Tadao Ando's first slide for Clark Art Institute lecture I was in Williamstown, MA, last weekend for the Wall Street Journal , to cover the Clark Art Institute's new Stone Hill Center , designed by Tadao Ando . I attended his pre-opening lecture---an hour-long illustrated tour of his various projects around the world. His first slide (above) related to his commission in Abu Dhabi for a Maritime Museum---one of four starchitect-designed cultural facilities planned for Saadiyat Island. I can't blog about Stone Hill until my WSJ piece appears. But I can tell you what Ando said about Abu Dhabi to an audience that included James Wood , president of the J. Paul Getty Trust (who, when he was director of the Art Institute of Chicago, had commissioned an Ando-designed Japanese art gallery); and Emily Rauh Pulitzer (whose Ando building for the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, received much critical acclaim). Here's what Ando had to say about Abu Dhabi: For me it's really a new mystery, because these [the people in the slide] are my audience and I don't know how to relate to them....The date of the announcement [of the museum project] coincided with the day when the soccer team from Abu Dhabi was supposed to compete for the World Cup, which has become a big event. So our presentation became secondary. The leader [said that he] would like to move our presentation to another day and invited everyone to watch the soccer game. Frank ...
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Tadao Ando's first slide for Clark Art Institute lecture I was in Williamstown, MA, last weekend for the Wall Street Journal , to cover the Clark Art Institute's new Stone Hill Center , designed by Tadao Ando . I attended his pre-opening lecture---an hour-long illustrated tour of his various projects around the world. His first slide (above) related to his commission in Abu Dhabi for a Maritime Museum---one of four starchitect-designed cultural facilities planned for Saadiyat Island. I can't blog about Stone Hill until my WSJ piece appears. But I can tell you what Ando said about Abu Dhabi to an audience that included James Wood , president of the J. Paul Getty Trust (who, when he was director of the Art Institute of Chicago, had commissioned an Ando-designed Japanese art gallery); and Emily Rauh Pulitzer (whose Ando building for the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, received much critical acclaim). Here's what Ando had to say about Abu Dhabi: For me it's really a new mystery, because these [the people in the slide] are my audience and I don't know how to relate to them....The date of the announcement [of the museum project] coincided with the day when the soccer team from Abu Dhabi was supposed to compete for the World Cup, which has become a big event. So our presentation became secondary. The leader [said that he] would like to move our presentation to another day and invited everyone to watch the soccer game. Frank ...