The Guthrie’s famed Amber Box—part of the Pohlad Lobby outside the ninth-floor Dowling Studio—is cantilevered 15 feet toward the Mississippi River.
AMBER ROOM Architect and Urban Sketchers president Amber Sausen would rather draw in the Guthrie Theater than take pictures BY AMY GOETZMAN PHOTOS BY ERIC MUELLER
In a museum in Singapore a few years ago, Amber Sausen, AIA, pulled out her sketchbook and began to draw the scene around her. A security guard came over to take a look. “Why don’t you just take a picture?” he asked. And then he jokingly insisted that she draw him. She did.
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ARCHITECTURE MN
May/June 2018