This past week the artist Robert Irwin was at UVA to accept the Thomas Jefferson Medal of Architecture (affectionately, a "TJ Medal"). I don't know a lot about Irwin's work, so this week was a good chance to learn more about his ideas and the impact he has had. His lecture was mostly taken from his 1985 book Being and Circumstance, where he talks about how non-objective art changed the way we see space-- less as foreground and background, positive/negative, and more as a field. He calls his work "site-conditioned," meaning that it arises from a relation with the site, and seeks to deepen people's perception of the phenomena of the site. Here is one of his pieces at UC San Diego, Two Running Violet Vs.
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