Steven Holl : the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building, Kansas City, MO / produced by Checkerboard Film Foundation ; produced by Edgar B. Howard ; directed and edited by Tom Piper.
Special features include: tour of studio models with Steven Holl (25 min.); interview with Marc F. Wilson, director, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (25 min.); project credits.
Summary:
"Generally acknowledged as one of the most artistically-minded architects practicing today, Steven Holl has just completed a museum considered the apex of his 33-year career-- the Bloch Building for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Here Holl designed a linear series of subterranean galleries from which luminous, sculptural shards of channel glass, which he calls 'lenses', emerge from the earth along the eastern edge of the original, 1933 Beaux-Arts museum. In this visit, Holl takes us through the galleries where contemporary art is displayed beneath curving vaults admitting daylight, a tour effectively demonstrating the convergence of space, time, and architecture"--Container.
Series:
A Checkerboard architecture series. Landmarks in 21st century American architecture
OCLC:
(OCoLC)309509608
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.