Folk Remedy.

The founder of Luce et Studio Architects, the architect is known for buildings that are resolutely modern but dependent on a high level of craft. Luce says her work on the Mingei - her first museum - was all-consuming, given her roles as fundraiser, architect, and designer at a range of scales. BUILDING TYPE STUDY 1,036 CULTURAL BUILDINGS CULTURAL BUILDINGS SIX YEARS AGO, in a remarkable display of how far a determined architect can guide a client, Jennifer Luce decided that the Mingei International Museum, a San Diego institution that collects and displays folk art from around the world, needed a top-to-bottom renovation - and then persuaded its leaders to spend some $55 million on the project. [Extracted from the article]