Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A work made of ink and wash on paper.

Chicago Tribune Tower II - Late Entry, Variation on a Theme #WG-23

1980

Fred Koetter American, 1938–2017

Chicago

Fred Koetter’s project illustrates an idea about how technologies from both past and present might exist in a single building. This experimental proposal took as its base the glass-and-steel curtain wall of Walter Gropius’s Tribune entry, which Koetter “deformed” and activated by applying a futuristic, pneumatic system to the frame.

Ink and wash on paper

Architecture and Design