“As the United States approaches its Semiquincentennial, TIME asked 25 architects, urban planners, thinkers, and other experts to each nominate a building or monument that they believe says something special about the nation at this moment.”
For the article, Pratt Institute School of Architecture Dean Quilian Riano selected Hunter’s Point South in Long Island City, New York. Alum Annabelle Selldorf, BArch ’85, chose The David Geffen Galleries at LACMA in Los Angeles, designed by SoA alum Peter Zumthor.