My Dots for Monday, August 06, 2007

David Byrne went and toured Philip Johnson’s famous architectural “Glass House” and wrote up a very detailed response to what he saw and experienced there.

Quoted: The repetitive minimalist patterns — the grass, the carpets, the little ripples on the (round) pool, the dappled light — it all seems like one very considered vast modernist artwork, or stage set, as if to say that modernism doesn’t stop at the door of the museum or at a building’s edge. It’s a way of remaking the world.