Recognized throughout his career with honors and awards, Blackwell received a 2012 AIA National Honor Award and the 2012 Architecture Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for a unique use of design strategies that draw upon vernaculars and contradictions of place to
transgress conventional boundaries for architecture.
Collection, as Walter Hopps observed, is probably the first of Rauschenberg's works to evince all the characteristics of a Combine, that hybrid of painting and sculpture that the artist developed in the 1950s.1 Yet, despite the challenge to
conventional categories posed by its collage and the addition of objects that
transgress the limits of frame and picture plane, Collection stands primarily as a reflection on the contemporary status of painting.