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Other prominent views advance a single aspect, generally function or form, as primary. Thus, functionalist architectural doctrine places function or utility at the heart of the architectural enterprise, with other aspects of architecture subordinate thereto. A hard-line functional essentialist holds that, if a built structure has no function, then it is not architecture. As a modest dissent, Graham proposes that such a structure is an architectural work—but a failure at such. One brand of more radical rejection suggests that some architectural objects—perhaps including follies, memorials, or monuments—need have no function at all.
As a competing essentialism, formalist architectural doctrine suggests that an object is architectural just in case it features forms proper to the domain. A common interpretation says that forms proper to architecture can be chosen off a stylistic menu or combination of menus , leaving architects great latitude while upholding the possibility of contrasting, non-architectural forms this is difficult to square, however, with some experimental architecture.
As Graham notes , the traditional question in architectural theory of whether form trumps or precedes function may be cast in such terms. Against these traditional brands of essentialism, two further kinds of doubt may be cast. First, it may be that the Vitruvian triad, or some single aspect thereof, does not represent the right list—we should include either further aspects or different aspects altogether.
Alternatives might include dimensions such as context, relations among architectural objects, systemic features, sustainability, and psychological or social features. Some theorists propose other candidates as essential architectural aspects, including space Zevi or the organizing concept of the parti Malo Second, it may be that essentialism represents a false start.
A more determined nominalist has it that diversity among architectural objects is sufficient to quash the prospect that they share any essential aspects. Whether architecture always, only sometimes, or never is an artform. At the negative extreme, architecture may be viewed like any engineered artifact that only incidentally bears aesthetic value. Any view of even slightly more positive valence bows in the direction of intent to generate aesthetic value.
The classic Vitruvian view, for example, has it that engineered design and aesthetic design are conjoint intentional elements of architectural objects. At the positive extreme, that is, the suggestion that architecture is always and in all ways an art, we may lose any means of discriminating among built structures as art or not. This is a troubling prospect to exclusivists who see architecture as a high art only see below. In the negative camp, S. Davies argues that mere production of occasional artworks does not suffice to constitute an artform—crafts being a notable example—and the aim of architecture is frequently, or even typically, not the production of art but useful items that do not aim at artistic value.
In the positive camp, Stecker responds that we can carve out a subclass of architectural objects that are art even if not all are. He adds, by way of historical argument, that architecture was included among the artforms, by early agreement among aestheticians. We might have grounds for dismissing architecture from the canonical list if the nature of architecture has changed, and in this vein Stecker notes a rising tide of building design that is functionally oriented without significant aesthetic investment.
A further alternative is to say that architectural objects are all art works, or at least intended as such, within bounds. If the negative view is correct, then we need at least a workable set of criteria by which to discriminate architectural objects as art. To this end, we may draw on our intuitions, norms, or socially expressed views.
Further considerations may include the pertinent cultural tradition in which an architectural object is created, whether particular sorts of aesthetic qualities count more towards artwork status, or whether there is instrumental benefit in considering the object as art. What renders architecture distinct from other artforms if it is one. If architecture counts among the artforms, we may think that it has distinctive features as such. Another distinctive mark of architecture among the artforms is its nontraditional status as a narrative medium: the design of circulatory pathways allows architectural objects to communicate a sequence of events through the movement of visitors or inhabitants.
Whether architecture includes all built structures. Among the issues noted here, that of the greatest consequence is the question of what counts among architectural objects. On an inclusivist or expansive conception, architectural objects are those designed objects ranging over the whole of the built environment; on an exclusivist conception, the range describes only some coherent subset of the whole of the built environment. Examples of exclusivist subsets include a only built structures that people can occupy typically: houses, temples, office buildings, factories, etc.
An inclusivist conception entails a vastly larger architectural domain of objects—and areas of practice and inquiry. Proponents of exclusivity S. Stecker offers a putative variation, allowing that as a broader creative medium architecture has an inclusivist character—though, as an artform, architecture is exclusivist.
Scruton, for his part, identifies a specific intent to exalt: architecture as a pursuit has lofty goals or purposes, such that architectural objects do as well. One commonsense justification for exclusivity overlaps with an institutionalist perspective: laymen and connoisseurs alike can differentiate between the striking work of an architect and the humdrum, cookie-cutter building design of a draftsman. Then, contra Stecker, we can effortlessly count all built structures as architecture, though some such things—like garage doors or drainage ditches—will neither look like, nor be, art.
Another line of attack is to respond to exclusivists that architects simply have intentions to create objects that are, in one aspect, art—and that they may fail as art is beside the point. Further, it may be that recognizing intentions is irrelevant to judging a built structure as architecture, as when we judge as architecture the vernacular structures of foreign cultures.
Finally, inclusivism has its own commonsense justification: we standardly refer to a creator of a mundane built structure as the architect, which seems less a linguistic shortcut than recognition of the training and ethos attached to the creator of architectural objects. It is not clear how to craft intermediary positions between inclusivism and exclusivism, given that the various brands of exclusivism are not absolute and test cases are instead subject to judgment along any number of parameters.
Inclusivism, by contrast—along with any attached views on, for example, architectural appreciation or the nature of aesthetic success in architecture—is an absolutist doctrine. All elements of the built environment—and much else besides—must count as architectural objects, or else the view fails. Metaphysics The metaphysics of architecture covers a surprising range of questions for those who see in architecture no more than metaphysically mundane built structures or stones, wood, metal, and concrete arranged in a pleasing fashion: the nature of architectural objects and their properties and types, the relations of architectural parts and wholes, and the prospect of architectural causality.
Yet such intuitions may be misguided. For one, though some built structures—including roadways, bazaars, and newspaper kiosks—are not buildings per se, we may take them to have architectural properties and thereby consider them as architectural objects.
For another, the outputs of architecture are not limited to built structures but include as well models, sketches, and plans, and this variety prompts questions as to whether these are all reasonably considered architectural objects and which, if any, such form of output represents a primary sort of object in architecture. A third consideration is the focus in architecture, not solely on whole or individual buildings, but also on parts of buildings and buildings considered in context, among other buildings and in landscapes downwards and upwards compositionality or modularity.
A fourth consideration is that—as with music and photography—where multiple instantiations of a given work are possible, we may dispute whether the work is identical to the instancing built objects or else to the common entity e.
In addition to such challenges, the intuitive view must best alternative views. Instantiating architectural objects. To address one sort of question about the identity of an architectural object, we seek kind-wise criteria that establish when an object is architectural, instead of being non-architectural altogether or only derivatively so.
