Editors’ Introduction

This book project began several years ago with research toward an exhibition conceived, designed, and mounted at the Art Design & Architecture Museum in Fall 2015. A selection from the exhibit travelled to the University of Pennsylvania in Fall 2016. The decision to organize the exhibition and this subsequent publication typologically initially came from the need to have a simple frame with which to investigate Barton Myers’s large archive. The arrangement by type in the exhibition provided a structure for choreographing a few major ideas across projects, places, and time. What guided us was the realization that planning and a deep