COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Nelson Fine Arts Center
Image View:
General view of the ASU Music Building, by Frank Lloyd Wright foundation (1971)
Creator:
Antoine Predock (American architect, born 1936)
Location:
site: Arizona State University (Tempe, Arizona, United States)
Location Note:
51 E 10th St.
Date:
1985-1990 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Modernist; Modern; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
performing arts center
Work Type 2:
art museum
Classification:
architecture
Material:
concrete
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; contemporary (1960 to present); Education; Performing arts; educational
Description:
The design of the arts center, containing a museum, theater arts and dance departments involved a special attitude toward the desert - much more than simply imposing the building program on the quasi-urban university site. The harsh and relentless desert presence in Arizona is often denied; the prevailing tendency (in terms of development and attitudes toward public architecture) is to convert the desert into a midwestern oasis, to tame the desert.
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Three
Identifier:
1A1-PAT-NFA-C3
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Nelson Fine Arts Center
