The exhibition, designed by Sugimoto, places thirty images in two rooms that flank the museum's main circulation on the ground floor. Facing each other through large openings, each room contains three rows of five images and provides a clear visual axis through the exhibition, appropriate for a museum that places a high emphasis on grids and visual legitimacy. Walking into each gallery, the visitor is confronted by fifteen gray, free-standing slabs that almost reach the translucent glass ceiling, the photos turning their backs on the visitor. This simple gesture accomplishes two things: it forces the visitor to move among the photos in the gallery and, more importantly, it physically embodies the ideas of the images that are presented; each extending the architecture of the photos to the architecture of the exhibition.

Sugimoto: Architecture.....Chicago, Illinois