Brian Sirman
Professor, Arts & Sciences Writing Program at Boston University
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Boston University
Brian Sirman is a professor of architecture within the College of Arts & Sciences’ Writing Program. He is also a Boston University alumni, having received his B.A., M.L.A., and Ph.D. from Boston University in History, Interdisciplinary Studies, and American and New England Studies (respectively).
Sirman’s scholarship focuses on 20th-century architecture and urbanism.
Currently, he is writing a book about the architectural history of Boston’s New City Hall.
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Boston’s Maligned City Hall Plaza Gets a Makeover
July 31, 2015
Wall Street Journal (subscription required) Brian Sirman, College of Arts & Sciences On a recent sweltering weekday, three young women did something unusual outside the imposing, concrete City Hall building here: They took a seat… Expert quote: “Unloved might be too tame a term.” View full article
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How Can City Hall Plaza Be Improved?
March 10, 2015
Radio Boston, 90.9 WBUR Brian Sirman, College of Arts & Sciences You can’t fight city hall, as the saying goes. But now, everyone has the chance to fight about what it looks like… Listen to the full interview here.
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The Downtown Crossing of Tomorrow
January 15, 2015
Chronicle, WCVB Brian Sirman, College of Arts & Sciences Progress at last… Watch the segment here.
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Who Lives Here: Downtown Crossing Crosses Over
May 16, 2014
Wall Street Journal Brian Sirman, College of Arts & Sciences It is only a seven-minute commute by foot from Boston’s Downtown Crossing… Read the full article here.
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Ugly Buildings We Love To Hate
December 7, 2012
Here & Now, NPR Brian Sirman, BU College of Arts & Sciences Boston’s City Hall, which has been called a “giant concrete harmonica,” seems to make it onto every list of hated buildings… Listen to the full interview here.
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Gerhard Kallmann, Architect, Dies at 97
June 25, 2012
The New York Times Brian Sirman, BU College of Arts & Sciences Gerhard Kallmann, the architect who, with Michael McKinnell, designed Boston City Hall, a hulking, asymmetrical… Read the full article here.
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The Birth of City Hall: Fifty years after a groundbreaking competition, two architects look back at the building that polarized Boston—and gave it a new lease on life
February 12, 2012
The Boston Globe Brian Sirman, College of Arts & Sciences “Whatever else you might think about it, Boston City Hall is an improbable building. Call it a giant concrete harmonica or a bold architectural achievement…” Read the full article here.
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