Art and Architecture: Strategies in Collaboration

Since the beginning of the 2 th century, artists and architects have often been in collaboration. This relationship was not necessarily without conflict – on the contrary, a productive tension and friction can often be found at the basis of their common endeavors. However, wherever art and architecture establish a common territory in the public arena, highly integrated schemes may result that are of particular appeal and quality. In recent years, the barriers between art and architecture have come down even further while many artists are attracted to the spatial presence of architecture and its language and scale, contemporary architects also seek the inspiration of art and include artistic concepts into their designs. Great works of art/architecture have resulted from these cooperations and this book explores them in nine chapters from 9 4 up to the present, highlighting the most striking examples of these interdisciplinary activities such as the LACMA scheme by Renzo Piano/Jeff Koons in Los Angeles, the Chichu Art Museum by Tadao Ando with its installation by Walter de Maria, the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale by David Adjaye with artist Chris Ofili or the work by Keith Sonnier in the Munich Re Building by amp nbsp Baumschlager Eberle.

Table of Contents:
1 Introduction: The Ending and the Beginning; 2 The Red of the Sky, not the Burning House: A Dream of Cultural Unity; 3 Symmetric Identities: Saarinen the Elder and the Younger; 4 Minotaur in the Labyrinth and Christ on the Cross: Artists and Architects in Church Design; 5 Power and the Place of Art: The Marketing and the Domestication of the Modern; 6 Gravestones of Modernism: Monumental Public Sculpture; 7 Empty Spaces and Vast Horizons: Artists Making Environments Against Architecture; 8 Sculptural Space becomes Architectural Space: Minimalist Architecture and Minimal Art; 9 Conclusion: What shall we do now? Collages and Architectural Fragments; 10 Further Architect and Artist Collaborations: Six examples; Appendix; Index; Selected; Bibliography; Illustration; Credits.

About the Author :
The author is a practising architect who graduated from Princeton University. Previously at the office of Philip Johnson, he is now a project manager at SBLM Architects, New York. He contributed to various architectural journals and is author of the publication First House: the grid, the figure and the void, London, Academy Editions, 2 2. Christian Bjone ist praktizierender Architekt und hat an der renommierten Princeton University studiert. Zunächst im Büro von Philip Johnson tätig, arbeitet er heute als Projektmanager für SBLM Architects, New York. Er hat Beiträge für verschiedene Architekturzeitschriften verfasst und ist Autor des Buches First House: the grid, the figure and the void, London, Academy Editions, 2 2.