The Winter Visual Arts Building

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Franklin & Marshall College celebrated the completion of its Winter Visual Arts Building, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with a virtual event where professor Kostis Kourelis said the “new building is itself a philosophical machine.”

opens to students as the college begins its academic year. On the historic campus rcs data of Franklin & Marshall College, the new building takes shape as a raised pavilion formed by the site’s 200-year-old trees, the oldest elements of the campus. The building’s spaces aim to evoke the creative energy involved in teaching and making art.

A first reflection of the new Winter Visual Arts Building for Franklin & Marshall College led Steven Holl of Steven Holl Architects (SHA) to remember Benjamin Franklin’s kite on the rainy and thunderstruck night when he first harnessed electricity. Holl’s initial sketches of a building like a kite stuck in the trees were a playful beginning.