Lauretta Vinciarelli

Lauretta Vinciarelli
Born	1943 Arbe,Italy
Died	August 3, 2011
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	La Sapienza University, Rome
Occupation	architect, artist, educator

Lauretta Vinciarelli (1943–2011) was an artist, architect, and professor of architecture at the collegiate level.^[1][2]

Background and education

Born in Arbe, Italy, Ms. Vinciarelli was the daughter of Alberto and Annunsiata Cencioni Vinciarelli. The family moved to Rome where she grew up, and her father was an organist in the St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican, and other churches, and her mother was a teacher.^[3] She studied architecture at Sapienza University of Rome, and was accepted to the Ordine degli Architetti di Roma e del Lazio (the Italian Board of Architects). Ms. Vinciarelli practiced architecture in Rome before emigrating to the U.S. in 1968. In 1993, she married Peter Rowe, a distinguished professor of architecture at Harvard University.

Career

Education

After moving to the U.S., Ms. Vinciarelli taught architecture design studio for many years at various schools, including Rice University in Austin, Texas, University of Illinois, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Columbia University, City College, and The Open Atelier of Design and Architecture (OADA), a non-accredited design school founded by Giuseppe Zambonini in New York.^[4][5][6]

Architecture

During the 1980s, Ms. Vinciarelli collaborated with Minimalist artist Donald Judd in New York City and the American Southwest.^[7] Marfa, Texas became a research site for theoretical postmodern architectural proposals such as Marfa II Project, Marfa, l978 and untitled drawings 1981. ^[8][9] Ms. Vinciarelli used a rigorously inductive methodology to define and integrate fundamental architecture and design components.^[10][11] On the topic of the Marfa "hangar and courthouse" study, Ms. Vinciarelli stated her aim was "to form a fabric." ^[12] In 1984, Ms. Vinciarelli and Mr. Judd entered the winning entry for the Kennedy Square Providence, Rhode Island competition. Their project draws upon Ms. Vinciarelli's earlier work, including her 1977 landscape architecture proposal for a system of urban gardens, commissioned by the Regional Administration of Puglia, Italy. In 1986, Ms. Vinciarelli was awarded Artists Fellow in Architecture by New York Foundation for the Arts.^[13]

Art

From the early 1980s until the end of her life, Ms. Vinciarelli created evanescent watercolor-and-ink studies of hypothetical architectural spaces. Her work has been analyzed by scholars and critics, including Ada Louise Huxtable and K. Michael Hays in Not Architecture But Evidence That It Exists. ^[14][15] Ms. Vinciarelli belonged to an esteemed influential group of contemporary paper architects, along with Raimund Abraham, John Hejduk, Gaetano Pesce, Lebbeus Woods, and Aldo Rossi. She created powerfully inspiring, hand-crafted images of topological space on paper considered a distillation of traditional and historical references.^[16] She incorporated water elements to extend the essence of architecture through reflection.^[17] On painting architecture, Ms. Vinciarelli has said, The architectural space I have painted since 1987 does not portray solutions to specific demands of use, it is not the space of a project; at least not a project as the rational answer to a program. ^[18]

Collections

Ms. Vinciarelli's artwork resides in many private collections and the holding of prominent cultural institutions. Ms. Vinciarelli's paintings and drawings are part of the permanent collections of the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, Columbia University's Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Art Institute of Chicago.^{[19][20][21][22][23]} A collection of work by Ms. Vinciarelli, including the luminous Orange Sound series is held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A 2015 exhibition at MAXXI, the National Museum for the Twentieth Century Arts in Rome, dedicated to architecture included abstract watercolors of Lauretta Vinciarelli, a collection donated by the artist’s family.^[24][25]

Museum and archive collections

Lauretta Vinciarelli's work is part of major international collections.

• A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna ^[26]
• Senza titolo

medium/ media: 3 tecnica mista su cartoncino

dimensions: each 44, 5 x 57 cm., 1975

• Hangar + Courtyard,

medium. media: 3 inchiostro e tempera su carta lucida

dinemsions: each 39, 5 x 64 cm. 1980 ; 1980

Classification: architectural drawing

Collezione Francesco Moschini e Gabriel Vaduva, 2002

• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
• Atrium in Red, 1992 ^[27]

Medium/media: watercolor and ink on paper

Dimensions: 30 in. x 22 3/8 in. (76.2 cm x 56.83 cm)

Classification: architectural drawing

Collection: SFMOMA Accessions Committee Fund, 1977

• Night #6, 1996 ^[28]

Medium/media: watercolor and ink on paper

Dimensions: 30 in. x 22 5/8 in. (76.2 cm x 57.47 cm)

Classification: architectural drawing

Collection SFMOMA: Accessions Committee Fund: gift of Frances and John Bowes, Emily L. Carroll and Thomas W. Weisel, Doris and Donald Fisher, Maria Monet Markowitz and Jerome Markowitz, Madeleine H. Russell, and the Modern Art Council, 1997

• Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
• Garden Structure; Untitled,[perspective], 1986 ^[29]

