Solar Design Exhibit at Cooper Hewitt

While we’re talking solar . . . the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in New York City is featuring

a special exhibit of solar designs and technologies entitled “Under the Sun: An Outdoor Exhibition of Light.” Architectural highlights include a glass pavilion made of clear and PV glass panels designed by Gregory Kiss and Nicholas Goldsmith, FAIA, and a solar tensile pavilion, also by Goldsmith, made of thin film photovoltaics laminated onto fabric. The 32’-high (10 m) center mast of the pavilion is the center of a sundial. The exhibit runs from June 21 to October 25, 1998. The museum is located at 2 East 91 Street, New York, NY 10128; 212/849-8400, www.si.edu/ndm.