The link between architecture and art and the sublimity it can create has a history that stretches back millennia. From cave paintings to the stained glass and saintly icons in churches and cathedrals, to the geometric and calligraphic treatments of mosques and contemporary artists channelling architecture and vice versa, and so much else. This AD is about the contemporary interactions between living artists and architects, and the artistic practices, such as poetry and abstractions, that architects adopt to develop ideas for their projects. The issue features artists, architects, curators, musicians, poets and designer craftspeople, illustrating the current rich mix of architectonic constructions, interventions and set pieces that range from musical performance to exhibition designs, glass works and digital 3D scanning. It lays out the wide spectrum and beauty of these sublime correspondences, with contributions from architects about their own artistic practices, and creative works viewed through the eyes of architectural commentators. An explosion of colour, form and creative tactics for making multifaceted work that above all is architectural, it offers a cornucopia of possibilities.
Contributors: Peter Baldwin, Kathy Battista, Nic Clear, Mathew Emmett, Paul Finch, Paul Greenhalgh, Hamed Khosravi, Eva Menuhin, Felix Robbins, and Simon Withers.
Featured architects and artists: a-project, Captivate, Brian Clarke, Andy Goldsworthy, Barbara Hepworth, Danny Lane, Ben Johnson, Brendan Neiland, Ian Ritchie, and Zoe Zenghelis.
Table of Contents
Introduction In Constant Renewal: Interstitial Creativity
Chapter 2 Transforming the World: The Architectural Art of Brian Clarke
Chapter 3 Dance of Light and Line: When an Architect Turns to Art
Chapter 4 Presenting a Truth: Ben Johnson - Painting Illusions
Chapter 5 Exposed Agency: Poetic Architectural Projection Across and Between Disciplines
Chapter 6 Recollected in Tranquillity: Brendan Neiland - Changing Sensibilities
Chapter 7 Connections: Time, Landscape, and the Art of Andy Goldsworthy
Chapter 8 An Alchemist of Super-Cooled Liquid: The Art and Craft of Danny Lane
Chapter 9 Dynamic Reciprocities: Exploring the Site of Production
Chapter 10 Tectonics of the Familiar: The Transposed Landscapes of Zoe Zenghelis
Chapter 11 The Artist as Contemporary Philanthropist
Chapter 12 Canaletto: Synthetic Compositions of Maritime Greenwich
Chapter 13 Utopian Geometries: Turning Forms and the (Science) Fictions of Utopian Architecture
Chapter 14 Neo-Fluxus: Multimedia Performance Art and Architecture
Chapter 15 From Another Perspective - Surreal Urbanity: Sectors of the Exquisite City
