Heather Rowe: On Returning

Publication Type	Magazine Article
Year of Publication	2008
Authors	Neil, Jonathan T.D.
Source	Art Review
Number	No. 18
Pagination	120
Date Published	January
Key Words	Rudolph; Paul Marvin; 1918-1997; Micheels Residence; Westport; CT; 1972; Exhibitions
Abstract	Review of Heather Rowe's installation On Returning exhibited at the D'Amelio Terras, New York (9 Nov - 23 Dec 2007). Described as reconfiguring brutalist architect Paul Rudolph's now demolished Micheels House, the reviewer defines the work as an allegory of our fraught relationship to modernism's aesthetic legacy comparable to Monica Sosnowska's 1:1 (2007) displayed at the 2007 Venice Biennale's Polish Pavilion. Abstract from ARTbibliographies Modern
State	Connecticut

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On why he maintained a small practice
“Architecture is a personal effort, and the fewer people coming between you and your work the better. This keeps some people from practicing architecture, like the sculptor Nivola [Constantino Nivola, 1911-1988], who says “I cannot stand anybody coming between me and my work.” This is a very real problem, and you can only stretch one man so far. The heart can fall right out of a building during the production of working drawings, and sometimes you would not even recognize your own building unless you followed it through. If an architect cares enough, and practices architecture as an art, then he must initiate design; he must create rather than make judgments.” Heyer, Paul. Architects on Architecture: New Directions in America. New York: Walker, 1966

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