Curated by Matthew Drutt

Luisa Lambri’s elegant, often monochromatic photographs of isolated architectural details like facades, corridors, and venetian blind–covered windows could represent any number of buildings anywhere. That they are always untitled adds to the mystery. But Lambri is engaged in a dialogue with the iconic, not the anonymous—the subjects of her photographic investigations include Corbusier, Niemeyer, and Neutra. And now Philip Johnson: A photograph of the Houston residence he designed for John and Dominique de Menil was commissioned on the occasion of this solo exhibition, Lambri’s first at a US museum. The thirty-three works on view and seventeen previously unpublished photos feature in the catalogue with an essay by Menil chief curator Matthew Drutt.

— Meghan Dailey