Geometry, surface and pattern: Islamic art wing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Design drawings Saunders' vertical studio project Saunders vertical studio students Additions Art museums Islam Student projects Wings The studio started by understanding organization principles of Islamic Art and Architecture. In order to move past the simple, symbolic, representations of Islamic Art and Architecture, the studio focused on the metaphysical, organizational and spatial characteristics that define its sensibility. A trip to NYC to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art helped the students in their proposals of an addition of similar scale on the opposite Southern side of the Museum. The program will contain exhibition, restoration, administration, archive and peripheral programs to support the Met's permanent collection of Islamic Art and Architecture. The proposal also required thoughtful landscape integration with the surrounding Central Park School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006) Bradley, Ben Carr, Ben Cisek, Alison Saunders, Andrew Images Digital Jpeg2000 2006 Spring semester Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Geometry, surface and pattern: Islamic art wing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Design drawings
Saunders' vertical studio project
Saunders vertical studio students
Additions
Art museums
Islam
Student projects
Wings
The studio started by understanding organization principles of Islamic Art and Architecture. In order to move past the simple, symbolic, representations of Islamic Art and Architecture, the studio focused on the metaphysical, organizational and spatial characteristics that define its sensibility. A trip to NYC to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art helped the students in their proposals of an addition of similar scale on the opposite Southern side of the Museum. The program will contain exhibition, restoration, administration, archive and peripheral programs to support the Met's permanent collection of Islamic Art and Architecture. The proposal also required thoughtful landscape integration with the surrounding Central Park
School of Architecture. (Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006)
Bradley, Ben
Carr, Ben
Cisek, Alison
Saunders, Andrew
Images
Digital
Jpeg2000
2006 Spring semester
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY