"Designed by the architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, the center's cavernous galleries and outdoor areas have been shaped and proportioned to let Calder's kinetic mobiles move slowly in the natural airflow of the building, and to allow visitors to walk through and around his large-scale sculptures, or "stabiles," in the changing hues of year-round open-air daylight. "The pieces transform as you move around them and through them and with time," says Jason Frantzen, a partner at Herzog & de Meuron who led the design team."
""It started without a very clear description of what the project should be. It was more of a description about what it shouldn't be, which is a conventional museum," says Frantzen. Calder Gardens is a project of the Calder Foundation and overseen by the Barnes Foundation, which operates its own world class art museum nearby. Both entities stress that this new art space is not a museum, but a place where visitors can have evolving encounters with an ever-changing selection of Calder's works."
Calder Gardens in Philadelphia is an artist-specific building complex and garden designed to present Alexander Calder's kinetic mobiles and large-scale sculptures as intended. Architectural design by Herzog & de Meuron shapes cavernous galleries and outdoor areas to encourage natural airflow so mobiles can move slowly and visitors can walk through and around stabiles under open-air daylight. The space deliberately departs from conventional museum display by prioritizing movement and evolving encounters. The project is led by the Calder Foundation and overseen by the Barnes Foundation and aims to present rotating selections of Calder's works for dynamic visitor experiences.
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