Architecture
Restore and preserve Point Counterpoint II, Kahn's 191-foot floating performance venue.
Music · Education · Community
Winds on the water.
The unexpected, by river.
Reimagining Louis Kahn’s Point Counterpoint II for a new generation Wind Symphony.
Discover the projectThe Point Counterpoint Project
A concert hall without walls.
For more than three decades, Point Counterpoint II brought exceptional music directly to riverfront communities, transforming waterfronts into gathering places and introducing audiences to music and musicians in unexpected ways. The Point Counterpoint Project intends to bring that experience back — restored, renewed, and built to last.
Music
Convene exceptional young professional musicians for a summer wind symphony traveling America's waterways.
Rivers
Use the vessel as a platform for education, community engagement, and understanding the waterways themselves.
A building that moves
Point Counterpoint II
Commissioned by conductor Robert Boudreau and designed by architect Louis I. Kahn, Point Counterpoint II was launched in 1976 as a purpose-built floating stage and home for the American Wind Symphony.
Its great steel canopy opens to transform the vessel into a riverfront concert hall. The vessel survives today. The next work is to establish its condition through a formal marine survey and define the path to restoration.
The program
Arrive by river.
Open the stage.
Change the place.
A residency begins before the full concert: chamber music in schools and civic spaces, students aboard the vessel, rehearsals on the waterfront, and a public performance at the water's edge.
The vessel itself becomes part of the curriculum — connecting music with architecture, engineering, energy, and the environment.
“For a weekend, the riverside of a town that never had one becomes a concert hall without walls.”
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The Point Counterpoint Project is in development. We welcome conversations with prospective partners, supporters, educators, musicians, researchers, architects, and others interested in the project.