At MASS MoCA, Bruner/Cott merges architecture and art in a permanent exhibit of 100 Sol LeWitt wall drawings. Natural light underscores the crisp elegance of the art; building design sets fine-scaled wall drawings against rough-textured mill structure.

Among the most influential artists of the 20th Century, LeWitt is regarded as one of the founders of both Minimal and Conceptual art. Building 7 and MASS MoCA appealed to LeWitt as an ideal site for a multi-floor installation of his work, opposing tightly constructed wall drawings against the found object, the entire building washed with a perimeter of natural light. Planning for the retrospective began in 2005 with a scale model of building 7 which Lewitt and Bruner/Cott used to devise a specific selection, sequence, and spatial orientation for 100 of his wall drawings.

The work is spread chronologically among three levels totaling 33,00 square feet. A soaring vertical connector links each floor of the building, and the building to the rest of the museum campus. Built on Bruner/Cott’s Master Plan for MASS MoCA, Building 7 now activates vast new areas of the historic site and links the entire sequence of exhibition spaces in one elegant loop.

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