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Louis Kahn: A Memoir

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Simone Withers Swan
The memorable moments began in 1967. I was living in Manhattan when the New York State Council on the Arts, one of my clients, assigned me to write up the booklet for its first annual awards of which Louis Kahn was a recipient. I was to meet and interview the ten awardees. Eventually a ceremony would be held honoring them, my descriptive brochure handed out, and mailed to legislators in Albany who funded the council. By 1968, New York State was dedicated to supporting the arts, pressured by Manhattan.
I chose to investigate Kahn first. He was my hero in the contemporary world of architecture. Kahn was the star with students and faculty at Columbia University’s architecture school where I used to lurk and later lectured on Hassan Fathy. It was with intense anticipation that I traveled from Pennsylvania Station to Philadelphia to meet the grand architect for the very first time. At the 4th Street station, a rush of childhood memories came ....

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Editorial: At 50, Rothko Chapel still mystifies

Editorial: At 50 years old, Rothko Chapel still mystifies and reveals Houston
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Interior of the Rothko Chapel with new skylight. The chapel reopened after a 18-month renovation in Oct. 2020. It celebrated its 50th anniversary in February 2021. Photo courtesy of the Rothko Chapel.Paul Hester, Photographer
When you first enter the Rothko Chapel, the 14 nearly black paintings hung in the octagonal room are mystifying. It’s dark, quiet and somber. What is the point? What kind of chapel has no cross or candles or altar?
That mystery is worth experiencing in person. The chapel, which turned 50 last weekend, was born at a time of turmoil the Vietnam War, protests for racial justice, political division that is all too familiar today. If you have ever wondered how Houston manages to hold itself together with its bubbling stew of peoples, the Rothko is one answer. ....

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Moody Center for the Arts' spring season celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Rothko Chapel

Moody Center for the Arts spring season celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Rothko Chapel
Sam Gilliam, installation view featuring Five Pyramids, 2020, wood, aluminum, die-stain and lacquer (foreground) and Washi Paper Purple/Black, Washi Paper Green and Washi Paper Green/Gold, 2020 (background, left to right). Acrylic on washi paper. Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery © 2021 Sam Gilliam / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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.- Alison Weaver, the Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director, announced today that the Moody Center for the Arts spring program will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Rothko Chapel by presenting a unique group exhibition and original programs in recognition of this important milestone in the history of Houston and the arts at Rice. The season will honor the legacy of John and Dominique de Menil by highlighting the influence the Rothko Chapel has had on both artists and the public since opening in 1971, with ....

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We read 12 books about how modern Texas was built

Six older books help set the stage for understanding that Texas take on modernism.
Urban planning takes a backseat to discussions of architecture in most of these Texas books.
A tiny minority of our state’s residents are old enough to recall the era that predated the modern Texas city.
Before towers, freeways and, especially, air conditioning.
Before top-rated universities, hospitals, museums and libraries.
Before up-to-date restaurants, parks, theaters, festivals and concert halls.
And well before all the digital technologies that make these modern things and others hang together these days.
It was not until 1950 that the U.S. Census recorded more Texans living in urban areas than in the rural ones, 30 years after America as a whole turned that demographic corner. (Pause to think about that.) So all that urban modernity that we take for granted today came rushing at Texans with great speed, mostly during the past 75 years. ....

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