Discipline: Architecture

Wellington Reiter

Discipline: Architecture
Region: Newton, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002

Welington Reiter, while in residence at MacDowell, completed a suite of 40 drawings that relate to exploration of architectural representation. This work will be folded into two upcoming projects: an exhibition relating to the work of Piranesi at the Boston Athenaeum and at the development of an "opera" based on the life of Buckminster Fuller with the support of an Arts and Humanities Grant from MIT.

Mr. Reiter's office, Urban Instruments, Inc., was one of four national firms invited to submit proposals for the Air Force Memorial in Washington D.C. The Roger residence will be published by Metropolitan Home this summer.

Studios

Adams

Wellington Reiter worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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