The Milwaukee Art Museum’s Quadracci Pavilion at Sunrise
Photograph and text by David Eijadi, FAIA | January 18, 2024
View of Milwaukee’s world-famous lakefront landmark from the nearby War Memorial Center. Photo by David Eijadi, FAIA.
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I rarely make a point of being somewhere at a specific time to take a photograph. I made an exception when I arrived one evening in Milwaukee and saw the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Quadracci Pavilion by Santiago Calatrava. That evening I checked the time and azimuth for sunrise.
The Quadracci Pavilion isn’t merely sculptural and kinetic; it seems to have a posture that looks to be in prayer at sunrise. After hurrying to the obvious, easy-to-get-to vantage points, I asked myself, as I generally do, “Where don’t people go to shoot this building?” I could see the angled supports of the War Memorial Center by Eliel and Eero Saarinen some distance away, and the notion struck me that, if I hustled, there might be a moment of light and geometry worth the effort. This is where my imagination led me.
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