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Gordon Watkinson (born in 1964 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA) is an American visual artist whose work has a strong focus on architecture and design.〔(Gordon Watkinson Website / About ) Retrieved January 20, 2014〕 Fascinated by forms, structures and materials Watkinson explores the role of architecture and design as life changing tools, while revisiting both visually and conceptually major architectural shifts from a contemporary perspective, with a particular emphasis on the modernist era.〔(Louisa Curtis is in the ChatterCorner with Gordon Watkinson ) Retrieved January 22, 2014〕 == Work == Watkinson discovered photography while studying at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia where a professor encouraged him to pursue a career as a photographer.〔(Louisa Curtis is in the ChatterCorner with Gordon Watkinson ) Retrieved February 3, 2014〕 Following initial years as a photography assistant Watkinson worked as a commercial photographer in advertising, architecture, design and fashion, and directed commercial videos for clients such as the Spiegel catalog and Texas Instruments.〔(Gordon Watkinson Website / About ) Retrieved February 3, 2014〕 Inspired by a visit to the Bauhaus school in Dessau, Germany in the 1990s Gordon Watkinson created the large-scale traveling exhibition ''Bauhaus twenty-21: An Ongoing Legacy'',〔Gordon Watkinson, "A Design Traveler" in Gordon Watkinson: ''Bauhaus twenty-21: An Ongoing Legacy'', Basel: Birkhäuser, 2009, p. 26〕 featuring the work of Bauhaus masters and students Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Georg Muche, and Richard Paulick in dialogue with early 21st century's buildings by established as well as internationally renowned architects such as RCR, Sauerbruch Hutton, Werner Sobek or Gert Wingårdh. Presented under the patronage of UNESCO the exhibition opened at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt, Germany in March 2009, commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus. Since then it has been touring extensively throughout Europe (Kraków, Nice, Munich, Stockholm, Ljubljana, Bratislava, Brussels, Eindhoven, Tampere) and is currently touring in the US.〔(Foto+Synthesis / Bauhaus twenty-21 ) Retrieved February 3, 2014〕 Watkinson's singular vision of the architecture, with its particular emphasis on frontal views and abstract forms as well as on the materiality of the structures,〔Peter Cachola Schmal, "From Bauhaus to Your House" in Gordon Watkinson: ''Bauhaus twenty-21: An Ongoing Legacy'', Basel: Birkhäuser, 2009. p. 13〕〔Maja Mozga-Gorecka in ''Rzeczpospolita'', May 2009〕 has shaped an important body of work photographing architecture and design, including buildings and objects by Marcel Breuer, Eileen Gray, Le Corbusier, Jacobus Oud, Jean Prouvé, and also sculpture, more particularly the work of Auguste Rodin.〔(Foto+Synthesis ) Retrieved February 3, 2014〕 Watkinson's work has been published in The Dallas Morning News (US), ELLE Decoration (Germany), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany), Numéro (France), Le Point (France), PHOTO International (Germany), Süddeutsche Zeitung-Magazin (Germany). Watkinson regularly lectures and gives workshops in museums and universities both in Europe and in the US, most recently at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo (Norway), at the Bauhaus University in Weimar (Germany), at Mississippi State University〔(Gordon Watkinson presents first Harrison Lecture ) Retrieved February 3, 2014〕 and at the University of Memphis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gordon Watkinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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