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...performance space (and folly) in which Avant- Garde Director Peter Brook could present his 9 1/2-hour epic, The Mahabharata. The firm of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates has implanted modern plumbing and electrical systems but otherwise has maintained the look of desuetude: chipped plaster and peeling paint, exposed beams and brickwork. The Piranesianism is a bit coy, maybe, but more affecting than much standard spic- and-span preservation...
...underlying structure for the new complex is already in place, and Vickery said work will begin soon on the brickwork and windows...
...code as a painter, were all about the weight and noise and feel of things he grew up with as a well-off son of a watermill owner in Suffolk, on the River Stour. "The sound of water escaping from Mill dams . . . willows, Old rotten Banks, slimy posts, and brickwork. I love such things," he wrote to a friend. "They made me a painter (and I am grateful) . . . I had often thought of pictures of them before I had ever touched a pencil...
...River Stour. He lived a life of blameless bourgeois obscurity, alternating between London and the Suffolk countryside with his wife Maria Bicknell, who bore him seven children. At 45, he wrote to a friend: "The sound of water escaping from Mill dams ... willows, Old rotten Banks, slimy posts, & brickwork. I love such things ... I should paint my own places best-Painting is but another word for feeling. I associate my 'careless boyhood' to all that lies on the banks of the Stour. They made me a painter (and I am grateful) ... I had often thought of pictures...
What the trained eye gathers in one of Kahn's buildings is no historical inventory; it is more like a dialogue between assumed equals past and present based on first principles. Kahn's use of brickwork, often stretched in warm massive curves, goes back to medieval Siena. The immense cylinders, arcs and courts at Dacca were inspired by the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. At times, Kahn's forms possess a superb and primal practicality. The Ahmedabad dormitories, for instance, with their stairs set in a thick vertical silo flanked on either side by dark openings...