Tuesday, May 26, 2009
The All New Art Institute of Chicago - in 1988!
Doesn't anybody want to write a jingle for the opening of Renzo Piano's new Modern Wing?
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Doesn't anybody want to write a jingle for the opening of Renzo Piano's new Modern Wing?
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5 comments:
Unbelievable. Is it me, or doesn't this seem like a lifetime ago?
Or is from SNL?
Pretty cute jingle. Pretty awful time in American history for clothes.
Toward the end at 1:03 is the the special exhibits room our firm designed. The Guaguin exhibit was the first for the room. Kind of like going back a time machine.
I say we have a contest for a Modern Wing jingle! The wheels are spinning as I type.
OMG. What a riot! It must have been a compelling campaign because I know my entire family went to see that Gaugin show...with the disastrous result of my 3 year old sister falling asleep and falling off of my father's shoulders, resulting in a concussion and necessitating an ambulance...and then after they whisked her away, my mother and I continued with the exhibition! The only reason I remember specifically going to this "new" Art Institute. It was 1988 precisely! And indeed, what horrible fashion sense we had back then...perhaps it's a good thing nobody came up with a jingle this time...
One minute and forty-one seconds and not one mention of the Rice's architect - Hammond Beebe Babka. Instead the "skit" focused on the art and the resources of the AIC and how their project integrated new and old aspects of the museum's collection and its facility. The thought of an Exhibit of the new wing featuring PICTURES OF ITSELF could never have crossed their minds. The view of the new sculpture court was presented as entirely in scale and harmony with the view of the main stair (and, btw, with McKinlock Court). And most important, the Museum's lions and Michigan Avenue entrance remained the symbol of the Institution.
Things have indeed changed.
But not so much as we might imagine. It is the rare Architect who is truly respectful of context and precedent. And so, just as Mies tore into Henry Ives Cobb's domed, beaux-arts Federal Building, SOM is ready to demolish Mies IIT Test Cell, just as Renzo Piano........ You get the picture. Maybe we need a little of that 1988 jingly naivity.
If you build something new and save something old you have two things instead of one. And if one shows contextual respect for the other the two become greater than either alone. That simple. Too late for Henry Ives Cobb. Or Howard Van Doren Shaw. But maybe not too late for Mies' Test Cell. Move SOM's new construction across the street. Like the 1988 AIC clip says -- "past and present" and "old and new." This is not so difficult.
Let's just do it. This time together. Everyone could win. That's the jingle.
Don't blame Mies for the destruction of Cobb's courthouse. By the time Mies got the commission the GSA was determined to replace the courthouse, and for good reason. The court system had substantially outgrown the old courthouse and, from what older lawyers have told me, the courthouse was in very poor shape. The GSA had let it deteriorate badly.
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