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December 1 2003 - January 19, 2004
The recent work of Michael Maltzan is constructed through a web of
visual construction lines that transpose the building into a new optical
field. These visual lines entangle forms, wrap and buffer the building
from context, while paradoxically grounding them in their sites. These
buildings show a move far away from the Miesian, or Corbusian horizontal
break in the building—ground relationship. Instead, Maltzan
internalizes the distortions in response to site and makes self-referential
forms out of them. Maltzan’s recent work challenges contemporary
architecture’s inattentiveness to context, and outlines the
terms of a new geography: a fluid ground, internalized context, a
centrifugal vision, and an embracing sky.
- Hashim A. Sarkis, Aga Kahn Professor of Landscape Architecture and
Urbanism in Muslim Studies
Michael Maltzan was the Fall 2003 Eliot Noyes
Visiting Design Critic at the Harvard University Graduate School of
Design.