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BUILDING
 
 
Rothko Chapel
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DESIGNER
 
 
Mark Rothko

Philip Johnson

Howard Barnstone

Gene Aubry

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LOCATION
 
Continent
North America
Nation
United States
State
Texas
County
Harris
Town
Houston
Address
3900 Yupon Street
 
 
Telephone
+1.713.524.9839
Fax
+1.713.524.7461
Website
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CHRONOLOGY
 
Project
1964    
Realisation
1971
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AWARDS
 
2000
National Register of Historic Places
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
 
 
Dominique de Menil, The Rothko Chapel. Writings on Art and the Threshold of the Divine, The Rothko Chapel, Houston 2010
Sheldon Nodelman, The Rothko Chapel Paintings. Origins, Structure, Meaning, University of Texas Press, Houston 1997
Susan J. Barnes, The Rothko Chapel. An Act of Faith, The Rothko Chapel, Houston 1989
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ADDITIONS AND DIGRESSIONS
 
 
Peter Gabriel, "Fourteen Black Paintings", Us [CD], Real World Records (UK)/Geffen Records (USA) 1992
Peter Gabriel named the song "Fourteen Black Paintings" after his experience in the chapel.


Morton Feldman, Rothko Chapel [CD], New Albion Records 1971

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CLIENT
 
 
John and Dominique de Menil
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STAFF
 
Design concept
Mark Rothko
Architect
Philip Johnson
Howard Barnstone
Eugene Aubry
Art intervention
Barnett Newman (sculpture Broken Obelisk)
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ANNOTATIONS
 
 
Restored in 2019-2020
  • project: ARO – Architecture Research Office
  • lighting design: George Sexton Associates
  • sculpture “Broken Obelisk” dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr.: Barnett Newman
  • landscape: Nelson Byrd Woltz
 
 
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