For the Swiss-born historian Kurt W. Forster, architecture was never singular. It was an ever-expanding constellation of people, places, projects, and ideas that bled at its edges into numerous other disciplines, and the task that befell the observer—Forster—was to draw intricate, often surprising webs of connection across it in an effort to capture and understand it in all its complexity.
Forster, who died of cancer in January at 89, made those connections in his voluminous writings, in his decades of teaching, in his curatorial work, and even in the institutional structures that he shaped—perhaps most notably the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, now the Getty Research Institute, where he served as inaugural director from 1984 to 1992.
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