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As the exhibition’s title implicitly suggests, Maltzan’s current work responds to this issue of “groundedness.” He is creating an architecture that is trying to exist somewhere in between the effects of gravity and spatial aeronautics.
The architecture students at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) spend their time thinking about buildings—their form and their function. Only rarely do they turn their minds to the ground those buildings rest on, as “Lift,” the current exhibition at the...
The four projects in “Lift” depend heavily upon circulation patterns—the scripted movement of people through architecture. From his California experience, Maltzan seems to have picked up on one of the ubiquitous forms of movement through space: the sinuous ramps of freeway overpasses...
One of the most formally inventive of the projects in “Lift” is the Sonoma County Museum addition. Maltzan’s proposed design hugs the museum’s existing Neo-Classical building, located in the center of a long city block. The ends of...
But even though HLS Dean Elena Kagan promised to spruce up Harkness Commons, restrictions on the landmark piece of architecture will likely make it difficult for construction crews to make major changes the so-called Hark, which currently houses the HLS cafeteria and functions as the primary social space at...