Museum of the Southwest

Truth in Architecture: Works by Paul Stevenson Oles FAIA

On view April 13 (extended) through July 30
Concho Resources Inc. Galleries

Paul Stevenson Oles.
MGF Center Development Proposal/ I.M. Pei & Partners. Tower eye level view, looking southeast. 1982.
Black Prismacolor on Strathmore board. On loan from artist.

Made possible by Rhotenberry Wellen Architects.

Midland native Steve Oles is considered one of the world’s premier architectural illustrators, and prior to his retirement taught architectural drawing at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Rhode Island School of Design, Yale University and MIT.

While a majority of his work was commissioned by the legendary New York firm I.M. Pei & Partners, the exhibition features additional examples of work created for other world-famous firms such as Cambridge Seven Associates, The Architects Collaborative and Safdie Architects. The exhibition features Ole’s illustrations of Boston’s Moakley Federal Courthouse, the Washington National Cathedral and Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial—as well as an incredible I.M. Pei designed building planned for Midland, but never built.

Paul Stevenson Oles.
MGF Center Development Proposal/ I.M. Pei & Partners, 1982. 
Comprehensive city photomontage, looking south.

2019 Exhibition schedule made possible by a generous grant from Rae Charitable Trust.