DANIEL LUTZE
                                
AMERICAN LBGTQ MUSEUM
Beaux Arts architecture continues to be emblematic of a period of high style in New York, but carries with it the immense darkness of Stanford White’s sexually abusive actions. In our divided world, the age of imposition and grandeur must finally give way to something new. We must look to new icons – ones who have consistently subverted cultural and aesthetic norms.
    Understanding the unique opportunity to make a sociopolitical statement provided to the project by virtue of being an addition of the New York Historical Society, Undress expresses the aesthetic, tactile, formal, and even emotional properties of fabric in its aechitecture, creating disfigured spaces through walls like layered curtains in plan and “stitching” the facade to the concrete plate structure in the wall section.
     The facade exhibits a deconstruction of the museum’s ionic columns and pilasters into a gestural fabric composed of milled sandstone, whose brilliant warm colors serve both to create a welcoming atmosphere for patrons and to reflect the warm brick and brownstone of the adjacent townhomes.

 


602 Studio / Instructor: Kevin Canon
In collaboration with Muxiao Lei
Published in Pressing Matters XII

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