As one of Princeton’s few professional artists (painting, sculpture, and music) and an erstwhile architecture design professor I confess to being thrilled, in advance, by this anticipated new building and its visionary approaches.
The campus-centric placement, boldly perceptive by traditional academic standards yet overdue from a cultural perspective, rings true for me. It feels like the fine arts, as the creative face of our comprehensive liberal arts curriculum, is coming home to roost. Smack dab into the core, the heart, of campus life.
Like the words creation and composition, we can appreciate that design is both noun and verb. It represents both product and process. As such, this refreshingly circulatory museum design springs from a thoughtful and innovative thinking process that imagines and presents a living, breathing product. It’s an engaging spatial composition that will serve us beautifully through the inspired integration of its program & edifice, and its well-informed assimilation of interior and exterior characters.
Artists learn the importance of reserving judgment on a work in progress until it is finished. We wisely resist the premature reveal. Incomplete formulations, like an inspired senior thesis near the due date, need the synthesis of a final chapter and summary; ideally reviewed forthrightly with intellectual curiosity, interest, rigor, and respect.
Once handed in, I encourage us to read this dissertation all the way through before grading. Meanwhile, I am reminded of the old sculptors’ maxim: “Every pigeon is a critic ...”
As one of Princeton’s few professional artists (painting, sculpture, and music) and an erstwhile architecture design professor I confess to being thrilled, in advance, by this anticipated new building and its visionary approaches.
The campus-centric placement, boldly perceptive by traditional academic standards yet overdue from a cultural perspective, rings true for me. It feels like the fine arts, as the creative face of our comprehensive liberal arts curriculum, is coming home to roost. Smack dab into the core, the heart, of campus life.
Like the words creation and composition, we can appreciate that design is both noun and verb. It represents both product and process. As such, this refreshingly circulatory museum design springs from a thoughtful and innovative thinking process that imagines and presents a living, breathing product. It’s an engaging spatial composition that will serve us beautifully through the inspired integration of its program & edifice, and its well-informed assimilation of interior and exterior characters.
Artists learn the importance of reserving judgment on a work in progress until it is finished. We wisely resist the premature reveal. Incomplete formulations, like an inspired senior thesis near the due date, need the synthesis of a final chapter and summary; ideally reviewed forthrightly with intellectual curiosity, interest, rigor, and respect.
Once handed in, I encourage us to read this dissertation all the way through before grading. Meanwhile, I am reminded of the old sculptors’ maxim: “Every pigeon is a critic ...”