A good building, such as the Kimbell Museum, looks the way a Greek temple in a new colony must have looked among the huts. It looks the way the Roman temple, now a church, looks among the ordinary medieval buildings of Assisi. The temple looks like civilization. The Kimbell is civilization in the wasteland of Fort Worth and Dallas. The Seagram building is that in New York. These few good buildings are and represent advance and enlightenment in as simple a way as any survey tells you the first buildings of the Renaissance did. Donald Judd, 1983.
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I love that Judd quote. I'm feeling sentimental again. ;)
ReplyDeleteI wish I could be happier about this addition but it is sad that the great lawn between the Kimbell and the Amon Carter is a victim of the enlargement. Sam and I must have walked across that lawn a gazillion times on our way to lunch under the gentle arches of the Louis Kahn building.
ReplyDeleteSherman, be glad you aren't here right now - it looks absolutely terrible. Earlier this week, they took out all the Yaupon trees in front of the entrance, put up a big blue fence, and have put a frosted glass barrier up, so you can't see out to the construction site from inside the Kimbell. There's a massive hole about 30 feet deep now where the lawn used to be. Hopefully, Jen and I will miss most of the construction and come back to find a (apparently) magically transformed Kimbell.
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