The Center for Architecture opened last week the exhibition "Obdurate Space: Architecture of Donald Judd" curated and designed by Claude Armstrong, Architect and Donna Cohen, Associate Professor at the University of Florida, co-founders of Armstrong + Cohen Architecture. The exhibition present built and unrealized architecture projects by one of the most important artists of the 20th Century.
The exhibition reveals how drawing and building cultures impacted his art and suggests how his work has influenced contemporary architecture.
"Obdurate Space: Architecture of Donald Judd" details five selected built projects and proposals, both published and unpublished, for architecture designed between 1984 and 1994 within a threefold thematic framework, providing a window into Judd’s body of architectural work.
“In Marfa, Claude and I were known as ‘the kids’. If we were kids then, now we are grown, and with 30 years of perspective from continued work in architecture, we are ready to share and learn more about Judd’s architecture,” says Donna Cohen. “Our motivation for the exhibition, for the observations here, together with new models, drawings, and project descriptions, is to share Judd’s work in architecture with a wider public and to connect that moment to the present.”
The exhibition is open now through March 5, 2018.
