Word: maltzanã
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...talk coincided with the presentation of an exhibit of Maltzan??s work—“Lift,” which consists of the designs and models for these same projects—currently on display in Gund Hall...
...It’s fitting that [Maltzan] is needed to ‘lift’ us over these last few weeks,” joked Hubbard Professor of the Practice of Architecture Toshiko Mori in her introduction to Maltzan??s lecture...
...Maltzan??s current designs range from urban museums, like California’s Sonoma County Museum of Art, to a beach house along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu...
...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. Beyond this formal analogue, Maltzan??s geometry of bands and tubes follows after the work of Iraq-born and London-based architect Zaha Hadid. Its tubular forms recall Diller and Scofidio’s proposal for a new Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston...
...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 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?...