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DA N T E | T E L E S C O P E _H O U S E

. . . a pure reflection

Toward a MOVE|MEANING ARCHITECTURE > an Architecture of Ideas; or, on the Problem of FORM and CONTENT in ART.

An built-essay in the relationship between architecture and painting, this project spanned five years. It began in 1991, while I was teaching at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and it was completed in 1996 while I was teaching at the University of Virginia. Its title, an important expression of the underlying mental structure of the work, underwent subtle transformation during the process, though without relinquishing reference to the essential thematic duality involving architecture's relationship to literature and astronomy. In addition to the final form, "(D)Ante|TELESCOPE House," arrived at mere hours before the project was photographed by Yukio Futagawa for publication in the international journal Global Architect Houses 51 (Spring 1997), which involved "erasing" the "D" from the Monolith Mural the morning of the shoot, earlier titles include "Dante|Telescope House^zlowe"(which superscripts the owner's name) and simply "Dante|Telescope House."

DANTE/TELESCOPE HOUSE won the 1995 "Blue Ribbon Award for Excellence in Architecture" from the New Jersey State Chapter of the American Institute of Architects

--the highest award obtainable. Were it not for the courage, intellectual camaraderie, and commitment to seriousness of purpose and excellence on the part of my unique client, I would not have had the opportunity, which too few architects are ever afforded, to discover and express my own untrammeled artistic voice. To begin to find in architecture the freedom and purity of expression that I have found in painting. Thank you, David.

39 00 29.81 North Latitude |.77 01 39.22 West Longitude | Silver Spring, Maryland

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