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...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...
...middle age. In response to what may be an impending identity crisis, the University has thrown the concrete building a series of birthday celebrations. Following on a recent historical exhibition about the building is this “puppet opera,” which weaves together narratives of the building??s commission with Huyghe’s own experience working with a university patron given to bureaucratic excesses...
...previous films and multi-media installations have touched on the legacy of Corbusier-inspired Modernism—and, most often, upon its idealistic failure—Huyghe, who is in his early 40s, was, like most of the students who inhabit the Carpenter Center, born only after the building??s completion. In response, his film at once reconstructs the story of the building??s conception while layering on his own experiences of working on this most unusual commission...
...street and wraps through the building, was to become a link for students between the historic Georgian Yard and a planned expansion beyond Prescott Street, in the direction of downtown Boston. In the years since, however, Harvard has expanded in other directions, geographically and academically, in part marginalizing the building??s dual purpose of providing pedestrian connection and bringing the visual arts to the center of the Harvard experience...
...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’s conception. It is from...