
THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURYIV
NJPAC
LUCENT CENTER
NJPAC LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES CENTER
FOR ARTS EDUCATION BUILDING FACADE
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Pentagram (est. 1972), Designers
New York, New York, USA
2001
The Lucent Technologies Center for Arts Educa-
tion in Newark, New Jersey, is an arts education
school affiliated with the New Jersey Perform-
ing Arts Center (NJPAC). Directly adjacent to
the NJPAC site, the school’s masonry edifice
was originally constructed in the early 1940s
and covers an area of about 30,139 square feet
(2,800 sq m).
By painting the building’s exterior white
and covering it with bold inline letterforms,
Paula Scher (b. 1948) ...