To address another sort of identity question, we look for instance-wise criteria that establish when an object is this or that singular object, or an instance of a multiple object. Ready criteria for identifying object instances in architecture include historical, environmental, stylistic, and formal features—all of which may be read as signaling intentions to design particular, self-contained architectural objects.
Architectural objects as ontologically distinctive. Yet another way to pick out architectural objects is to set them apart from other art objects or artifacts. An inclusivist may add features special to the built environment beyond the realm of buildings. Kinds of architectural ontologies. One option is concretism, which—in keeping with standard causal efficacy claims and expressed intentions of architects, clients, and users—suggests that architectural objects are either built structures or, on one variant, otherwise physically instantiated designs for such structures such as models.
Concretism is supported by an artifactual ontology that subsumes architectural objects into the class of objects that are the product of intentions, designs, and choices on the view that all art objects are best so understood, see Dutton , S. Davies , Thomasson , and Levinson One version of architectural artifactualism identifies buildings as systems Handler As against concretism, intentionality may be the mark of materially constituted, designed architectural objects but that need not commit us to their existence alone or their primacy among such objects.
Moreover, taking intentions as determinative leaves the concretist with the problem of shifting intentions and unintended goals attached to built structures over time. Abstractist alternatives follow a well-worn path in aesthetics Kivy ; Dodd ; critics include S. Davies ; Trivedi ; Kania ; D. Davies and accommodate an expansive architectural domain that includes historical, fantasy, and unbuilt works. Per classic Platonism, abstractism allows identification of an architectural object and concrete counterparts—including multiple replicas—by reference to a single, fixed, and unchanging background source of what real world structures or fantasy structures are and should look like.
Against abstractism, some architectural objects are apparently singular because historically and geographically contingent Ingarden ; it is unclear what an experiential account of architectural abstracta looks like; and abstracta are not created whereas architectural objects are. On his nominalist view, the objects turn out to be the built structures but an available realist interpretation—which may better accommodate the multiples that are key to his story—takes the objects to be the class of such structures.
Another alternative suggests that architecture consists in actions or performances per Currie ; D. Lopes proposes the possibility of an events or temporal parts ontology for a kind of built structure that passes in and out of existence, though De Clercq , counters that such can be rendered in a material objects ontology through temporal indexing. Yet other ontologies are contextual or social constructivist, proposing that architectural objects exist, beyond their status as structured materials, in virtue of ways our reality is framed, psychologically, socially, or culturally per Hartmann , Margolis A shift in any such frame may bring about shifting identity in an architectural object, in the manner of Borgesian art indiscernibles Danto , and it may count in favor of those ontologies that architectural indiscernibles are all around, in the form of repurposed built structures.
Picking an ontology has wide-ranging significance, relative to questions of material constitution, composition, part-whole relations, properties, and relations in architecture, as well as the character of architectural notation, language, cognition, or behavior; there are also ramifications for simplicity and complexity, and the nature of ornament, proportion, context, and style.
In architectural practice, the ontology of choice also colors perspectives on such matters as intellectual property rights, collaborative work, and preservation of architectural structures. This view is consonant with an equally customary perspective identifying architectural objects with architectural works.
Both alternatives share a commitment to some form of compositionality among architectural objects, that putting bits together yields aesthetically meaningful and utility-bearing composites, and taking them apart yields like results. In this, the mereological view represents a downward-compositionalism, suggesting that architectural aesthetics demands our focus on structural or other elements that can be meaningfully distinguished.
Yet architectural objects appear to have a role in causing events to happen or other things to come into being. For example, socio-psychological evidence suggests that architectural objects cause behavior, and much of architectural design is predicated on this claim. Thus, the presence of one or more architectural objects might have a causal effect on the genesis or character of one or more further works by dint of social utility, planning needs, or aesthetic drivers. If true, then—as with consequentialism in ethics—further questions arise regarding the range of causal possibilities.
Where ethicists ask whether a bad may generate a good, we may ask whether the presence or construction of a functionally or aesthetically impoverished architectural object might occasion the presence or construction of a more useful or pleasing architectural object.
Architectural Language and Notation The notion that there is or should be an architectural language—or more than one—has a provenance dating to ancient times. Variations of the thesis range over elements of an architectural language, how it may be used, and from whence it may be derived.
The core idea, in its most prominent form, is that architecture as a corpus of design ideas realized or otherwise features a set of fundamental design and style elements which can be combined and related according to a set of rules syntax , capable of constituting or parlaying meaning semantics , and subject to contextual sensitivity and internal or relational constraints on deployment and realization pragmatics. Beyond these structural parallels with basic facets of natural language, it is held that the purposes and possibilities of architecture qua language yield further parallels, best explained by the notion that architecture has, or even is, a language.
Proponents of such views tend to subscribe, however, to defenses rooted in one or another feature of language. On syntactically-inspired views—the perspectives most indebted to the Vitruvian account—there is at least one architectural grammar or set of rules for guiding proper assemblage of parts and orientation, relation, and combination of whole architectural objects. Some late twentieth century architectural theory embraced a grammar framework Alexander et al.
Adherents of the view Summerson assign themselves the central task of identifying such rules. Even if this is achieved, though, a greater puzzle is whether there are identifiably preferable syntaxes—and what the criteria should look like. On a semantics-inspired view, architectural objects or their component parts bear meanings. A primary motivation for this view is that, like objects of other artforms, architectural objects are expressive, which suggests that what they express is meaning Donougho Proponents point to an array of architectural meanings, internal or external to the object.
The former tells us something about the architectural object its function or internal composition or how it relates to other architectural objects stylistic conventions ; the latter tells us something about the world, as for example, national or cultural associations per geographically variant design vocabularies , theological or spiritual significance per religious design vocabularies , or per Hegel , the Absolute Spirit.
A more ambitious proposal Baird has it that architectural objects exhibit such semantic phenomena as metaphor, metonymy, or ambiguity. Primarily, though, buildings function symbolically through exemplification literal or explicit denotation or expression metaphorical exemplification of properties of ideas, sentiments, or objects in the world.
While Goodman may have identified a denotative role for buildings, this is not clearly a semantic role. A third approach, rooted in semiotics, emphasizes the role of architectural objects as signs that prompt spectator behavior Koenig , or indicate aspects of themselves, such as function Eco In either case, architectural objects are taken to operate as communicative systems Donougho The architectural language thesis, in its various forms, is widely discredited in recent philosophy of architecture.
To begin with, architecture features some qualities and exhibits some phenomena resembling those of natural language, but the parallels are neither comprehensive nor fully compelling. On the syntactic side, architecture may feature some brand of compositionality but different parts of architectural objects do not appear to function as do phrases or clauses Donougho As regards semantics, no likely candidate for an architectural vocabulary regularly yields any specific class or instance of meaning.
