Tadao Ando: Dubious in Abu Dhabi
Lee Rosembaum on CultureGrrl:
I can’t blog about Stone Hill until my WSJ piece appears. But I can tell you what Ando said about Abu Dhabi to an audience that included James Wood, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust (who, when he was director of the Art Institute of Chicago, had commissioned an Ando-designed Japanese art gallery); and Emily Rauh Pulitzer (whose Ando building for the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, received much critical acclaim).
Here’s what Ando had to say about Abu Dhabi:
For me it’s really a new mystery, because these [the people in the slide] are my audience and I don’t know how to relate to them…. [more on CultureGrrl: Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary]
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JJ is the co-founder of 5ft Creatives and is presently enrolled as a graduate student at the Yale School of Architecture.
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