2017 Azbee Awards of Excellence
Category
Print > Individual Profile > Mid Atlantic
Awarded to
Mimi Zeiger, Author; Eric Wills, Senior Editor; Robb Ogle, Art Director; Ned Cramer, Editor-in-Chief
Entry details
Robert Irwin’s Light-Filled Moment
Issue date (if applicable): 4/1/2016
Publication name: Architect
Publishing company: Hanley Wood
Website home page: http://www.architectmagazine.com/
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Our mission, across the converging universes of print, digital, and social media, is to inspire and educate an audience of emerging and established architects and designers, design enthusiasts, and allied professionals around these core values: design innovation, technical excellence, best business practices, and social and environmental responsibility.
Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:
Robert Irwin, whose studio is located in a “nondescript warehouse just north of La Jolla,” sculpts with light instead of marble or clay. Mimi Zeiger profiled the artist, now 87 years old, as he was in the midst of preparing for a big installation for the Chinati Foundation in the artistic oasis of Marfa, Texas. Irwin’s relationship with architecture and architects has been fraught throughout the years. But his persistence of vision yields spectacular results, whether it’s working within the constraints of the Hirshhorn Museum’s barrel-shaped Brutalist building and fighting with the museum bureaucracy over the engineering constraints imposed on his project (Irwin was proved right) or brawling with Richard Meier over the design of the Central Garden for Los Angeles’ Getty Center (Irwin was right again). Irwin is both a principled artist and a fighter, and Zeiger captures the full measure of the man in colorful detail, offering an authoritative assessment of his career.
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Robert Irwin’s Light-Filled Moment
Category
Print > Individual Profile > Mid Atlantic
Description
Publication name:
Architect
Company:
Hanley Wood
Winner Status
- Regional Silver Award
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