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Published in Oris: Magazine for Architecture and Culture
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INSTITUT SUVREMENE UMJETNOSTI / INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Boston, Massachusetts, SAD / USA, 2006.
tekst / written by Rachel Levitt
fotografija / photo by Iwan Baan, Nic Lehoux, Floto+Warner, Peter Vanderwarker
The city of Boston isn’t known for trendy architecture or design risk-taking. As one of the United States’ oldest urban areas, Boston planners tend to err toward imitation. Even new buildings use masonry as a nod to the brick lofts of the nineteenth century found everywhere in the city. So it was not surprising that the Institute of Contemporary Art, despite its name, occupied a late 1800s brick fire station on a wide, busy street in the heart of the city. The ICA was an institute more than a museum, dedicated to contemporary art installations. It lacked a permanent collection, operating like a kuntshalle, offering temporary exhibitions supported by the local art community.
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