Richard Serra is one of the most preeminent sculptors of our era. He makes rolled-steel sculptures so massive that New York’s Museum of Modern Art designed a gallery to support their weight. Serra has long been acclaimed for his challenging and innovative work, which emphasizes materially and an engagement with the viewer. Over the years Serra has expanded his spatial and temporal approach to sculpture and has focused primarily on large-scale work, including many site-specific works that engage with a particular architectural, urban, or landscape setting.
He understands the material from the ground up - - Serra joined a U.S. Steel rivet gang to put himself through Yale. He has several good thoughts engineers ought to consider in the context of design and construction:
In play and experimentation you don’t foresee the end product. It allows you to suspend judgment. Often the solution to one problem sparks a possibility for another set of problems. Sometimes that happens in the process of building a work. That’s why I go to all my installations. In the actual building of something you see connections you could not possibly have foreseen on that scale unless you were physically there. One has to experience scale in context.
He understands the material from the ground up - - Serra joined a U.S. Steel rivet gang to put himself through Yale. He has several good thoughts engineers ought to consider in the context of design and construction:
In play and experimentation you don’t foresee the end product. It allows you to suspend judgment. Often the solution to one problem sparks a possibility for another set of problems. Sometimes that happens in the process of building a work. That’s why I go to all my installations. In the actual building of something you see connections you could not possibly have foreseen on that scale unless you were physically there. One has to experience scale in context.
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