Artists and architects

摘要

Recently, I was one of 63 artists invited to submit credentials to design the portico for the Pines Dining Hall at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. The Blue Ridge Mountains are a backdrop for the school and I imagined the undulating sculptural form of a tensile fabric canopy playing off the surrounding landscape, so I asked Elizabeth and William Murrell of Fabric Structures Inc. to join me. We were selected as one of three finalist teams to prepare a more detailed proposal. The project's committee-composed of director Jean McLaughlin, artists, and staff, as well as architect Abie Harris and landscape architect Sam Reynolds, who are planners for the campus-sought teams composed of artists and designers to offer innovative approaches and articulate this outdoor public space.