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SCHOOL OF ART & ART HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

7/19/2010:

 

SCHOOL OF ART & ART HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

Iowa City, IA, United States, 1999-2006

 

PROGRAM: Art and art history building, including facilities for sculpture, painting, printmaking, graduate studios, administrative offices, gallery, and library

CLIENT: University of Iowa

SIZE: 70,000 sf

CONSTRUCTION COST: $16,100,000

STATUS: completed

 

The new School of Art and Art History is a hybrid instrument of open edges and open center; instead of an object, the building is a "formless" instrument. Implied rather than actual volumes are outlined in the disposition of spaces. Flat or curved planes are slotted together or assembled with hinged sections. Flexible spaces open out from studios in warm weather. The main horizontal passages are meeting places with interior glass walls that reveal work-in-progress.

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