Steven Holl, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building
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Steven Holl, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building
Language
eng
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videorecording
Main title
Steven Holl
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897769439
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Originally produced by Checkerboard Film Foundation in 2008
Runtime
31
Sub title
the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building
Summary
Generally acknowledged as one of the most artistically-minded architects practicing today, Steven Holl completed, in 2007, a museum considered the apex of his 33-year career: the Bloch Building for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Here, Holl designed a linear series of subterranean galleries from which luminous, sculptural shards of channel glass, which he calls "lenses," emerge from the earth along the eastern edge of the original, 1933 Beaux-Arts museum. In this enlightening visit, Holl takes us through the galleries where contemporary art is displayed beneath curving vaults admitting daylight, a tour which effectively demonstrates the convergence of space, time, and architecture
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live action
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