Cynthia Eardley

Gordon Matta-Clark
by Cynthia Eardley| ArtSeen
Asked to create a work for the Institute for Architecture and Urban Planning, Gordon Matta-Clark arrived with a BB gun and shot out their windows, intending to cover the broken glass with black-and-white photos of rundown houses in the Bronx.

Santiago Calatrava
by Cynthia Eardley| ArtSeen
The unusual and illuminating Santiago Calatrava exhibit at the Met, Sculpture into Architecture, offers a lively array of work by the contemporary Spanish architect who is also a lyrical draftsman and a sculptor. Calatravas sculpture and architecture are sometimes connected by a nearly one-to-one formal correlation and always by a distinct sensibility.

Zaha Hadid
by Cynthia Eardley| ArtSeen
Anyone disheartened by current world events should make it a point to visit the Guggenheim Museum’s 30-year retrospective of Zaha Hadid, one of the most prolific and inventive architects practicing today and the only woman to win architecture’s prestigious Pritzker Prize