Medium watercolor on heavy paper

Measurements H: 13 1/2 x W: 16 3/4 in. (34.29 x 42.55 cm)

Collection: The Heinz Architectural Center, gift of the Drue Heinz Trust

• National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC ^[30]
• Long Horizon II [center]. Dimensions: 74 x 102.7 cm (29 1/8 x 40 7/16 in.), 1995;
• Long Horizon II [left]. Dimensions: 74 x 104 cm (29 1/8 x 40 15/16 in.), 1995;
• Long Horizon II [right]. Dimensions: 74 x 104 cm (29 1/8 x 40 15/16 in.), 1995 ^[31]

Medium: watercolor and pastel over graphite on heavy woven paper

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Ferris, Rowland and Eleanor Miller, and Eric and Ellen Somberg, 1998

Accn. N° 1998.26.2 ; Accn. N° 1998.26.2 ; N° 1998.26.3

• Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
• Orange Sound, project, 7 watercolor series, 1999 ^[32][33]

Medium: graphite, and color ink on paper

Dimensions: each 30 x 22" (76.2 x 55.9 cm)

Gift of Mrs. Gianluigi Gabetti Purchase Fund

Annc. N° 1417.2000.1, Annc. N° 1417.2000.2, Annc. N° 1417.2000.3, Annc. N° 1417.2000.4, Annc. N° 1417.2000.5, Annc. N° 1417.2000.6 1417.2000.7

e-card ^[34]

• International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) ^[35]
• Lauretta Vinciarelli Art Work

11 untitled tempera drawings on boards

IAWA Small Collections; Special Collections 1907-2013

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Exhibitions

The work of Lauretta Vinciarelli has been published and exhibited in solo and group shows at galleries and museums around the world.

Solo shows

• 1978: Lauretta Vinciarelli: Projects 1973-78. Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies; Wave Hill, New York, N.Y.^[36]
• 1980: Lauretta Vinciarelli: Processo Metafora. Progetti e disegni, 1974-1980. A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy.^[37]
• 1981: Lauretta Vinciarelli: Projects 1980-81. Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.^[38]
• 1982: Lauretta Vinciarelli: Projects. Princeton University Graduate School of Design, Princeton, N.J.
• 1992: Lauretta Vinciarelli: Red Room, Water Enclosures, and Other Unfolding Spaces. GSAPP, Columbia University, N.Y.^[39]
• 1992: Lauretta Vinciarelli: Rotte Raume. Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria ^[40]
• 1996: Spatial Reverberations: Watercolors by Lauretta Vinciarelli. National Building Museum, Washington ^[41]
• 1997: Reflections: Watercolors by Lauretta Vinciarelli. Gund Hall Gallery, Harvard Graduate School of Design ^[42]
• 1999: Incandescence: Watercolors by Lauretta Vinciarelli. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA ^[43]
• 2002: Lauretta Vinciarelli: Intimate Distance. Henry Urbach Architecture, New York City ^[44]
• 2012: Clear Light: The Architecture of Lauretta Vinciarelli. City College of New York, N.Y.^[45][46]

Group shows

• 1975: Goodbye Five: Work by Young Architects. Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York, N.Y.^[47]
• 1975: Architectural Studies and Projects. Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.^[48]
• 1977: Drawing for A More Modern Architecture. The Drawing Center, New York, N.Y.^[49]
• 1977: Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective. Brooklyn Museum, N.Y.^[50] and Hayden Gallery, :::MIT.
• 1978: Architectural Drawings. Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA.^[51]
• 1979: Elements of Architecture. Sperone Westwater Fisher Gallery, New York, N.Y.^[52]
• 1980: Art by Architects. Rosa Esman Gallery, 70 Greene Street, New York, N.Y.^[53]
• 1980: Creation and Recreation: America Draws, Jugend Hall, Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, Finland ^[54]
• 1980: Desire As Archetype: The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition/ Late Entries. ^[55]
• 1980: Young Architects: an Exhibition at Yale School of Architecture. Gallery of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT.^[56]
• 1985: Project for Palmanova. Venice Biennale of Architecture: 3rd International Exhibition of Architecture ^[57]
• 1991: Contemporary Architectural Drawings. Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and Arthur Ross Gallery at Columbia University, NY ^[58]
• 1997: Summer Group Show. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, N.Y.
• 2001: Inside Out: New Perspectives on the Heinz Architectural Center’s Collection. The Heinz Architectural Center Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA.^[59]
• 2002: Luminous Void Volume of Light,series (2001). Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.^[60][61]
• 2002: Italian Architecture Signs Since The War. Dalla Collezione Francesco Moschini, A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, Florence, Italy.^[62]
• 2003: Visions and Utopias: Architectural Drawings from the Museum Of Modern Art. New York, NY; Museum of Finish Architecture, Helsinki, Finland ^[63][64]
• 2004: Watercolor Worlds : Lauretta Vinciarelli, et al. Dorsky Gallery, New York ^[65]
• 2004: Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art, New York. National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.^[66]

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