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...Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City announced that Yoshio Taniguchi had won a 10-entrant competition against world-famous architects like Bernard Tschumi and Rem Koolhaas to design the museum's $425 million overhaul. Around the world, art lovers and architecture mavens alike responded with a loud, bemused, "Who?" So unknown was the 67-year-old architect outside his native Japan that one confused well-wisher congratulated Terence Riley, MOMA's chief curator of architecture and design, on selecting "Tony Gucci," a nonexistent Italian architect...
...utopian civilization that sank beneath the waves more than 11,000 years ago (or so the legend goes) has spawned hundreds of books, placing it everywhere from Bolivia to Sweden to the Sahara. Here are five theories that have surfaced this year: NOVEMBER American architect turned mythologist Robert Sarmast announced last week that Atlantis lies off the southeast coast of Cyprus. Sarmast says sonar scans taken earlier this month show man-made structures on the seabed, and that the area matches many of the details of the site given by Plato. OCTOBER Maverick Russian astrophysicist Alexander Chechelnitsky asserted that...
...balmy afternoon last month, French artist Pierre Huyghe stood in front of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts with the building’s designer, the Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier. Double parked along Quincy Street sat a limousine and out of a nearby truck spilled props and other movie-making equipment. A militia of gaffers, grips, special effects technicians and camera operators matted down Harvard’s primly manicured grass as they scurried around, barking into walkie-talkies and cell-phones. It was a scene more fitting for the back lot of a Hollywood studio than...
Ultimately, the very process of designing the Carpenter Center—and the client-architect relationship from which it developed—may have had a more important impact on Harvard’s visual arts program than the completed structure itself. Indeed, a historical monograph published by the University to commemorate the building’s completion—Le Corbusier at Work, edited by Professor Emeritus and first director of the Carpenter Center, Eduard F. Sekler—places importance not to the building’s original forms, but on the process of the Center?...
Again, the parallels between Huyghe’s project and Corbusier’s experience at Harvard are germane. The result of a good deal of friction between architect and institution, the Carpenter Center, along with several of Sert’s own projects such as the Science Center and Peabody Terrace, ruffled enough conservative feathers that the University has since become less willing to engage in high-profile commissions involving cutting-edge architecture. In Huyghe’s film, playing opposite to the cherubic features of and jointed arms of Corbusier and Huyghe’s marionette likenesses...