“Drawn from the Source: The Travel Sketches of Louis I. Kahn”

“Drawn from the Source: The Travel Sketches of Louis I. Kahn”

Amy Reichert Architecture & Design, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1996

Description

This exhibition design comprises a contemplative space, enhancing the quiet monumentality of Kahn’s drawings, as well as reflecting his own preoccupations with symmetry, walls, and their openings. The four trips within the show were arranged chronological in intimate roomlike spaces, color-coded to evoke an atmosphere appropriate to their location: storm blue for New England, saturated yellow for Greece, etc. The color band, which narrows one’s focus within the tall gallery and on which all works were hung, was continuous throughout a single trip, and broke between trips, instilling a sense of travel through time and space. Windows framed important works, allowing them to be seen twice, in two contexts, as well as allowing views of a “peopled” space.

Collections: Communication Graphics: 18 (1997)
Repository: Denver Art Museum
Discipline: Environmental graphic design
Format: Exhibit

Credits

Design firm
Amy Reichert Architecture & Design
Exhibition designer
Amy Reichert
Photographer
Nick Whitman
Typeface
Gill Sans
Client
Williams College Museum of Art
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