Nor are there truth conditions such as might supply the meaning of a well-defined architectural sequence Taurens As for pragmatics, there is no clear parallel with implicature or related phenomena, hence architecture is incapable of the accuracy or concision of expression we associate with language Clarke and Crossley Finally, relative to semiotics, not all—or even many—buildings signify and we would only want some to do so.
Regarding semantics, whatever we gain in fixing particular meanings to architectural objects, we stand to lose in fungibility of their forms. In the end, it is useful to ask what work we expect the architecture-as-language thesis to do. One view Alexander et al. However, it may be sufficient to highlight ways in which architecture is like a language, though they do not add up to an architectural language Forty If so, then the thesis works best as a powerful metaphor rather than as literal truth.
Goodman suggests that architecture is a borderline case of an allographic artform, as its notational schemes—in the form of plans—are intended to guarantee that all objects as are compliant are genuine instances of the work. Said intention, Goodman proposes, is not fulfilled. Goodman, for his part, balks at taking architecture to be truly allographic given the core role of history and context in generating particular structures, and notational ambiguity that marks the analog medium of traditional plans.
Digital design may well resolve the ambiguity problem, however, and allow indexing for history and context, rendering architecture allographic per Goodmanian criteria S. Fisher b. Thus, architectural formalism suggests that the sum total of aesthetic properties of an architectural object are or arise from formal properties, such that our aesthetic judgments are warranted based on experience and assessment of just those properties.
As architectural objects are typically non-representational and designed with manipulation and relation of forms as a primary task, it is natural that their formal properties be seen as playing a central role in our aesthetic appreciation of them.
Our aesthetic judgment of I. Variants of architectural formalism take formal properties as the properties of or arising from the material or physical properties of built structures as consonant with concretism , or as the properties of or arising from the total properties specified by a set of formal parameters we identify with the architectural object as consonant with abstractism.
For the merelogico-formalist, it might count in favor of considering such parts as independent architectural objects that we can judge those parts on a formal basis alone. Other, non-formal aspects of an architectural object are discounted as contributing to its success. Mitrovic , embraces a normative formalist approach to criticism, on the grounds that the deeply visual nature of much cognition militates against basing appreciation or evaluation of architectural objects exclusively or primarily on features we understand through non-visual means such as context or history provide.
None of this judgment appears to have particular roots in forms Jefferson deployed, except as befit a neo-classical style—which style may be best grasped in historicist terms. In the latter case, beauty stands in relation to concepts with which we associate architectural objects, which for such objects are typically the ends towards which they are created.
Per Parsons and Carlson , the problem with such intentionalist accounts in architecture or elsewhere where functional beauty pertains is that functions change. This view is modeled on a selected effects account of biological functions, as translated into a marketplace-driven scheme, where evolution of design solutions is driven by demand over time. Functional beauty faces several challenges. Even in their advocacy, Parsons and Carlson caution against the suggestion that function solely determines form, as that would neglect other features of artifacts not possibly highlighted by their functions.
Such features include cultural significance or aspects of non-dependent beauty as may be found in, for example, architectural ornament. In the architectural realm, another challenge is posed by ruins, which may be beautiful but have no functions. To the charge that these represent counterexamples to functional beauty theory, one tack is to answer that if ruins represent architectural objects, they are dysfunctional and their beauty is manifest in non-functional ways Parsons and Carlson.
Functional beauty theory is saved on the whole but not as universally characteristic of architectural objects. A further challenge casts doubt on seeing functional beauty as the only variant of dependent beauty, or beauty as the sole aesthetic valence of interest to a viable notion of dependent aesthetic properties.
In an architectural vein, those variants may include spiritual, emotional, or conceptual frameworks we bring to our grasp of such built structures as houses of worship, memorials, or triumphal arches. We can tell functional stories about these sorts of structures in sociological or psychological analyses but not or not only , as functional beauty accounts would have it, in terms of their mechanical or system-wise functioning.
Looking beyond functional beauty—or more broadly, dependent beauty—accounts of architecture, an inclusivist will seek the thread that ties together architectural objects with aesthetic properties of all description, be they functional, otherwise dependent, or freely independently endowed with beauty or other such properties. Thus, a modernist gas station and a Tschumi folie may share an elegance unrelated to functional ascription or the lack thereof.
A general theory of architectural objects, along inclusivist lines, suggests at least a moderate formalism. The philosophy of architecture is generally in agreement, though architectural objects may be of special character in this regard, as our experiences of them gives rise to or influences an extended range of psychological states.
A piece of that environmental understanding is local to the built structure itself: the ways we experience architectural objects may contribute to how we comprehend, and interact with, those objects. In addition to facilitating understanding, appreciation, or use of architectural objects, experience might also play—or reflect—a constitutive role.
The content and corresponding faculties of architectural experience likely include some mix of the cognitive, emotive, and sensual. Whereas an abstractist may claim that experience of architectural objects is solely a matter of intellectual grasp, even an anti-abstractist formalist needs the sensory as well to account for experience of concrete shapes.
Abstractist intellectualism notwithstanding, accounts of architectural experience typically focus on multiple content modalities. The idea is that fully comprehending the pleasure of the experience and thereby establishing its aesthetic value requires cognition, in the form of attention to details and understanding of the architectural object. We are at all turns required to make interpretative choices in parsing ambiguous or multiform aspects of the built environment.
Scruton focuses on voluntary deployment of the imagination in perception at a macro-level, concerning such matters as whether we see a sequence of columns as grouped one way or another, or see pilasters as ornamental or structural. A generalized version of this account looks to perceptual tasks at a more granular level.
Our experiences of space and spatial positioning, depth, edge detection, color, and light yield multiple interpretative possibilities across architectural objects, including the simplest forms and smallest or largest parts of objects. These perceptual tasks are pervasive and constant; sometimes involuntary and in the background, and other times as shaped by our willful imagining. The dimensions of architectural experience are even larger when taking into account the full breadth of the sensual.
Following a long tradition of viewing architecture through art historical lenses, Scruton focuses on architectural experience as primarily visual and static. In addition, though, other sensory modalities are factors: changes in aesthetic judgments follow changes in those other sensory experiences Sauchelli a.
Such modalities among the non-visual include the tactile, aural, and olfactory. Moreover, much architectural experience is proprioceptive, incorporating visual information into a broader set of stimuli to grasp bodily position and movement in relation to the built environment. Sensation of movement might seem irrelevant to experiencing an immobile object, save for the fact that, in architecture as in sculpture not all facets of a given whole work, or many other architectural objects, can be perceived at the same time.
