Center for Applied Computer Research, Las Promesas, Mexico (Section)
Emilio Ambasz
Argentine, born 1943
1975
A sectional architectural drawing in ink and photostat on acetate by Emilio Ambasz that slices through a proposed Center for Applied Computer Research to show how program, circulation, and landscape are organized in a single compositional gesture.
You notice a narrow, perfectly measured horizontal band of precise technical linework and tiny sectional rooms set against a large blank field, where the clinical drafting is unexpectedly softened by a faint, almost dreamlike colored arc that lends a lyrical touch.
The drawing exemplifies Ambasz’s 1970s approach of marrying rigorous modernist planning with landscape sensibility, helping to advance an ecological, human-centered strand of architecture and treating the drawing itself as an expressive design argument.
Medium
Ink and photostat on acetate
Dimensions
36 3/4 x 38 1/2" (93.3 x 97.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the architect
Accession
480.1990
Palette
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