The Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery presents newly commissioned photographs by James Ewing alongside models of significant 20th-century buildings made during the 1990s and early 2000s by Columbia GSAPP students of Professor Kenneth Frampton. On view February 9 through March 10, 2017. ***Stagecraft: Models and Photos*** explores the synergy between architectural models and photography and the renewed relevance of model photography as a wellspring of architectural invention. It includes 14 photographs by James Ewing, with multiple interpretations of six models representing buildings by Le Corbusier, Norman Foster, Gerrit Rietveld, Jørn Utzon, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Peter Zumthor. “This exhibition allows us to revisit a set of models that have long peppered the halls of our School,” said Columbia GSAPP Dean Amale Andraos. “They serve as an integral part of Professor Kenneth Frampton’s pedagogical project to teach both architecture and architectural history. While offering a critique of the ways in which architectural history is normally taught, the process of building models allows students to access knowledge about architecture through making it again.”
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