The Seattle Central Library (Seattle, USA), OMA and LMN from Seven Portraits (Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, Pin-Up Fall Winter 2014/15 Supplement), 2018
David Hartt. The Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation; Eloise W. Martin Legacy Fund.
Hartt is among a generation of artists who emphasize the elements that make architecture: the architectural details, or what defines one project or architect from another; our daily experience of a building, which is rarely a view of a building in its entirety; and how buildings are inhabited.
Altamira Residence (Rosario, Argentina), Rafael Iglesia from Seven Portraits (Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, Pin-Up Fall Winter 2014/15 Supplement), 2018.
David Hartt. The Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation; Eloise W. Martin Legacy Fund.
This exhibition is organized around Hartt’s recently acquired Seven Portraits (Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, Pin-Up Fall Winter 2014/15 Supplement), a portfolio of photographs of seven iconic buildings designed by contemporary architects, including Seattle Library by OMA, the Fundação Iberê Camargo by Alvaro Siza, and 111 Lincoln Road by Herzog and de Meuron.
Bloch Building, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, USA), Steven Holl Architects and BNIM from Seven Portraits (Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, Pin-Up Fall Winter 2014/15 Supplement), 2018.
David Hartt. The Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation; Eloise W. Martin Legacy Fund.
The installation juxtaposes Hartt’s photographs with drawings, renderings, and models produced during the design process of each building, revealing a dichotomy between the lived experience of a building’s inhabitants and the ideal intentions and objectives originally developed by the architect for the building.
Sponsors
Support for this exhibition is provided by the Butler-VanderLinden Family Fund for Architecture and Design.
