Architects, particularly the kind who win big international prizes, tend to dress in black and use words like ‘fenestration’ when they mean ‘windows’ and ‘planar’ when they mean ‘flat.’ Peter Q. Bohlin, who just won the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects, is an amiable, bearlike fellow whose wardrobe gets no closer to black than a navy blazer, and who talks about his work in more direct terms. ‘This is loaded with subtle shit,’ he said the other day, as he walked through his newest project, the retail store for Apple at the corner of Broadway and Sixty-seventh Street.
— Paul Goldberger, “Apple Polishing,” The New Yorker
