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Earth-Cloud House, project

Earth-Cloud House, project

Raimund Abraham
American, born Austria. 1933–2010
1970
A large graphite architectural drawing proposing an 'Earth-Cloud House' that fuses strict geometric planes with soft, cloudlike forms to imagine a dwelling suspended between ground and sky.
What strikes you is the delicate, almost ethereal pencil work: crisp, planar geometry hovers above and cuts into a billowing, organic mass, set against a quietly hatched horizon that makes the composition read like a floating fragment of landscape.
Made in 1970, the work exemplifies Raimund Abraham's poetic, visionary approach, using drawing to expand architectural representation into expressive, speculative territory that blurs structure, sculpture, and atmosphere.
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
34 3/8 x 53 1/2" (87.3 x 135.9 cm)
Classification
Credit
Gift of Philip Johnson
Accession
19.1980
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