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The EDGE series was established as a platform for exploring ideas on art and architecture. This book, the third in the series, documents the design and construction of the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at University College Cork, told through lyrical and illuminating essays and stunning photography. "The Lewis Glucksman Gallery is one of those buildings that can neither be captured in photographs nor properly summarised in words. Adolf Loos once said he was proud that his (and, by implication, other great) buildings could not be understood in photographs, and the same is true here. You need to visit it. To understand the experience, one follows a promenade architecturale. This starts with one of the main routes of the university that cuts straight beneath the underbelly of the galleries. Le Corbusier used a similar trick, driving a major pedestrian route through the Carpenter Centre at Harvard, but there the effect is to turn visitors into voyeurs; at Cork it democratically opens up the building to anyone. What is really remarkable about this building is that the more one looks, the better it gets. That is a sign of complete assurance and maturity. Miles Davis once said that what most artists do is to make things complex, but what great artists (and, of course, this included him) do is to make complex things appear simple. This is one of those rare buildings that fits that definition of great art. To cite two giants of the twentieth century here is not incidental. This building belongs to the canon of modern buildings." - RIBA Stirling Prize citation, 2005
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- PublisherGandon Editions
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0948037393
- ISBN 13 9780948037399
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages96
- EditorO'Regan John
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