Archisculpture

by Bruderlin, Markus

• ISBN13: 9783775714914
• ISBN10: 377571491X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag Gmbh & Co Kg

Summary

Description: ArchiSCULPTUREexamines modern sculpture's proximity to and interplay with architecture, a phenomenon long neglected in the history of sculpture--but especially pronounced in the 20th century. More than any other medium, it is sculpture that crosses most with architecture: each exists in three-dimensional space, changing as the viewer moves around and through it. Not only have they shared materials--they have shared many practitioners. And this was long before percent-for-art programs were even initiated, thereby institutionalizing the need for artistic intervention into the built environment. In this generously illustrated publication, works by a long range of artists--from Boullae to Malevich, Picasso to Le Corbusier, and a host of others up to the present--feature alongside essays that examine these borderline forms of design.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 9
Foreword	p. 13
Introduction : ArchiSculpture	p. 15
Cube and womb	p. 26
Sculpture as "shifter" - on the relationship between sculpture and architecture	p. 35
Blur, monolith, blob, box : atmospheres of ArchiSculpture	p. 42
Is architecture becoming sculpture? : a virtual roundtable with practitioners and theoreticians from both disciplines	p. 48
The exhibition in ten chapters
The early history	p. 56
The triumph over scale : "architecture is sculpture" (Brancusi)	p. 85
The conquest of three-dimensional space, 1910-1930 : Cubism - De Stijl - Bauhaus	p. 96
The discovery of sculptural form, 1910-1930 : expressionism in architecture	p. 114
Language - soul - space : Rudolf Steiner and Ludwig Wittgenstein	p. 126
Architecture becomes sculpture - sculpture becomes architecture 1950-1960	p. 136
Sculpture as way and place : from monument to installation	p. 156
Minimal architecture or love of the box, 1970-2000	p. 166
The sculpted city 1960-1970 : urban utopias and informal mega-sculptures	p. 178
"Box and blob" and the discovery of virtual space : the twenty-first century	p. 192
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