Point to something
Prohibition on entering
Referent withdraw
The traces themselves are on the verge of becoming meaningless.
“The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.” – Charles Sanders Peirce
Limestone skin
Dramatic enclosed
Two-story atrium
The Chrysler Museum exists to enrich and transform lives through experiences.
“The new atrium, Huber Court, would quickly become the Chrysler’s grand community living room, hosting countless Museum functions and other events.” – Ashley Grove Mars
Solid void
Rather fluid
Interconnected
Imagery frames a portion of the world, bringing it into focus while simultaneously excluding everything else.
“The margins of the text are not simply the edges. They are also the places where the text fails to contain itself.” – Jacques Derrida
Benefit of doubt
Somehow consistent
With knowledge
And then there’s the way the light hits the building, casting shadows and creating depth.
“The whole of science is based on this principle: that nature can be chopped up into little pieces as long as the chopping is done in a way that preserves all the information content.” – Richard Feynman
Windows of perception
Elements withstood
Fresh eye
An attempt to break free from the limitations of perception and sense the things anew.
“There is no natural light in the human brain which is born of the body alone, but by the body is confined to narrow boundaries… The more knowledge is darkened the more imagination shines” – William Blake
Multivoiced skyscraper
Of the streetscape
Architectural utterance
The windows offer glimpses into the building interior while silently broadcasting presence to the street below.
“The utterance lives by being answered, by being immediately included in the ongoing dialogue.” – Mikhail Bakhtin
Pursuit of experience
Consumption of signs
Assumptions and realities
The image of the staircase can be interpreted as a microcosm of the Baudrillardian concept of simulacrum.
“Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.” – Jean Baudrillard
Texture touch
Inanimate object
Interaction creation
Objects exist as an experience in relation to ourselves and our surroundings.
“The world is not a collection of objects, but a totality of lived experiences.” – Mikel Dufrenne
Inside out
Geometric planes
Ordered coordinates
Sometimes the best art in an art museum is the architecture.
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” – Le Corbusier
Force of change
Objective world
Rather evolving
Existence is constantly striving to develop itself.
“The dialectic is the movement of thought from one stage to another, in which each stage is both a negation of the previous stage and a step towards a higher stage.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel