MARFA –– This weekend, the Judd Foundation will host an opening celebration and block party for the reopening of the Architecture Office on Highland Avenue. The building has undergone a seven-year renovation and restoration process to add the space to the nonprofit’s roster of historically significant buildings owned and occupied by the late artist.
“This project was guided by Don’s lifelong work in architecture, his thinking and interest in the history of a building,” Rainer Judd, president of Judd Foundation, explained in a press release. “He knew that the built environment is an embodiment of the past and a benefit to the present.”
The building will be open to the public for viewing from noon to 2 p.m and 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, September 20, and will open again on Sunday, September 21, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
On Saturday, Peter Stanley of the Judd Foundation, Troy Schaum of Schaum Architects, and Beatrice Galilee of The World Around will host an informative talk on the restoration and a broader conversation on adaptive reuse at 2 p.m. at the Crowley Theater (98 S. Austin Street). The building will be formally dedicated in a ceremony at 6 p.m., including remarks by Rainer and Flavin Judd. A community supper catered by Mark Scott of Sawtooth Projects will follow at 7 p.m., including music by Primo Carrasco and Tres Hombres de Marfa.
On Sunday, Julian Rose, historian and visiting lecturer at Princeton, will give a talk on Donald Judd and architecture at 2 p.m. at the Crowley Theater. All events are free and open to the public.