When you are truly seeking Zen-like meditative calm, walk over to the Lee Ufan Foundation, now in its second year. It was founded (and entirely funded) by the eminent South Korean artist, 86, who renovated a historic three-story townhouse in the center of the city in collaboration with his friend, architect Tadao Ando. Together, they filled the building with site-specific works, such as a large basin of water into which a bead of waters drops every 20 seconds from the vaulted sixteenth-century ceiling, and a stainless steel “road” in another room that scoops upward from a floor covered with marble gravel and is grounded on either side by a large stone.
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