EXHIBITION Karen Bausman: SUPERMODELS   LOCATION Gund Gallery, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts DATE December 3, 2001-January 11, 2002
		DESCRIPTION In Karen Bausman's architectural praxis, action is inseparable from idea. Model schemes and design research evolve simultaneously in a progression of ideas shifting between two and three dimensions. Nascent forms, tectonic elements, and structural details are assembled into paper, wood or rapid protype models that increase in size as they pass through successive stages of examination. The culmination of the process of designing, reworking, transformation, is the Supermodel which represents the fusion of architectural vision and structural analysis into a layered expression of complex form and sophisticated detail. Its large scale provokes a visceral response to the project’s dynamism and breadth. To mark this exhibition, Harvard will publish the forthcoming Karen Bausman: SUPERMODELS, a comprehensive monograph of drawings, supermodels, process models and related source materials for Performance Theater (Warner Bros. Los Angeles), Hamlin Chapel and Library, and Korean Memorial and Cultural Center.