Architecture
Divya Rao Heffley, Research Associate, Photography Department | March 26, 2012
As a research associate in Carnegie Museum of Art’s photography department, I am in the process of exploring the museum’s future photography initiatives. Thanks to CMU’s CREATE Lab, I was recently able to borrow a high-tech GigaPan EPIC Pro system, which can combine hundreds or even thousands of photographs into a single detailed panorama. With the help of many able…
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Raymund Ryan, curator of architecture | February 3, 2012
Installation for Maya Lin is proceeding apace in the Heinz Architectural Center. James Ewart from Maya’s New York studio is here for a few days to help coordinate things, including this installation of a new work envisioned specifically by Maya for Pittsburgh. Pin River – Ohio (Allegheny & Monongahela) is a depiction in stainless steel pins of the Allegheny, Monongahela,…
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Tracy Myers, curator of architecture | October 7, 2011
A few weeks ago, my colleague Marilyn Russell, CMA’s curator of education, and I were in Rome to participate in a conference. Of course, like cultural tourists from the world over, we visited the Pantheon—the domed, porticoed monument built c. 118–128 CE that has inspired architects for literally centuries. Despite—or probably because of—its decrepitude, the Pantheon took our breath away….
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Justin Hopper | July 1, 2011
Architect Joseph Victor Vanderbilt’s 1926 drawing of the Marquette National Bank in Minneapolis, currently on view in the Heinz Architectural Center (HAC) at Carnegie Museum of Art, is loaded with gorgeous period detail. From the Art Deco eagle motif crowning the building, to the ornate clock hanging over its entrance and the Gatsby-ish fur coats and Model T Fords of…
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Justin Hopper | May 23, 2011
Gaze into one of German artist Candida Höfer’s wall-sized photographs, and you’ll see ornate, sometimes anachronistic structures: the immense, book-lined walls of a monastic library in Prague; the Modernist gyres of a Brazilian contemporary-art museum; the taxidermy trophy mounts adorning the walls of a Portuguese baroque palace. (Höfer’s photographs are on view for one final week, through May 29, as…
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Justin Hopper | March 10, 2011
For decades, some of the greatest artists have drawn on the cathartic, frequently illegal, street art practices of youth to create new visions of urban and suburban life. Young French artist Cyprien Gaillard’s peculiar vandal’s past—setting off fire extinguishers around the Modernist housing blocks and brownfields of Paris—might not seem to have the same artistic promise as Banksy’s graffiti. But…
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March 3, 2011
To French artist Cyprien Gaillard, the Modernist tower blocks of St. Petersburg are like medieval structures, and the hordes of young men whose fight clubs savagely pummel one another among them resemble 18th-century battlefield paintings. In his etchings and the video Desniansky Raion, all presented as part of You Are Here: Architecture and Experience at the Heinz Architectural Center of…
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