2024-05-13T11:24:45-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150091646/burst-of-space-blair-kamin-reviews-tadao-ando-s-new-chicago-art-venue-and-ando-corbusier-opening-show Alexander Walter 2018-10-19T13:54:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/09/09a61177dd65de02682fe22ab95ab3d7.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Amid today&rsquo;s polarizing political noise, Wrightwood 659 offers a comparable oasis. The building greets the visitor with a refurbished facade adorned with arches, festoons and other Beaux-Arts details. But the decorous facade turns out to be a mask. [...] Upstairs are clean-lined, contemplative galleries &mdash;&ldquo;white boxes with a twist,&rdquo; you might call them &mdash; filled with a trove of material about Corbusier and Ando.</p></em><br /><br /><p><em>Tribune</em> architecture critic Blair Kamin shares his impressions from the opening night at <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/120843/tadao-ando" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tadao Ando</a>'s new <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1205235/wrightwood-659" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wrightwood 659</a> art venue in Chicago as well as its inaugural exhibition <em><a href="http://bustler.net/events/11608/ando-and-le-corbusier-masters-of-architecture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ando and Le Corbusier: Masters of Architecture</a></em>&mdash;and the review is full of praise: "The space is so good that it compels you to set aside the contradiction of a self-professed anti-elitist architect laboring once more in the service of a wealthy man," Kamin writes.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ef/ef6ce34b5a69727d9e8eade374f1f0f1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ef/ef6ce34b5a69727d9e8eade374f1f0f1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>&copy; Jeff Goldberg/Esto</figcaption></figure> https://archinect.com/news/article/150088479/tadao-ando-designed-wrightwood-659-art-venue-to-open-in-chicago-with-exhibition-on-ando-and-le-corbusier Alexander Walter 2018-09-28T14:36:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c5/c5c77c271f923737cd6354e0a9d1be51.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood is getting an exciting new art place, and it's been designed by none other than <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/99728/tadao-ando" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tadao Ando</a>. Wrightwood 659 is a major transformation of a historic building from the 1920s and will be dedicated to exhibitions on architecture and on socially engaged art.<br></p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e7/e7a2dffb58f047a5df3c1d1b2cbc7e5b.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e7/e7a2dffb58f047a5df3c1d1b2cbc7e5b.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>&copy; Jeff Goldberg/Esto</figcaption></figure><p>The place has an impressive lineup of exhibitions and other events, including the inaugural show <em><a href="http://bustler.net/events/11608/ando-and-le-corbusier-masters-of-architecture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ando and Le Corbusier: Masters of Architecture</a> </em>with more than 100 drawings, photographs, and models by Le Corbusier as well as 106 small models of his architectural works crafted by Tadao Ando's students. The show opens on October 12th and will run through December 15th. <br></p> <p>A day before the opening, there's also a chance to see Tadao Ando <a href="http://bustler.net/events/11607/artist-talk-tadao-ando" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">discuss his work</a> at the Art Institute of Chicago's annual Butler-Vanderlinden Lecture on Architecture, co-presented this year with Alphawood Foundation Chicago.</p> <p>On November 8th and 9th, Wrightwood 659 will host the accompanying symposium<em> <a href="https://wrightwood659.org/programs/symposium/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ando's Le Corb...</a></em></p>