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Jen Renzi -- Interior Design, 5/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

The Calder Foundation has selected an architect, the Pritzker Prize-winning Tadao Ando, to design its new museum, which will be dedicated to three successive generations of sculptors who shared both a name—Alexander Calder—and a medium. Ando's "interest in industrial materials, and in the transforming qualities of light and space are beautifully in keeping with those of my grandfather," says foundation director Alexander S.C. Rower, grandson of the youngest Calder. The chosen site is at the heart of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, which showcases public works by all three artists: the large, colorful mobile at the entrance to Philadelphia Museum of Art by the renowned 20th century master; the elegant Swann Memorial Fountain at Logan Circle by his father, Alexander Stirling Calder; and the statue of William Penn surmounting City Hall, by grandfather Alexander Milne Calder.