Morphosis is on Barnes’ short list
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne and his Santa Monica firm Morphosis are on the short list of candidates to design a 120,000-square-foot center for education and art for the Barnes Foundation, the organization announced Friday.
The other five candidates are Tadao Ando of Japan; Diller Scofido + Renfro, New York; Kengo Kuma, Japan; Rafael Moneo, Spain; and Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, New York.
The project, to be built on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, represents the end product of a controversial decision to move the financially troubled Barnes Foundation’s collection of Impressionist, Postimpressionist and African art to a new downtown gallery from the one the late Dr. Albert Barnes built in the 1920s in Pennsylvania’s Lower Merion Township.
“This project presents a tremendous opportunity,” Mayne said through a spokeswoman Friday. “The Barnes Foundation is an institution with which I feel a genuine affinity ... its deep commitment to progressive ideals, social justice and experimentation have also been hugely influential in my own personal and professional development.”
The Barnes Foundation plans to announce its selection by late summer.
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