Art and Architecture

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.

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.

Introduction In Constant Renewal: Interstitial CreativityChapter 2 Transforming the World: The Architectural Art of Brian ClarkeChapter 3 Dance of Light and Line: When an Architect Turns to ArtChapter 4 Presenting a Truth: Ben Johnson - Painting IllusionsChapter 5 Exposed Agency: Poetic Architectural Projection Across and Between DisciplinesChapter 6 Recollected in Tranquillity: Brendan Neiland - Changing SensibilitiesChapter 7 Connections: Time, Landscape, and the Art of Andy GoldsworthyChapter 8 An Alchemist of Super-Cooled Liquid: The Art and Craft of Danny LaneChapter 9 Dynamic Reciprocities: Exploring the Site of ProductionChapter 10 Tectonics of the Familiar: The Transposed Landscapes of Zoe ZenghelisChapter 11 The Artist as Contemporary PhilanthropistChapter 12 Canaletto: Synthetic Compositions of Maritime GreenwichChapter 13 Utopian Geometries: Turning Forms and the (Science) Fictions of Utopian ArchitectureChapter 14 Neo-Fluxus: Multimedia Performance Art and ArchitectureChapter 15 From Another Perspective - Surreal Urbanity: Sectors of the Exquisite City