Puppet Theater at Harvard’s Carpender Center

The Carpenter Centre for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the only major Le Corbusier-designed building in North America. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of this building, a crazy-looking temporary puppet theatre was constructed within its sunken courtyard.

French conceptual artist Pierre Huyghe and Harvard assistant professor of architecture, Michael Meredith, collaborated on the structure using the help of computer technology and a team of GSD students. For them, metaphorical identities for the structure included an egg, a seed, a tumor, an alien spacecraft, and Le Corbusier’s brain.

The structure is built with 500 white polycarbonate panels – each unique in shape — held together by 2,000 bolts to form a rigid frame covered in real moss, not its plastic imitation.

Link Via [Judit Bellostes]