It’s Curtains for PLANT: a CENTER 19 publication features one of our projects
Fond as they may be of curtain walls, architects tend to dismiss actual curtains as fussy decoration, unworthy of their consideration. To expose the narrow-mindedness of this view, Michael Benedikt, Distinguished Professor of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin, curated the 2013 exhibition Curtains, at U Tex’s CENTER 19. It featured PLANT’s Lenticular Curtain, an installation created in 2012 for the Breathtaking: Constructed Landscapes exhibition at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre. CENTER 19 has published Curtains, a captivating book containing essays by Benedikt and other design scholars, revealing project descriptions by the artists—including PLANT’s Lisa Rapoport—and handsome photographs of the installations.
“We wanted to explore a fusion of architecture and landscape that obliterates the threshold between the two.” – Lisa Rapoport
“Curtains for Architecture will not mean ‘Curtains for Architecture.’ Quite the opposite. An openness to curtains and their kin will help rejuvenate the art.” – Michael Benedikt