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Not Architecture But Evidence That It Exists Lauretta Vinciarelli: Watercolors |
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Thinking about Lauretta Vinciarelli and the deeply rooted relationship between art and architecture in her life and work, I am struck by an interesting coincidence. In April 1997, the week before we opened an exhibition of Vinciarelli's watercolors at the Graduate School of Design, Rafael Moneo gave a lecture at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College and the subject of his talk was this very relationship between art and architecture. While once, and particularly in Europe, the arts (painting, sculpture, architecture) enjoyed a much more closely allied relationship (architects were artists and artists were architects), Moneo underlined the fact that there has been an increasing separation of architecture from the visual arts. Fortunately, through our program of lectures, exhibitions, and publications at Harvard we have the opportunity to bring the two closer together and to explore the many links and coincidences between them. This first monographic study of Lauretta Vinciarelli's work shows, indeed, how inextricably bound together art and architecture are for her and should be for more of us.
Vinciarelli's remarkable watercolors of imagined, and perhaps remembered, light, space, water, and landscape are clearly somewhat autobiographical in nature – reflecting not only her experience in and devotion to architecture in places like Southwest Texas and central italy, but also her upbringing and continuing life in Rome. Vinciarelli's visions are not meant to be built – while her subject matter is primarily architecture, the spaces she paints are not supported by a program or a function. As Vinciarelli herself has said, "The paintings are of spaces I know that look nothing like what I paint." With this book, we invite you to enter the extraordinary imagined spaces of Lauretta Vinciarelli.
Brooke Hodge
from the Foreword
Table of Contents
Foreword
Brooke Hodge
Dialogue in Second Person Singular for Lauretta
Joan Ockman
Watercolors
Not Architecture But Evidence That It Exists:
A Note of Lauretta Vinciarelli's Watercolors
K. Michael Hays
Landscapes of Vision
Diana Agrest
Catalogue of Watercolors
Biography and Exhibitions
Acknowledgments
Publication Title
Not Architecture But Evidence That It Exists: Lauretta Vinciarelli Watercolors
Year Published
1998, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Princeton Architectural
Press
Editors
Brooke Hodge
Format:
148 pages, images, essays, and drawings.
In the Frances Loeb Library:
General Collection: ND1839.V46 A4 1998
Special Collections: Rare ND1839.V46 A4 1998
Selected Bibliography:
Lauretta Vinciarelli, prepared by the Frances Loeb Library