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Polshek served 15 years as the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He received his undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University , and his master of architecture degree from Yale University . He was also a Fulbright/Hayes fellow in Denmark .

Polshek's firm, founded in 1963, is best known for its renovations and expansions of public buildings. Polshek himself is unusual among top-tier architects for taking the position that architecture is more craft than fine art, and that architects have some measure of social responsibility.


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