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Among the winners of the 2012 AIA Potomac Valley Design Awards, there are stylish and handsome new libraries by international luminary architects and a charter education campus confidently poking its asymmetrical mass of stacked red metal-clad blocks out over one of Washington’s broad, axial boulevards. It’s a far cry from the prim and pristine Neo-Classical design traditions that the city was founded on, and perhaps even further from the stoic Brutalist Modernism that dominated Washington architecture in the mid-20^th century.

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