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Leaky roofs, collapsed walls, mega debts: when Donald Judd, art’s master minimalist, tried architecture
['Oliver Wainwright']
The Guardian
“Art does not.”View image in fullscreen He hated most architects … Judd with Jeff Kopie in his Marfa architecture office in 1993.
He railed against their misunderstanding of materials, their shallow fakery, and slammed their work as being “derivative of art”.
The interior has been staged just as Judd left it, his rows of pencils and French curve-rulers preciously arranged like sacred relics.
View image in fullscreen Ex-grocery store … Judd’s Marfa office is now open for tours.
View image in fullscreen ‘Our approach is to show, not tell’ … inside the Marfa architecture office.