Modern Atlanta

Lecture: “Houses, Landscapes, Object-Types” by Anthony Ames

This lecture will present and discuss examples of Anthony Ames’s residential work and its relationship to the discipline of architecture. The work is referenced in paintings and murals that are on view at the High Museum of Art. These compositions serve as, if not a laboratory, at least a playground, for the investigation of formal relationships.

Anthony Ames

For more than thirty years Anthony Ames’s geometric white residences have been a modern alternative to the prevailing tradition of historicist architecture in Atlanta. Best known for Hulse House in Ansley Park (1984), his local public commissions include the Orientation Center for the Atlanta Botanical Garden (1984) and the Fulton County Library in Alpharetta (1986). His honors include the Architectural Record House Award for Hulse Pavilion in 1978 and the Progressive Architecture Design Citation for Garden Pavilion in 1982.

Model of House at Scaly Mountain, 1994

Collection of Anthony Ames

A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and of the American Academy in Rome, two monographs have been published on Ames’s work:  “Five Houses” and “Residential Work Volume 2.” A graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Harvard University, he was awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture in 1983 and has taught at eleven colleges and universities. Ames has maintained a small private practice in Atlanta since 1974.  In addition to architecture, he has designed furniture, rugs, and dinnerware, as well as created a series of paintings that inform his work.

Model of Hulse Residence, 1985

Collection of Anthony Ames

This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition:

Anthony Ames, Architect: Residential Landscapes

 April 11- August 23

On view at the High Museum of Art

Delray I, 2000

Acrylic on composition board

24” x 38.5” x 2”

Collection of Anthony Ames