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T E L E S C O P E _H O U S E
- 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
Architecture 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
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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.
www.thearchitectpainter.com
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