COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
High Museum of Art
Image View:
General view of entry doors, from terrace looking east
Creator:
Richard Meier (American architect, born 1934)
Location:
site: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Date:
1981-1983 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Modernist; Modern
Work Type 1:
art museum
Classification:
architecture
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; contemporary (1960 to present); Art museums
Description:
In these buildings, as well as in the houses, he clearly articulated public and private zones in an attempt to clarify and redefine a sense of order, and this articulation is expressed again in the structure. For example, the High Museum of Art is a complex composition of structural forms, cylindrical and rectilinear, with the entrance and public areas defined by large expanses of windows while the gallery walls are solid, white surfaces. The relationships of solid and void are emphasized by the whiteness and by the play of sunlight and shadow on the interlocking geometric volumes. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Two
Identifier:
1A1-MR-HM-C1
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
High Museum of Art