The spectator or user must move around or within the object to perceive any significant percentage of it, much less the whole. As architectural objects standardly shape our actual, imagined, or remembered bodily engagement, so are our richest experiences of architecture informed by such engagement J.
Robinson Central as bodily experience may be, it cannot be the only source of architectural beliefs. Considering the great breadth of the architectural enterprise, it may not even be the best source. On these and other bases an architectural knowledge of special character is built. In particular, architectural beliefs encompass judgments of aesthetic properties of the built environment, are norm-governed in some fashion, and may be transmissible via testimony. Yet other aspects of knowing architectural objects diverge from the well-worn path, as reflective of special characteristics of the architectural enterprise and its products and consumption.
Theoretical and historical brands of architectural knowledge encompass viable beliefs about familiar core concerns of architecture, including basic design elements of the built environment; their combinations, relations, and properties; their style; external factors social, economic, cultural, etc. Some such beliefs are empirically supported; others not. Practical brands of architectural knowledge encompass viable beliefs about the engineering and technical means of constructing architectural objects, ensuring structural integrity, and guaranteeing mechanical function, socially, industrially, or ecologically beneficial use.
Such beliefs—particularly as hitched to formalized, experimental, or predictive dimensions of the enterprise—are sometimes seen as constituting an architectural science. They are typically though not exclusively empirical in character and, to some tastes, relegated to a status of adjunct architectural knowledge, that is, useful for architecture but outside the domain proper.
What counts as practical knowledge in architecture is often seen as encompassing beliefs of a largely non-aesthetic nature. Yet other categories reflect a range of types and sources of architectural knowledge. Another division distinguishes between architectural beliefs associated with creators and users. My experience of a built structure qua creator is perforce different than my experience of the same structure qua user, and the sorts of beliefs I arrive at may differ accordingly.
As architect, Jones believes that an arch of one design but not another will keep the bridge up; as someone strolling underneath the bridge, Smith believes that an arch of a different design would have been a greater aesthetic success. This much accords with other artforms featuring practical functions. Further, architectural beliefs may differ by their technical or non-technical nature; by perspective and role of the belief-holder; or by facts about physical experience of the work or other modalities of belief acquisition.
Architectural knowledge in broader context. To see how architectural knowledge may be similar to, or differ from, aesthetic knowledge generally, consider two dimensions of aesthetic knowledge, knowing through art and knowing about art Kieran and Lopes As concerns knowing through architecture, cognitive content arises in reflecting—to varying degrees—taste and style sensibilities of its creators, structural properties per engineering principles deployed; and cultural and social values of historical, communal, and economic contexts.
To know a built structure in this regard is to know such matters as the tradition in which it is built; design aspirations of the architect and initial occupants; and intentions relative to contributing to the built or natural landscape. The success of this thesis is predicated on successful communication through architectural objects, whether as symbols or otherwise.
Architectural belief and knowledge have as well wholly distinctive features, reflective of special characteristics of the domain, its practice, and its objects. These include: Beliefs about systems. Architectural objects as wholes are systems or system-like, in that they constitute sets of interrelated structural components, with characteristic behavior or processes yielding outputs from inputs, and where the parts are connected by distinctive structural and behavioral relations Boyce That we take whole architectural objects to be or to be represented as systems or system-like suggests how architectural beliefs are distinctive among beliefs about artworks.
Whereas the first two functional and interactional features are typical to all design, the third feature marks architecture as an artform that, in providing an immersive and systemic physical environment, intensely draws on and shapes social, psychological, and economic features of experience. Our beliefs about architectural objects and interactions with and in them are shaped correspondingly, in ways that do not arise in engagement with other artforms.
Partial and full information. Representation in architecture encompasses multiple modes, including built objects, physical models, virtual models, data arrays, plans, sketches, photographs, and drawings. Each such mode may be viable as representing an architectural object just in case some features of the object are adequately, accurately, regularly, and optimally represented through the mode.
This view of viable representation in architecture is at odds with the standards for such in other artforms. Consider a representation of the Mona Lisa. If you do not have complete visual access through the representation from any acceptable angle to the full tableau, you may be said to lack full acquaintance with the work through the representation, and your consequent aesthetic beliefs about the Mona Lisa may be discounted accordingly. By contrast, if architectural beliefs required anything like full acquaintance with the object or fully informed testimony to be viable, our architectural beliefs would not typically or frequently be viable.
Socially constructed knowledge. In architecture, as in other design fields, design problems are not thoroughly or fully articulated all at once or by any particular individual. The primary components of design knowledge—problems and their possible solutions—are instead distributed across persons. Art and architecture worlds per se are undoubtedly not a sole source of epistemic norms. It may be thought that qualities of architecture such as systematicity and the deeply social character of the discipline are immaterial to aesthetic beliefs.
However, architecture is a holistic enterprise: a design decision to cantilever a terrace is at once of aesthetic and engineering significance. In like fashion, that architectural objects constitute systems is pertinent in shaping aesthetic beliefs because there are more and less attractive ways to shape the flow of persons, or even electricity, through a built structure.
And that architectural objects are designed through social processes has import for corresponding aesthetic beliefs. Appreciation goes beyond knowledge, too, insofar as we may know an architectural object and its qualities without appreciating it.
Thus, Winters proposes that appreciating architecture consists in enjoyment of architectural objects from experience, tout court , as wed to understanding them, where the latter consists in grasping their aesthetic significance in specifically visual fashion, and critically assessing the judgment of architects in addressing design challenges.
Architectural appreciation may be built on the judgment of others; it is essential to rendering judgment. Accordingly, learning to appreciate architectural objects is a cornerstone of architectural education. A key contributing feature in this last regard is acquiring agility with classifying in the domain Leder et al.
The appreciation and judgment of architectural objects are typically thought to reflect aesthetic and utility-wise considerations, and engage individual perspective, experience, reasoning, and reflection such as we associate with appreciating and judging in other artforms. One question regarding appreciation is whether there is a special mode attached to architectural objects.
We might think this is so given that, unlike most arts though very like other design forms , appreciation in architecture is aesthetic and utility-oriented. A resulting puzzle is whether, and under what circumstances, we might have one without the other. Further questions regarding appreciation concern the relative roles in appreciation of individual experience of architecture, as against the social or the environmental.
Individual Appreciation. The prevailing philosophical view of architectural appreciation is a psychological account with debts to the Kantian tradition: direct, immediate aesthetic experiences of architectural objects among individuals constitute the basis of appreciation.
Iseminger provides a general aesthetics account in this vein. A primary variant has it that architectural appreciation is the product of individual cognition of the content, form, properties, and relations of architectural objects. A recent variation suggests that, in addition to or in lieu of cognitive response, physiological experience proprioception is a central source of beliefs associated with architectural appreciation.
