Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, Oblique elevation
1962 · Graphite on tracing paper
11 1/2 x 36 3/4" (29.2 x 93.3 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Edward Larrabee Barnes
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Transformations in Modern Architecture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Architecture of Museums
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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Built in USA: Post-War Architecture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953
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Architecture in the New York Area
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1952
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Edward Larrabee Barnes was an American architect whose practice, spanning from the 1950s through the early 2000s, helped define postwar modernism through a refined integration of landscape, material, and geometric form. His buildings, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the IBM offices in Manhattan, exemplify a disciplined approach to site-responsive design that rejected ornament in favor of clean lines and carefully calibrated proportions. Barnes worked with concrete, steel, and glass to create institutions and corporate structures that balanced modernist austerity with a humanistic attention to spatial experience and natural light. His influence extended across institutional, commercial, and residential commissions throughout North America.
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