This exhibit focuses on the concept of construction. Despite the recent downturn in the housing market, there is an upturn in the quantity and quality of commercial architecture in our city. We still have the box buildings, but the face of Anchorage is changing toward a mixture of colorful and unique design elements, combining spaces within spaces – parking, offices, residential living and retail co-mingled.
The work also reflects my experiences from this year’s travels to Turkey, Greece, Italy and the American Southwest. I wanted to convey my observations of the different aspects of relationship between architecture and the landscape; unfinished, torn down, bombed, excavated, expanded, cleared, antiquity, contemporary, or remodeled.
The ideas for “Blueprint” came from my visit to Santorini, Greece, where the city has been carved out of the cliffs from ages ago but now is an overpriced commercial metropolis for tourists. “New View” was influenced by the new Anchorage Museum Expansion lay out, and “Schematic Language” was influenced by landscape architecture plans and New Mexico culture.
I’m fascinated by the ways in which the built environment affects what we see and how we feel about our environment, no matter where we live and that it is our creative mark on the land.
- Kim Marcucci
