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It’s as if the building is only just enough there to enclose space, enveloping it in a soft, diffused light. disguise an innovative below-the-floor air-conditioning system. It’s as if the building is only just enough there to enclose space, enveloping it in a soft, diffused light. It is the experience of light, considered from the onset, that is so utterly palpable in the Piano Pavilion. This is the light of nuance and subtlety, the kind of light essential not only to creating fine art objects, but also to understanding them. An architect with a mystic bent might say that the designer of any great museum must consider light as a material, and it is delightfully handled at the Piano Pavilion. Joe Self, AIA, is principal of FIRM817 in Fort Worth.
40 Texas Architect
3/4 2014