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Puppet Theater at Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts: Architecturally brilliant!
Posted in Architecture on 15 July 2009

harvard1 Puppet Theater at Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts: Architecturally brilliant!

All the world’s a stage… But this stage is so spectacular, unique and astounding that one wishes the world as of today seems to pale in comparison. The Puppet Theater that was specially created at Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the building looks as dazzling and out-of-this world as any other theater that one could conjure up. Designed by French conceptual artist Pierre Huyghe and Harvard assistant professor of architecture, Michael Meredith and a team of GSD students at the university, the modern puppet theater incorporates in its structure metaphorical identities of an egg, a seed, a tumor, an alien spacecraft, and Le Corbusier’s brain.
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