Rengin Holt, Virginia/USA

This exchange is visualized by means of large-format photographs of her buildings together with original graphics, from whose strict constructive geometry Holt derives her architectural forms. Viewing the print and the image of the building in parallel, the rigorous geometries and the layering of transparencies in the two-dimensional work aptly convey the space, landscape, light and volume that appear in the architecture. The depth of space is conveyed without reliance on perspectival seeing, depending rather on overlap, transparency and partial views of interior elevations. Rengin Holt was born in Istanbul, Turkey. She holds degrees in architecture and art and has worked for IM.Pei in New York. Currently she has her own design practise and teaches graphics to students of architecture. Her work has been shown at numerous international exhibitions. Most recently Rengin Holt has concentrated her efforts on a series of built houses, enhancing her investi-gations of architectural space through the two-dimensional medium of print-making. The flat, albeit layered, graphic investigations of the print are translated into the constructed space of the house. The two-dimensinal prints serve to order and clarify what is more complex and difficult to read in the third dimension. The architecture, like the prints, present both literal and the phenomenal transparency. Rengin Holt’s work beautifully confirms Luis Bunuel‘s assertion that intelligence becomes genuine when it offers the possibility of expression.