Within the walls, buildings were constructed around a courtyard or series of courtyards, with every important building facing south.
On Tuesday, Mr. Ziporyn's sextet, the new-music group Bang on a Can All-Stars, will bring the first of four parts of "Music for Airports," along with five other works, to Yale Law School as part of the courtyard concert series at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven.
The gallery around the courtyard had series of columns and the prayer hall, which had the domes built over it, had five more rows of five pillars.
There was a central courtyard with a series of little rooms opening out from it.
Accompanied by recorded Tibetan music, he made his way across P.S. 1's courtyard in a series of Buddhist-style prostrations until he reached the bed.
Topping the museum is an open-air sculpture courtyard where a series of crenelations allow snapshot views of Reno and it environs.
At the far end of the courtyard, through a series of Moorish archways, was a marble pavilion that gave way to a swimming pool and a spectacular view of the coast and the sea.
The planned upgrades to the 1912 building include turning the interior courtyard into a series of hanging gardens, and possibly installing a sky lobby on the top floor, with elevators that would take tenants to a roof garden.
The south range measures 42 m long and divides the courtyard from the series of terraces to the south.
One particular piece called, Chromosaturation, located in the museum's courtyard, features a series of connecting color chambers that are housed within a large shipping container.
