Architect Edward Durell Stone was both celebrated and scorned, and led a life that was both triumphant and embittered. Among his iconic projects are The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. His son, Hicks Stone, discusses the controversial figure in 20th-century architecture, and his new biography, Edward Durell Stone: A Son's Untold Story of a Legendary Architect.

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Over the years I have looked at a lot of architecture, beginning as a graduate student at Cranbrook Academy of Art. When I consider the body of Stone's work I sometimes think that maybe he was bi-polar, doing some excellent work on one hand and some terrible work on the other. The Pepsi headquarters in Purchase, NY being an example of some of his best work and the Huntington Hartford Museum in NYC an example of his worst.
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