Olson Kundig to Design The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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The George Kaiser Family Foundation has chosen Seattle-based firm Olson Kundig as the lead architect for The Bob Dylan Center that will be coming up in the Tulsa Arts District in Oklahoma. “After reviewing proposals from top firms around the world, we agreeOlson Kundig to Design The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma
The George Kaiser Family Foundation has chosen Seattle-based firm Olson Kundig as the lead architect for The Bob Dylan Center that will be coming up in the Tulsa Arts District in Oklahoma. “After reviewing proposals from top firms around the world, we agreed that Olson Kundig’s experience, talent and design aesthetic stood out as the best fit for this project. We’re excited about the vision that Olson Kundig expressed for a world-class cultural center that will do justice to the iconic Bob Dylan collection,” said Ken Levit from George Kaiser Family Foundation.The center will house the Bob Dylan Archive featuring more than 100,000 artifacts from 60 years of Dylan’s career. The collection includes unreleased recordings from live concerts and studio sessions, Dylan’s handwritten notebooks and manuscripts, artwork, musical instruments, films, photographs, and more. The collection will be exhibited once the center is complete and will also be available for scholarly research, noted ArchDaily.“This is a deeply meaningful project for us — not only acting as architectural support to Bob’s transformational legacy and creative, disciplined force, but also in preserving the teaching value of his legacy for future generations,” said Tom Kundig, Design Principal – Architecture.The upcoming center will be in near vicinity to The Woody Guthrie Center, which was also sponsored by the George Kaiser Family Foundation and Tulsa University. Woody Guthrie was one of Bob Dylan’s musical heroes. Dylan had expressed his enthusiasm at being included in Tulsa’s art and museum community alongside his musical hero. The legendary artist had said: “I’m glad that my archives, which have been collected all these years, have finally found a home and are to be included with the works of Woody Guthrie and especially alongside all the valuable artifacts from the Native American Nations. To me, it makes a lot of sense and it’s a great honor.”“Since the 1960s, I have been inspired by the role that change and reinvention have played in the creative life of Bob Dylan. I’m grateful to the George Kaiser Family Foundation and the Dylan Center Advisory Council for selecting our team to reveal and share the treasure of a largely unseen archive to future audiences in perpetuity,” said Alan Maskin, Design Principal – Exhibits.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more