On either model, it is experience of individuals that feeds and influences appreciation. Social and Environmental Role in Architectural Appreciation. Direct, immediate individual experience is not the only source of information shaping architectural appreciation. Considering the breadth of the architectural enterprise, it may not even be the best source. Others include access to information about works through standard representational modes that are not the works themselves for example, drawings or photographs , transmission of tacit working knowledge through apprenticeship learning, and collective belief formation through client briefings and studio crits.
Architectural appreciation is social in building on our understanding of architectural objects as it develops, and matures, in experience of a built structure with and in relation to other individuals and groups of people. Indeed, a central goal of architectural education is structured imparting of collective wisdom as to how to best classify architectural objects and, relatedly, what the markers of appreciation have looked like, or should look like—as well as how they articulate with practical knowledge.
Further, architectural appreciation is environmental in building on our understanding of architectural objects based on experiences in relation to their natural and built surroundings. On one view, an architectural object may be more difficult to appreciate if we find that relation unexpected, or contrary to normative sensibility Carlson If, however, appreciation does not require enjoyment or satisfaction of any sort—and instead engages our understanding of, for example, what was intended and why—we may well appreciate in its own right an architectural object that has a surprising, even obnoxious relation to its surroundings.
Architectural Ethics Some problems of architectural ethics are characteristic of a range of typical moral dilemmas—agent-centered, norms-oriented concerns—as may arise for architects. In addition to a traditional set of questions applied to the architectural domain, architectural ethics also addresses problems special to the discipline and practice—as shaped by its social, public, practical, and artistic nature.
As conceptually prior to a normative ethics of architectural practice, a meta-ethics of architecture assesses alternate ethical modalities, such as whether architecture might be considered moral or immoral relative to its objects built structures or to its practices as a set of institutions or social phenomena. Another meta-ethical issue concerns whether moralism or autonomism best characterizes the relationship of aesthetics to ethics, as that plays out in architecture.
Ethical modalities of architecture. There are three typical candidate modalities of ethics in architecture. For one, there is the establishment of criteria for ethical norms of the enterprise such as architects in practice may observe. For example, architects can craft designs in ways that lower the likelihood of cost overruns and enhance safety. In an interpersonal vein, architects can represent their work honestly to clients or contractors. Another modality—beyond enterprise-defined ethical norms—is pursuit of criteria to gauge architects as moral agents broadly producing or doing good or bad in the world.
In art such work has been variously described as contextual practice, site-specific art and public art; in architecture it has been described as conceptual design and urban intervention. I do so to provide starting points for considering the relationship between art and architecture with reference to several different theoretical themes. Theoretical ideas have suggested the conceptual framework for Art and Architecture. In it I deal with how the terms site, place and space have been defined in relation to one another in recent theoretical debates.
Postmodern Culture London: Pluto Press, pp. This essay was originally published in October 8 Spring Having laid down the structure for this book in a synchronic fashion, it became apparent to me that it was impossible to talk of work made in the present without reference to either the past or the future.
For this reason, I take each section backwards to locate it in a broader historical trajectory, but also forward to speculate on future possibilities. Looking backwards, I make connections with the work of minimal, conceptual, land and performance artists of the s and s, whose work has in many cases been informed by an interest in architecture and public space. Such projects play an important role in providing a historical perspective on our current condition both in terms of art and architectural discourse as well as wider critical, cultural and spatial debates.
The contemporary projects I focus on engage with the trajectories set up by the earlier works, and have been in the main produced by artists operating outside galleries, materially and ideologically. In this book I do not deal equally with art and architecture. Since my interest is in practices that are critical and spatial, I have discovered that such work tends to occur more often in the domain of art, yet it offers architecture a chance to reflect on its own modes of operation. Sometimes I can point towards certain kinds of architectural projects already occurring but in other cases I can only speculate.
Davidson ed. When I first came into contact with the discourse on public art, it changed my understanding of this relationship. Artists value architecture for its social function, whereas architects value art as an unfettered form of creativity. Unlike architecture, art may not be functional in traditional terms, for example in responding to social needs, giving shelter when it rains or designing a room in which to perform open-heart surgery, but we could say that art is functional in providing certain kinds of tools for self- reflection, critical thinking and social change.
If we consider this expanded version of the term function in relation to architecture, we realize that architecture is seldom given the opportunity to have no function or to consider the construction of critical concepts as its most important purpose. When art is located outside the gallery, the parameters that define it are called into question and all sorts of new possibilities for thinking about the relationship between art and architecture are opened up. Art has to engage with the kinds of restraints and controls to which only architecture is usually subject.
But in other sites and situations art can adopt the critical functions outlined above and works can be positioned in ways that make it possible to question the terms of engagement of the projects themselves. This type of public art practice is critically engaged; it works in relation to dominant ideologies yet at the same time questions them; and it explores the operations of particular disciplinary procedures — art and architecture — while also drawing attention to wider social and political problems; it might best be called critical spatial practice.
In the late s it appeared that artists in Canada and on the west coast of the USA were leading the way in public art. They were developing practices out of a community base, which rather than avoid the distinctions between different modes of art, worked to extend and critique them. Few galleries wish to move outside their own economic circuits and frames of reference; however, there are changes in the commissioning of public art, which indicate a move from object-based to process-based work and towards a more critical mode of practice.
In Art, Space and the City, cultural theorist Malcolm Miles describes two of the main pitfalls of public art, its use as wallpaper to cover over social conflict and tensions and as a monument to 8 promote the aspirations of corporate sponsors and dominant ideologies. But is it Art? Perhaps because of these problems, terms such as site-specific or contextual art have been used more recently to describe art outside galleries.
I will, however, continue to use the term for a while longer here since the tensions at play in discussions around public art allow us to examine the ideologies at work in maintaining distinctions between public and private space. The terms appear as social and spatial metaphors in geography, anthropology and sociology, as terms of ownership in 9 Chris Burden, quoted in Suzi Gablik, The Reenchantment of Art London: Thames and Hudson, pp.
See Patricia C. Public and private, and the variations between these two terms, mean different things to different people — protected isolation or unwelcome containment, intrusion or invitation, exclusion or segregation.
And as the privatization of public space increasingly occurs in all directions — extending outwards to all regions of the globe and inwards to hidden reaches of the mind — we need to define carefully how we use the terms. But if public space relies on democracy and vice versa, what kind of democracy are we talking about?
