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WON. ZAHA HADID, 53, avant-garde architect legendary for designs so extreme they rarely get off the drawing board; the prestigious $100,000 Pritzker Architecture Prize; in West Hollywood, California. Since the opening of the striking, Hadid-designed Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, last May, the Baghdad...
In explaining his housing choices, Lynch said his grandmother worked in Eliot and Winthrop Houses and he also favored their architecture.
Nisbet explained the difficulty many museums often face when trying to do architecture shows. He said that the emphasis in the exhibit need not necessarily be on the chairs themselves. Rather, they create windows into the architects’ larger plans and styles.
Schuldenfrei compares the resulting floating form to Salvador Dali’s surrealism. The Eames backdrop is not a photograph but a plan for a room. The walls, tables, lamps and chairs are all carefully planned elements, demonstrating that architecture is inside and outside, big and small.
Chair enthusiasts won’t want to miss this new exhibit at the Busch-Reisinger, which tracks the development of the chaise lounge from 1928 to 1955. The exhibit promises to examine “in a fresh way the now well-known tenets of modern architecture, from the...