#donald-judd

#donald-judd

Donald Judd's architecture office in Marfa will reopen this month after a seven-year restoration. The building caught fire in 2021, less than one month before what was originally a three-year renovation was due to be completed, partially collapsing the roof and parts of the top floor. The $3.3m restoration of the two-floor brick building began in 2018 as part of the Marfa Restoration Plan, a project to restore six sites under the stewardship of the Judd Foundation.

After moving to Marfa in the 1970s, Judd purchased 22 buildings in the small Chihuahua desert town and transformed them into spaces to live, work, and display art. Among them are a former military complex turned residence and galleries for his large-scale pieces, an adobe house for his paintings and collection of antique Swedish and Shaker furniture, and an old Safeway for his art studio.

This important recognition provides a context through which to understand Don's work. Few people make their own world of art, design and architecture.