Outside the Pale: The Architecture of Fay Jones
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Honored with the 1990 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for a lifetime of outstanding achievement, Fay Jones is an Arkansas original. In receiving the medal from Prince Charles of Great Britain, Jones was hailed as a “powerful and special genius who embodies nearly all the qualities we admire in an architect” and as an artist who used his vision to craft “mysterious and magical places” not only in Arkansas but all over the world.
This book accompanied a special museum exhibit of Jones’s life and work at the Old State House in Little Rock. It traces Jones’s development from his early years as a student of Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff, to the culmination of his ability in such arresting structures as Pinecote Pavilion in Picayune, Mississippi; Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas; and Chapman University Chapel in Orange, California. Through the black-and-white photographs of the homes, chapels, and other buildings that Jones has created and the accompanying captions and interviews of the architect, the reader is allowed a view into this man’s remarkable talent.
Designing structures that fuse architecture and landscape, the organic and the man-made, Jones has created special places which touch their viewers with the power and subtlety of poetry. Herein we learn why.
From the Foreword by Robert Adams Ivy Jr.:
“Fay Jones’s architecture begins in order and ends in mystery. . . . His role can perhaps best be understood as mediator, a human consciousness that has arisen from the Arkansas soil and scoured the cosmos, then spoken through the voices of stone and wood, steel and glass. Art, philosophy, craft, and human aspiration coalesce in his masterworks, transformed from acts of will into harmonies: Jones lets space sing.”
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On a recent family vacation in Missouri, we spent a couple days in Northwest Arkansas to visit the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and see two E. Fay Jones chapels in person. Previously I'd researched the architect's work in a monograph by Robert Ivy, but that hard-to-find book's expense meant I only read it at the library. At the museum shop of Crystal Bridges – after visiting Thorncrown Chapel but before visiting Cooper Chapel – I couldn't resist this affordable alternative to Ivy's monograph. Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at the Old State House Museum in Little Rock in 1999, "Outside the Pale" tells the story of Ivy's life and highlights some of his notable buildings, including the two chapels. There's an introduction by Ivy followed by a biography of Jones, but most of the book is made up of b/w photos, many by Timothy Hursley, and drawings that describe seven buildings alongside snippets of Jones's own words. Oddly, the photos and drawings for each project are not grouped together; combined with the short paragraphs, the book is more about the aura and consistency of Jones's architecture across numerous buildings rather than an understanding of any particular building. Those in need of the latter must search out Ivy's longer and more scholarly monograph.