Democratic public space is frequently endowed with unified properties, but one of the problems of aiming for a homogenous public is the avoidance of difference. Philosopher Chantal Mouffe has argued instead for radical democracy, a form of democracy that is able to embrace conflict and passion.
But if we take instead a liberal-rights-based perspective, then privacy is understood to provide positive qualities, such as the right to be alone, to confidentiality and the safeguarding of individuality. For example, public art located outside the private institution of the art gallery may 12 See Chantal Mouffe, The Return of the Political London: Verso, This term draws attention not only to the importance of the critical, but also to the spatial, indicating the interest in exploring the specifically spatial aspects of interdisciplinary processes or practices that operate between art and architecture.
See also Jane Rendell ed. McHale bemoans the preponderance of generalized theoretical texts, and laments the loss of a theory specifically derived from a study of literature, a theory that lies between the general and the specific. In recent collections of architectural theory from the USA, no attempt is made to distinguish between theories that have been generated out of their own disciplines and those that have come from elsewhere. In the introduction to one of these collections, Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture, Kate Nesbitt does choose to separate architecture theory 17 from criticism and history; while in another, Architecture Theory since , K.
Michael Hays sees architecture theory as a form of mediation between architectural form and social context. The difference is that in the UK the tendency has been to favour critical theory. Hays ed. The authors of the essays in InterSections: Architectural History and Critical Theory, a book I edited with Iain Borden, examine the relationship between architectural history and critical theory, demonstrating different modes of writing theorised histories, bringing to the surface questions of critical methodology.
Critical theory is a phrase that refers to the work of a group of theorists and philosophers called the Frankfurt School operating in the early twentieth century. Hegel, the political economist Karl Marx, and the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
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It is precisely for this reason that, despite being a passionate advocate of interdisciplinarity in current art, architectural practice and academic debate, I also remain sceptical because real engagement in interdisciplinary work is not simply procedural but demanding emotionally as well as intellectually and politically, demanding because this way of working requires us to be critical of what we do and open to change. In Art and Architecture I operate across this interdisciplinary terrain, seeking to make a new kind of relationship between theory, specifically critical theories that are spatial, and art and architectural practice.
The theoretical ideas I introduce at the start of each section have not been used to generate any of the works I go on to describe. Rather than use theory to explain practice or practice to justify theory, the point of theory in Art and Architecture is to articulate a place between art and architecture; by discussing spatial concepts in theoretical writings I open up a place between art and architecture that allows works to be explored in relation to one another as forms of critical spatial practice.
I introduce theoretical concerns at the beginning of each section in order to set a scene, to frame a debate, to raise particular questions or issues that are then further explored 29 through practice. The thematics raised by the theories have allowed me to select a particular range of artworks and architectural projects in each of the three sections to investigate. Here, in this place between, discussions of theoretical ideas can draw attention to particular forms of practice and then, moving back in the other direction, these works, and the connections and differences between them brought to the fore by considering them as forms of critical spatial practice, in turn pose questions of the concepts.
So, if theoretical ideas have informed my choice of artworks and architectural projects and suggested to me new ways of thinking about them, it is also the case that the works themselves take the theoretical ideas in new and unexpected directions. And to draw this set of introductory ideas into a summarizing question: if critical spatial practice provides such a rich terrain for exploring the relationship between theory and practice as well as art and architecture, how to write this place between?
The three chapters in Section 1 relate current discussions of off-site curating and site-specific art to the critical debates on site that emerged in connection with minimalist and land art in the late s and theories of space and place in contemporary cultural geography.
Indeed, self-critique, along with culture, context, alterity and interdisciplinarity, have been noted as aspects of anthropological research to impact on fine art practice. See also Julie H. Reiss argues that site-specificity is one of the key characteristics of installation art.
In the chapter I also look at the UK, where programmes of spatial dispersal in recent curatorial practice have located art outside the gallery in multiple sites, citywide or even countrywide. This kind of work takes its inspiration from the ongoing projects at Munster and Documenta at Kassel where artworks are curated throughout the city.
In Chapter 2, although the works are located in different sites and are produced over varying lengths of time, the overall spatial pattern produced emerges at once, and could therefore by thought of as a constellation. Contemporary practice seems to raise new questions about terminology and method. Is the expanded field best understood in terms of site, place or space? Can the processes of art, architecture and landscape design be better described in an interdisciplinary way as spatial practices?
Through the dialectical processes of historical materialism, change happened over time not through space. Throughout the s, feminist geographers like Liz Bondi, Massey, Linda McDowell and Gillian Rose played a key role in extending and developing much of this work, arguing for attention to gender as well as class in the production of space. See footnote 4. Academics from all kinds of disciplines, from art history to cultural studies, turned to geography for a rigorous and theoretically informed analysis of the relationship between spatial and social relations, and of place and identity.
However, although several authors in the January, vol. In arguing for space as dynamic and constituted through practice, place somehow becomes 49 Mike Crang and Nigel Thrift eds Thinking Space London: Routledge, Tomasik Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, A place lieu is the order of whatever kind in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence.
It thus excludes the possibility of two things being in the same location place. A place is thus an instantaneous configuration of positions. It implies an indication of stability. A space exists when one takes into consideration vectors of direction, velocities, and time variables. Thus space is composed of intersections of mobile elements. It is in a sense actuated by the ensemble of movements deployed within it.
Space occurs as the effect produced by the operations that orient it, situate it, temporalize it, and make it function in a polyvalent unity of conflictual programmes or contractual proximities. On this view, in relation to place, space is like the word when it is spoken, that is when it is caught in the ambiguity of an actualization … situated as the act of a present or of a time.
I examine the work of commissioning agencies like Artangel who work with selected artists to make artworks in unexpected places in the city. As in Chapter 2, the spatial pattern produced can be considered a constellation, but in Chapter 3 this is a 53 de Certeau, Practice of Everyday Life, p.
A little like a view of the night sky in which each one of the many stars we can see has a different life span; when viewed as a constellation over time, the different sites for artworks past or present, are positioned in relation to one another, each bringing their own histories. For Massey, although a place may comprise one articulation of the spatial or one particular moment in a network of social relations, each point of view is contingent on and subject to change.
His examination of places of transition, such as airports, has provided an account of places that are unfixed in terms of the activities associated with them and the locational significance ascribed to them. In the following three chapters I attempt to use all three terms as different processes involved in critical spatial practice: space in connection to social relations, place with reference to the creation of cultural meanings and site with a focus on aesthetic production.
I reserve use of the term location to define the physical location of an art or architectural work. See also Paul C. Adams, Steven Hoelscher and Karen E. It was suggested that this very remoteness has allowed the work to resonate in more speculative ways, that indeed the imagination of the audience might today be the most potent place land art occupies.
