J. Joseph Bedford – Building Review, SANAA’s Glass Pavilion

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This piece is a Building Review of SANAA, Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2006) by Joseph Bedford.

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1:03
“What follows are some thoughts on the will towards the conceptual in architecture and the constant pull back towards the concrete and the real.”
2:14
“The glass pavilion can be considered a manifestation of the exhilarating transparency that Mies ahad only imagined half a century ago. […] SANAA attempt to use the near immaterial lightness of glass to overcome some of the realities of your typical architectural plan.”
4:51
“The image evoked in the mind is that of the logic of a classical plan, with its axial organization of rooms and the separation of interiors by the poché of solid masonry walls.”
8:32
“This is an architecture of spheres, bubbles, and capsules. One thinks of the discussion of modernity as a process of capsulization.”
11:03
“There’s a kind of dance that takes place all around you in the periphery.”
13:40
“The building’s own will to transcend the material realities that usually constrain the plan […] is always, in the end, constrained somewhere.”

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Joseph Bedford

Issue Editor

Joseph Bedford

Editor

Joseph Bedford

Founding Editor

Joseph Bedford

Announcer

Alastair Stokes

Building

SANAA, Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2006)

Reviewer

Joseph Bedford

Location

Toledo

Music

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