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Ando // Reed Hilderbrand @ MASS MOCA During the run of Tadao Ando: Architect the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams will be featuring a related exhibition devoted to the landscape philosophies of Tadao Ando and Reed Hilderbrand Associates, the Watertown, Massachusetts, landscape architecture firm selected to implement the landscape component of the Clark expansion plan. Ando is renowned as a master builder sensitive to the relationship of edifice to natural environment, and has often iterated his ideal of utilizing architecture to mediate a harmonious meeting of man and nature. "Light adds drama to beauty, and wind and rain through their action on the human body give color to life," Ando has written. "Architecture is the medium that enables man to sense the presence of nature." For this installation at MASS MoCA, Ando has created a multimedia explication of his belief in the ability of nature—sky, light, wind, and water—to animate the seemingly unyielding materials—concrete, wood, glass—of his buildings. Reed Hilderbrand's reputation rests on their ability to integrate responsible care for the land with the needs of modern life. The firm, led by architects Douglas Reed and Gary Hilderbrand, has worked on a number of projects in western New England, including Simon's Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington and Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont. Their work in the Berkshires has consistently emphasized the area's rural character and history, emphasizing and enhancing the types of ponds, trails, meadows, and scenic vistas that distinguish this region. A selection of Reed Hildebrand's work will be featured at MASS MoCA. The Clark has been MASS MoCA's most active partner since 1996 and has lent support to numerous exhibitions, permanent and temporary installations, and graduate internships. The Clark's collaboration with MASS MoCA is part of a broad picture of institutional dedication to advancing scholarship and advancing the public understanding of art in all its forms. 

Desert Island Pictures Gallery Talks Thursdays, September 12, October 10, November 14, December 12
12:30 pm In honor of Tadao Ando: Architect, the popular lunchtime "Desert Island" lecture series will focus on architecture. Clark curators will discuss paintings that explore the relationship of space and light inside and outside of buildings in the Clark collection. On the second Thursdays in the fall, the speakers will discuss which paintings they would want with them if they were "stranded on a desert island." Visitors are welcome to bring a bag lunch or purchase lunch in the Clark café before or after each half-hour talk. The talks are free with gallery admission. September 12
Claude Lorraine's Landscape with the Voyage of Jacob
Michael Cassin, Curator of Education October 10
Giovanni Boldini's Crossing the Street
Sarah Lees, Assistant Curator of Paintings November 14
Gerrit Adriaensz. Berckheyde's Church of Saint Cecelia, Cologne
Michael Cassin, Curator of Education December 12
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's At the Concert
Michael Cassin, Curator of Education 

Gallery Talks Sundays, October 6, 20, and November 3
3:00 pm This fall the Clark will offer three gallery talks on the Tadao Ando: Architect exhibition. The talks will not only introduce visitors to the show but also emphasize the shared philosophy behind Ando's architectural designs and his conception of the installation of the Clark exhibition.

Lectures and Clark Conversation Friday, September 27, 5:30 pm Lecture: "The Topographic Architecture of Tadao Ando"

Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University.

Frampton is the author of the catalogue essay from the 1991 Ando exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is currently writing a monograph on Ando's work. Sunday, October 13, 3:00 pm Lecture: "Architecture, Museums, and Authenticity"

Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for the New Yorker magazine

Goldberger,who formerly wrote for the  New York Times, is the author of several books, including the recently published  Manhattan Unfurled. Saturday, November 16, 4:00 pm Clark Conversation: "Expanding Museums in the Twenty-First Century"

This conversation will focus on the issues facing museums and their expansion in the century ahead.
Susanne Stephens, special correspondent to Architectural Record, will moderate a discussion with Clark trustee James N. Wood, director and president of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Clark director Michael Conforti.

Special Events Friday, September 27
5:30 pm Members of the general public are invited to a special preview of Tadao Ando: Architect on Friday, September 27. At 5:30 pm Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, will give the talk "The Topographic Architecture of Tadao Ando." Frampton is author of the catalogue essay from the 1991 Ando exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is currently writing a monograph on Ando's work. The lecture will be followed by a reception and a viewing of the exhibition.

Light is the origin of all beings. Light gives, with each moment, new being and new interrelationships to things, and architecture condenses light to its most concise being. The creation of space in architecture is simply the condensation and purification of the power of light.

— Tardo Ando