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...historical- and use-value of the building. “Buildings, like other art works, are living things that grow and change,” Garber says. At the Carpenter Center, this has meant adding not only mundane needs not included in Le Corbusier’s original design??such as offices for a sufficient number of faculty members—but also finding ways to accommodate changing artistic practices...
...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 Maltzan’s design??a small theater on one end and a gallery at the other—are visually untethered and threaten to take flight like a bird. While the form is striking, the actual spaces seem less than ideal. Reminiscent of Dutch architect-celebrity Rem Koolhaas’ Second Stage...
...Lift” does not seem particularly interested in speaking to a broad audience. To the layperson, the exhibition might seem short on interpretation and heavy on architectural representation. For instance, the most compelling design??an expensive house along a much-politicized strip of beachside property, over which a battle is being fought regarding public access to the coastline—becomes an almost fetishized sculptural object. Other portions of the exhibit are left similarly unclear: the study models that Maltzan produced during his design process are left to speak for themselves and the oversize architectural cross-sections...
Fifty years ago, architects and campus pundits used phrases like “dream come true” and “consistently good in design?? to celebrate concrete, factory-like Harkness Commons, an opus of world-renowned modern architect Walter Gropius...
...artworks are displayed separately from photographs and plans of Sert’s own house, which are on view at the design school. For an architect so interested in synthesizing the plastic arts with architecture and urban design??especially within his own home—this curatorial move is a bit puzzling...