Being feet long and 15 feet wide where it joins the shore, the jetty is made of tons of black basalt rocks and earth taken from the site. Stimulated largely by the film Holt and Smithson made of its construction, more recent criticism has focused on the performative aspects of the work. The project alerted him to ways of working outside the gallery, to consider how works might be viewed from the air and to think about how to communicate aspects of exterior works to passengers in the terminal building.
Robert Smithson, pp. Each subdivision of the Nonsite contains sand from the site shown on the map. Tours between the Nonsite and site are possible. This discussion was first published in Avalanche Magazine Fall p. Abrams Inc, p. Here he lists the qualities of sites and non-sites. Inseparable from its context, much land art was intended as a critique of the gallery system and the role of art as commodity.
However, resisting the site of the gallery by physically locating work outside does not necessarily involve operating outside the institution of the gallery, economically and culturally. Indeed, many works of land art would not exist without the funding of private patrons. Many works of land art are positioned in remote sites, resulting in audiences of dedicated specialists. The only public access to such works is photographic. From its early days Dia has supported projects that because of their nature and scale require unusual locations.
Friedrich made an initial connection with de Maria in , later Smithson and then in , Turrell. The Lone Star Foundation, set up in , had a different objective — to make a collection. In the building that today houses the Dia Center for the Arts on 22nd Street was purchased in order to commission works from artists who came to maturity in the s, as well as mid- career artists and a younger generation of artists. The premise was: 1 floor, 1 artist, 1 year. Some of these works have ended up becoming permanent, such as the rooftop project by Dan Graham.
See also www. To experience the work, you must book in advance to stay in a residence at the site that takes a maximum of six visitors and visit at a time of year when lightning is expected. The artist describes how the work is to be viewed: The land is not the setting for the work but part of the work. A simple walk around the perimeter of the poles takes approximately two hours. It is intended the work be viewed alone, or in the company of a very small group of people, over at least a hour period.
At West Broadway , on a polished wooden floor between the grids of iron columns, de Maria placed brass rods in five parallel rows of rods each. Each rod is placed so that the spaces between the rods increase by five millimetres with each consecutive space from front to back. The earth has been treated with chemicals to keep it inert, more like the implacable brass, but the contexts into which these materials have 77 Walter de Maria, quoted in Archer et al.
In Dia installed five basalt stone columns, each paired with a tree, at West 22nd Street and in another eight tree and basalt pairs were planted down 22nd Street from 10th to 11th Avenues. Beuys intended the work to be a social sculpture, a work of art made by many and transformed each time a tree was planted and a marker sited. The pavilion consists of a glass rectangle surrounding a cylindrical form also constructed of glass. The cylinder is almost the same size and shape as the water towers perched on the roofs around.
At other times you are confronted by your own reflection, looking back — glass or mirror? It all depends on where you stand and whether clouds are obscuring the sun at that moment. Like many other works by Dan Graham, this one combines the cube and cylinder. Graham argues that the cube references the grid of the city and modernist architecture, while the cylinder relates the surface of the body to the horizon line.
The artist always intended the park to be a place for performance, with timber flooring like that of the boardwalk extending New York City from Battery Park, and rubberized parapet walls so that children could play safely. On the roof you are on the outside of the building but still occupying gallery territory.
Are you in a site or a non-site? Or are you off-site? How close to the physical fabric of the gallery does a work need to be to be off- site? On my visit to the gallery the room was empty except for a platform made 80 The park includes a pavilion designed by the artist Dan Graham in collaboration with architects Moji Baratloo and Clifton Balch and a video salon with a coffee bar showing work selected by the artist.
Stepping up onto this platform, I walked through the window, from inside to outside, onto a scaffolding gangway two floors above the street. A slice of Las Vegas on the Finchley Road, it is the kind of place that could easily be described as hyper-real, a simulacrum or an empty signifier. But in pointing only to each other, their relationship is entirely self-referential; they make no attempt to relate to their immediate context.
Neither sign can be described as marking a site or non-site; the two are entirely equivalent, each one bound up in the other. If art is placed outside a gallery, why should it be more accessible, how and to whom? If art is placed outside a gallery, should it be closely related to a particular site, which site and in what way?
When the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham moved site, artist Tania Kovats, supported by a Royal Society of Arts grant, worked with Levitt Bernstein architects to generate ideas for the new building. Already in , there were nostalgic feelings about the once hated concrete architecture of the s, soon to be removed, as well as growing cynicism towards the supposedly affluent global future emerging in its wake.
In a conversation I had with an off-site curator Deborah Kermode, who had facilitated the work, she placed emphasis not on the aesthetics of the outcome but on how the process of working with the various participants had produced a social space at the heart of the project. Looking past the invigilator sitting behind a table with brochures and a sign-in book, I saw that the space beyond was occupied by a structure of ten boxes stacked up, two high, made of metal 85 See As It Is, off-site exhibition by Ikon Gallery, Birmingham ; also Claire Doherty ed.
The whole structure was no more than two metres high. It was possible to crawl in through the entrance onto a pink-carpeted floor. In one place I could stand full height and look into all the rooms; one had a television, another had a computer and two more had sleeping sections with clean white duvets. The lack of weatherproof finishes, the omission of any plumbing and the difficulty the construction creates for its occupants in terms of size and scale, make it clear that this is not a machine in which it is easy to live.
This work might look like architecture but we are not allowed to take a nap here, let alone take up residence; rather, we are asked to think about what that might mean illus. In the UK, works commissioned as part of off- site programmes are identified as existing within the gallery system, but usually under a different team of curators from those who oversee the internal spaces of the gallery. There is an expectation, not always made explicit, that these off-site works should be accessible to the general public and aligned with the needs of an educational programme.
Thus, the works, artists and curators connected with off-site programmes are allocated a special role within the gallery system, one that on many occasions, while not openly or formally acknowledged as such, is not assigned the same status as those located inside the physical site of the gallery. How do the dialectical pairings of site and non-site, site and off-site, get played out in architecture?
Although in art discourse the term site-specific usually infers a critically informed response to a site, in architecture the term site tends to define a location that can be measured in terms of physical rather than cultural qualities, such as geometry, geology and aspect.
Anita Berrizbeitia and Linda Pollak offer us five ways of thinking about the relationship between architecture and site: reciprocity, materiality, threshold, insertion and infrastructure. In a former quarry in the industrial estates on the outskirts of Barcelona, architects Enric Miralles and Carmen Pinos created the Iqualada cemetery. Wooden sleepers the length of bodies lie across the main route through the site between tombs stacked up into both hillsides.
