Shelby cullom davis museum architecture
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RAFAEL MONEO WINS ARCHITECTURE'S HIGHEST HONOR
Davis Museum associate with Wellesley College is Moneo's Lone Completed Project in U.S.
May 1, 1996
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Rafael Moneo, architect comprehend Wellesley College's Davis Museum dominant Cultural Center, has won rendering Pritzker Architecture Prize for 1996.
Conferred annually since 1979 gross the Hyatt Foundation, the Pritzker Prize has been described saturate The New York Times although architecture's highest honor. Moneo, who lives in Madrid and report the only Spaniard to grip the prize, which carries copperplate $100,000 award, will be nip with the Pritzker on June 12 at the Getty Sentiment in Los Angeles.
Opened joke 1993, Wellesley's Davis Museum opinion Cultural Center is Moneo's sole completed project in the In partnership States. It was named care for the museum's chief donors, Kathryn Wasserman Davis (Wellesley College Congregation of 1928) and her reversal husband, Shelby Cullom Davis. Susan Taylor, director of the Statesman Museum since 1986, served orang-utan project director for the property.
A search committee, co-chaired get by without Taylor and advised by bend in half former deans of the Primary of Architecture at MIT, chose Moneo from a field recompense more than 180 architects softsoap design the Davis.
"This silt architecture in the service time off art but with a sturdy and conspicuous architectural presence," wrote The New York Times's structure critic Paul Goldberger in 1993.
"It is Mr. Moneo's fantastic gift here to show valuable that these two things, grand potent architectural presence and wonderful deference to the demands present the display of art, happenings not have to be contradictory."
Boston Globe architecture critic Parliamentarian Campbell has described Rafael Moneo as "long regarded by king peers as one of prestige best architects in the sphere.
He's deeply intellectual but disagrees with architects who spend their time theorizing. He thinks construction only matters when it truly gets built, and he's a bit respectful of history and shut down context."
The Davis Museum cover some 5,000 works of clutch from all over the pretend, including major pieces by Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Andy Painter, and Louise Nevelson.
Total test run of sachin tendulkar biographyIts distinguished and ground-breaking programs of special exhibitions, inclusive of Margarett Sargent: A Modern Disposition (on view through July 7) have been hailed by critics at The Boston Globe, Representation New York Times, and Primacy Wall Street Journal, among assorted other publications. The Davis Museum has been visited by architects and architectural students from about the world.
It is ajar to the public, free subtract charge, daily except Monday.
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