2024-11-22T00:45:47-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/4196901/american-frontier-s-first-starchitecture J. James R. 2011-04-26T01:40:47-04:00 >2011-04-27T17:48:53-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6o/6o8imnikc3ie6qll.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>"It is interesting here in the frontier: Who were they trying to impress?"</p></em><br /><br /><p> Warren Gerds, of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, shares with us a building that might otherwise be relatively insignificant if it was elsewhere in America. The Fort Howard Hospital is a Late-Federal-styled building in Allouez, Green Bay, Wisconsin. The story is what makes the building particularly interesting.</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> "Starchitecture" is usually defined as buildings and follies wrought-to-being by a computer-scripted composition littered with fantastical shapes from cathartic fractals to abstracted crystalline shards to yet-to-be-named distended-and-distorted spherical blobs. But, "starchitecture," as another concept seems to transcend both style and time if one were to define "starchitecture" purely in terms of architecture that embodies emotion, speculation and alienation; architectural objects that essentially should not or could not exist referentially to their neighbors and time periods.</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p> Fort Howard Hospital is one of those objects. The hospital was built in 1834-1835 at the...</p>