The Writing on the Wall
Abstract
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon’s reputation was made at Sea Ranch. She studied with the Swiss modernist Armin Hofmann, scrutinizing Helvetica with a microscope. The superg Graphics are often inserted into modernist environs, warping through planes and wrapping across walls. In Chicago, the typography is stretched and squashed into geometric motifs that trade Sea Ranch. Exits Exist is on display. The book features sumptuous landscape drawings that often begin in plan view. The books are on display through July 9; admission is a free, reservations are required. For more information on Solomon's books are available in the bookstore, including her 1989 book, Green Architecture and the Agrarian Garden. “The architecture, the architecture, “tells me what to do,” Solomon says, ‘tellsme what todo.’