New ArtCast on Architecture + Design!

Check out our latest episode of Henry ArtCasts featuring excerpts from a conversation with Sam Chermayeff and Lucy Styles of SANAA studio and a discussion with Lynn Fleming and Kristin Waldon of the Henry’s Graphic Design Department!

Designing the Museum

Design plays a complex role in the viewer’s experience of contemporary art. Both the architectural and graphic design of the space and words surrounding works in a museum require an intricate process in order to balance the artistic, interpretive, and aesthetic components within an exhibition. In conjunction with the architecture exhibition Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, this ArtCast focuses on the design process through two conversations. The first includes excerpts from a discussion between Sam Chermayeff and Lucy Styles of SANAA Studio and Ken Tadashi Oshima, Guest Curator of the exhibition and Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington. The second half of the episode features the Henry Art Gallery’s graphic designers Lynn Fleming and Kristin Waldon, who discuss their work at the museum and design elements created for the exhibition Dawn Cerny: We’re all going to die (except for you).

http://www.henryart.org/audiovideo/DesigningtheMuseum.mp3

SANAA. 21^st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.  1999-2004.  Courtesy of SANAA.  Photo credit: Yukio Futagawa.

 

SANAA.  Toledo Museum of Art, Glass Pavillion.  Image from Tropolism.