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Barack Obama and architecture: A pair of video clips

By Christopher Hawthorne
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In my piece on Barack Obama, inaugural crowds and shifting notions of public space -- which has been posted here and will be published in tomorrow’s Calendar section -- I mention a pair of widely shared campaign-trail videos having to do with Obama and architecture.

One follows here and another after the jump:

--Christopher Hawthorne

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Christopher Hawthorne

Christopher Hawthorne was the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times from 2004 to March 2018. Before coming to The Times, he was architecture critic for Slate and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. He is the author, with Alanna Stang, of “The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture.” Hawthorne grew up in Berkeley and has a bachelor’s degree from Yale, where he readied himself for a career in criticism by obsessing over the design flaws in his dormitory, designed by Eero Saarinen.

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