questions to reading

1. What were Richard Serra's goals for the installation?
Wanted it to be its own, to bring another revealance to it, and to redirect the way people thought about the architecture.

2. Define the field Serra is referring to when he states that his sculptural elements need to create "enough tension within the field to hold the experience of presence in the place". How do you define "experience of presence"?
The tension is how the weight is perceptually accessible and so it the physical scale and mass of the sculptures. And the experience of space is how the sculpture is to mix in with gallery but not blend inor be one with the gallery.

3. How do the columns, pedestal condition, octagonal space and vertical axis challenge Serra?
the columns where so huge that they gave off an enormous sculpture presence, and the octagon had a different vertical volume that without actually being an pedestal represented itself as a pedestal. The pedestals read as a visual volume that was above the ground plane. The vertical axis changed with the ceiling elevation had to recieve more attention then some other places.

4. What is effective in terms of the shape, scale and number of the two square elements in the Duveen Galleries?
Serra found that circles only imitated the columns and that he settled on rectangles because he wanted you to be able to see its top plane and he also wanted it to read as a mass. He decided on full scale to help people understand the volumes of the relationship to the volume of space. He used two elements to keep from isolating his work from the gallery.

5. Describe the differences and similarities between Barnett Newman's and Richard Serra's work.
Newman's lack complexity, they do not define a mass or hold volume, and the space just floats through. Newman also works with past memories.
Serra tries to create experiences through the use of his scale, volume, and planes.

plaster structure grids

books sections

themes: roof that encompass
composition: rooms that define/ space that leaks up into the light

sitemodel diagram

memory and section grids