Sep 7
2010
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House and the Philip Johnson Glass House are both properties of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. These two historic buildings and the architects who created them inspired Modern Views, a project that invited architects, artists and designers to submit work inspired by their encounters with Farnsworth House, the Glass House or the modernist dialogue created between them. You can view a sampling of Modern Views work online @ http://www.sothebys.com/modernviews
Which Modern Views artwork captures your imagination, or, in your own experience, when has an encounter with architecture inspired your work?
I have a long list of favorites from Modern Views, but this week I have fallen in love with Gary Hilderbrand’s “Almost Nothing.” As an architecture writer who also has published some poetry, I think a lot about architecture’s correspondence with nature. A tree is an architectural form. Our bodies are also structure. The way architecture captures space and light can be a metaphor for emotion. All of these ideas are to be found in this composition.
Friday, September 10 at 1:54pm
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Emily Leibin Ko
Communications + Digital Media, The Glass House
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It’s hard to choose one, but I think Al Taylor’s artwork, Sideffects of Danish Doorway, also featured on the cover of the Modern Views book, does an excellent job of this. It uses casual lines to convey ideas of transparency, depth and scale, and invokes the spirit of both the Farnsworth House and the Glass House.
I also love the cheeky references of Demian Repucci’s Philip vs. Mies posters (also the moderators’ avatar!) which pokes fun at the ongoing dialogue between these two great figures of modern architecture.
Wednesday, September 8 at 12:46pm