’Lookout,’ a large-scale work by the eminent sculptor Martin Puryear, is the latest addition to the permanent collection at the Storm King Art Center, in New Windsor, NY. Credits : Credit: Jeffrey Jenkins courtesy of Martin Puryear Studio
'Lookout,' a large-scale work by the eminent sculptor Martin Puryear, is the latest addition to the permanent collection at the Storm King Art Center, in New Windsor, NY. Credits : Credit: Jeffrey Jenkins courtesy of Martin Puryear Studio Martin Puryear's monumental sculpture "Lookout" has turned heads with its novel brick design. Here's how MIT helped him build it. In the Hudson River Valley, on a hill inside the Storm King Art Center, a new addition to the country's leading outdoor sculpture collection was unveiled this fall. "Lookout," by the eminent American sculptor Martin Puryear, is a beguiling, domed brick structure with confounding curves, a walk-in entrance, and 90 apertures. The sculpture "could be the most amazing thing Martin's ever done," the noted curator John Elderfield told The New York Times . "Lookout" also raises a question: How do you assemble an entirely curving building using rectilinear bricks, of all materials? Answer: First, assemble a team of leading masonry experts to work on it - including several individuals who are MIT faculty, alumni, and students.
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