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Rothko Chapel
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  3900 Yupon Street
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TYPOLOGY |
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ARCHITECTURE | Museums and buildings for exhibitions
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Project |
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1964
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1971 |
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National Register of Historic Places |
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |
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Dominique de Menil, The Rothko Chapel. Writings on Art and the Threshold of the Divine, The Rothko Chapel, Houston 2010 |
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Sheldon Nodelman, The Rothko Chapel Paintings. Origins, Structure, Meaning, University of Texas Press, Houston 1997 |
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Susan J. Barnes, The Rothko Chapel. An Act of Faith, The Rothko Chapel, Houston 1989 |
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ADDITIONS AND DIGRESSIONS |
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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.
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Morton Feldman, Rothko Chapel [CD], New Albion Records 1971 |
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CLIENT |
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John and Dominique de Menil |
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Philip Johnson Howard Barnstone Eugene Aubry |
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Barnett Newman (sculpture Broken Obelisk) |
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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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