Hiroshi Sugimoto Talking About Architecture

Before I get into his newly reopening Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden, here are a couple of useful backgrounders of Hiroshi Sugimoto talking about museums, architecture, and museum architecture: “My idea was to transform the Hirshhorn’s Lobby into an artwork that symbolizes what is unique about both the building and the collection. Ideally, this piece is sculpture, furniture, and conceptual art, all at the same time.”—Hiroshi Sugimoto, NMRL/Yukihiro Sakakida, Hirshhorn Lobby, 2017-18, : HH/SI/Cathy Carver In 2013, Sugimoto spoke at the Asia Society’s Arts & Museum Summit, organized by its then-museum director Melissa Chiu. Chiu would soon become director of the Hirshhorn, where she would commission the artist’s two renovation projects for the museum. The cover of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Sense of Space, 2011, with his exhibition at 21C Though his talk was nominally titled, “Museums of the Future,” the future museum he was most interested in was his own. Sugimoto began by sharing his complaints…