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Article: Frank Stella as Architect.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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A forthcoming bandshell in Miami highlights the sculptural inventiveness that Frank Stella, once a champion of the flat picture plane, has recently brought to bear on public architecture.
The architecture world remembers the 1960s as a decade in which three of the most renowned masters of the modernist movement died within four years of each other: Le Corbusier in 1965, Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius in 1969. At the time there seemed little reason, apart from a shared Minimalist angularity, to mention Frank Stella in the same breath with any of them. While he had already made a name for himself in the world of the visual arts, it was confined to the realm of ...