Pedestrian City project, Hypostyle Courtyard (Perspective)
Roger C. Ferri
American, 1949–1991
1979
A large pastel imagining of a ‘Hypostyle Courtyard’ where closely planted, twisting green columns topped with fan-like purple foliage create an immersive, walkable architectural room.
You are struck by a rhythmic, almost musical field of palm‑like supports—ribbed, spiraling trunks and feathered canopies in rows that dissolve foreground into background, producing a decorative, shimmering play of green and lavender.
Bridging architectural drawing and landscape fantasy, Ferri transforms ancient colonnade logic into a late‑20th‑century proposal for pedestrian urbanism that treats structure as pattern and public space as immersive experience.
Medium
Pastel on paper
Dimensions
44 3/8 x 44 5/8" (112.7 x 113.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
National Endowment for the Arts Project Funds
Accession
23.1980
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