Design
A New Urbanism Fantasy, Painted in Oils
Architectural artist Carl Laubin has combined every winner of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize into a single city, and the results make more sense than you might think.
Looming in the distance of "A Classical Perspective," a new oil painting by architectural artist Carl Laubin, is a pink-granite skyscraper. In Louisville, where the tower—the Humana Building—actually resides, it's known as the Milk Carton, so called for architect Michael Graves's sloping pyramid design for the building's upper floors. Laubin's painting is obviously not a depiction of Louisville. Here, the postmodern tower appears to belong to a downtown one village over. The city in the foreground is plainly not any Kentucky settlement past or present.
Carl Laubin's "A Classical Perspective." Click for larger version. (2012, oil on canvas. Courtesy University of Notre Dame School of Architecture)