JKR takes a field trip to the Museum of Art

opening up the great stair hall

checking out a serious rendering

Ten of us took a little field trip over to the Museum of Art to check out the new Frank Gehry exhibit Making a Modern Classic on view til September 1st.  The anticipation has been growing over some of Frank Gehry's new proposed designs which would cut a large chunk out of the iconic stairs.  We waded through the exhibit, passing through gigantic sectional models and proposed courtyard cutouts. Overall, I think our crew was impressed with his schemes.  We talked it over afterward over some drinks in the new pop up garden at the Oval and took a vote.  The verdict is out: we had three votes for the proposed cut out, and six votes against the cut out, and one member abstaining for no known reason. We all pretty much agreed that all the other plans should definitely be done.

view under the main courtyard

gigantic sectional model

post game deliberations

 

New Barnes Foundation

my personal favorite

Izzo Here: I was feeling inspired last week, and I wanted to get to the Barnes before the year was over.  If you've never been, you should make it a point to go.  I would say this is the best piece of architecture our city has gotten in a long time (our projects excluded of course).  Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have been some of my favorite architects since I first saw them give a lecture my junior year of college.  I am sure this is their highest profile building, and they did not disappoint.  Check out the snaps.  Not bad for a pretty cloudy day.  Oh and the images looked good even before the instagramming.

Zaha Hadid @ the Perelman

Izzo Here: I've been wanting to go to this exhibit since it was announced that Zaha was going to be in town, and this weekend I finally made some time to go.  I can't say I am an uber fan of Zaha, but you gotta respect her as a designer; She's got it going on.  The exhibit at the Perelman wasn't really that great though. It felt like you walked into the space, and five minutes later you saw everything they had in the exhibit. I will say the light fixtures and the table in the foreground were pretty cool.  If you get a chance to go to the Art Museum though, the Zoe Strauss exhibit is really cool.