Museum Planning » Ron Arad http://museumplanner.org A blog of museum planning by an experienced exhibition designer Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:42:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 My Heros http://museumplanner.org/my-heros/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-heros http://museumplanner.org/my-heros/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:15:22 +0000 Mark Walhimer http://museumplanner.org/?p=309

Antoine Predock skiing on the roof of one of his buildings.

I am sitting on the deck in Ubud, Bali, thinking “who are my heroes?”.  Below is a short list.  They all are:

  • Free thinkers
  • Live life as an adventure
  • Keep trying, keep pushing
  • Have managed to change the discipline of Art and design.

-Mark

Antoine Predock – He has combined Architecture, Art, Motorcycles, Scuba, Skiing and Dance, and his buildings are damn sexy!

Ingo Maurer – Has combined sculpture with lighting using a atelier structure for his business

Gaetano Pesce – An artist /designer, who creates “one off” functional Art.

Vito Acconci – Started as a Poet, then Sculptor, crossed over into architecture, industrial design and landscape architecture. Link to MIT Show Recent article about studio

James Ossi – I met James in 1990 and it changed my life.  An artist who makes machines that create square bubbles?!!  He was living in a farmhouse with a studio in the back and teaching.

Ron Arad – Industrial Designer, started by making Hi fidelity stereo equipment out of concrete, went on to have a furniture studio and now an architecture firm.

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