Each tomb has a concrete surround, a photograph and more often than not a small sprig of flowers. In between the tombs, concrete stairs lead up, while through a hole cut through the ground of the roof, a circular hole casts light down. On the top, one can circle this skylight, which forms a sculpture in the soft grass, and look down into the canyon of graves. This condition, however, is not usual for architectural production. More commonly, the sites of material extraction are not physically linked to the location where architecture is built, but might be dispersed around the globe.
Current debates on environmental issues have been slow to influence the construction industry, yet there are examples of architectural projects that are exemplary in focusing on questions of sustainability. The ethical conditions operating at the sites of material extraction, as well as the distances materials must travel from their place of origin to their point of use, have been questions at the heart of much environmental activism and are most obviously visible in debates on agriculture and food consumption, but are yet to influence the production of urban and architectural space.
Although the reuse of materials found on the site may appear to adopt processes similar to land art, the process of architectural design is so enmeshed in institutional codes that it tends towards producing the qualities Smithson 92 Morris, Earthworks. Where are the sites architects must investigate and invent for critiquing the systems within which they operate? Visitors to the gallery could cross over to the bookshop and pick up leaflets on anarchism.
Working in a similar manner, Mexican artist Juan Cruz engaged with the cultural processes that regulate planning. Each was a proposal to build part of a fictitious Castilian village. For Cruz, this village operated as a metaphor for social interaction. For each application he wrote a fictional description of a site in the village. He suggested, for example, that the Melbourne Museum, a site of local gossip and often mistaken by tourists as a hotel, should be a brothel.
The project existed as 12 sheets of A1 paper displayed on the relevant sites. When a construction company tendered for one of the proposals, the project threatened to become a reality. The relationship constructed between imagined and real becomes quite complicated here.
In professional practice, architectural drawings describe an intended physical construction, whereas critical practitioners often use the same codes to question the assumptions implicit in architectural discourse. Here the sites of architectural education, exhibitions and publishing are essential to architectural design in providing places to explore the critical and conceptual potential of architecture.
It is important, however, not to use the square as a map that defines a finite set of categories but rather to regard it a mapping that remains open to the emergence of new possibilities. Today, definitions and categorizations of art are occurring across multiple disciplines rather than within one, requiring new terms and modes of thinking that allow us to identify the particularities and differences of the various related practices in ways that go beyond opposition.
To do this I propose that we need to understand artworks as products of specific processes, of production and reception, that operate within a further expanded and interdisciplinary field, where terms are not only defined through one discipline but by many simultaneously. Perron and Frank H. Collins Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, p. I shall explore this situation through a project that took place in the UK in the late s. Bourneville was built in the late-nineteenth century as a village and factory complex, a paternalist development.
It was conceived of by an enlightened capitalist, George Cadbury, a chocolate manufacturer who wanted to create a pleasant environment for his workers illus. For In the Midst of Things curators Nigel Prince and Gavin Wade invited 27 artists to make artworks at Bourneville, both outside and in the buildings themselves. The artists refilled the pond with water dyed purple, installed two splashing fountains and had new paving stones laid around the edges. The dye prevented photosynthesis from taking place, so slowly the plant life in the pond died away.
Since the artists spent their budget on repairing and restoring part of the property, in a sense their art is an offering, a gift to Bourneville, but like all gifts, something is expected See Nigel Prince and Gavin Wade eds In the Midst of Things London: August Media, See also Gavin Wade ed. In referencing the sickly and suffocating effect of paternalism, the work questions the idealism of utopian schemes, suggesting perhaps that the apparently benign aspirations at Bourneville have a patronizing and controlling edge.
This work being given as a gift challenges the ideology and values of Bourneville and demands critical thinking as its counter gift. It is only the disturbing realization that the dark purple pond water is inert that starts to hint at something other than simple restoration.
How is this work different from what a textile designer might produce? Why is one thing designated art and another design? These are questions increasingly emerging as a growing number of artists engage in territories usually associated with urban design and architecture. It might be argued that it is the reflexive nature of this mode of practice that makes the work art and not design.
Utopian design visions have often addressed social problems by attempting to solve them. Modernism had it that new designs and spaces could determine new forms of social relation. Architecture, as Le Corbusier was keen to point out, was the alternative to social revolution.
The projects that tend towards the utopian in their vision have questions rather than answers in their intentions. It is in this sense that art can offer architecture and design a chance to think critically about their recent history and present aspirations.
Gary Perkins makes models of interiors, sometimes of domestic settings at other times of the insides of lorries and vans. His work suggests the subversive and fetishist aspects of looking, particularly when we gaze into spaces that have been miniaturized and that locate us as omnipotent subjects. Architecture and Revolution London: Routledge, p. Placed within architectural discourse, these objects would be understood as scale models of existing spaces or proposals for new designs, but positioned as artworks we are able to consider them more critically.
Architectural design conventions locate models either as representations of real spaces or as fictions, not as both. Taken out of such a context and presented with no site plan or map, the architectural model can operate both as determination and speculation. Coley created a series of architectural models that could be worn as hats, including a model of the rest house in Bourneville and a Frank Gehry and Mies van der Rohe building.
Coley then asked a photographer to take an image of five people with these cardboard models on their heads. A text placed below suggested that the models were responses to an invitation to redesign the rest house illus. This involved developing a site not previously open to the public.
Part 1 was first published in Artforum February pp. Reprinted from Artforum October pp. Part 2 was first published in Artforum October pp. Today, an interest in the relationship between art and space continues to underline much contemporary practice, but what distinguishes much of the artwork of the past few years from the work of the s and s is the process-based nature of the spatial interest and the kind of occupation the works require in order to function. In this sense, her expanded field extends, if critically, the terrain of the gallery.
The other structures that populate sites outside the gallery, the diverse practices, meanings and uses that inhabit such locations, are not brought into play, either by the artists or the critic. So, is it possible to expand the field, to think of art not as place but as spatial practice and to include spatial practices that occur beyond the gallery, activities that are not associated with art?
At Bourneville, many of the invited artists made pieces of architecture that required occupation to allow them to function. Chocolate was included in the soil and the cabbages were grown in purple dye so that they looked faintly purplish in colour.
In England, where a vegetable patch is usually associated with the back garden rather than the flowerbeds of the front garden or park, they felt strangely out of place. The scale of Bourneville made it possible to walk through the entire site and to see works Prince and Wade, In the Midst of Things, pp.
A work might occupy the foreground and then recede to become a backdrop, offering the viewer multiple, changing and sometimes conflicting ways of experiencing art. In Artscapes: Art as an Approach to Contemporary Landscape, Luca Galofaro points to landscape as the place where artists and architects establish a relationship of exchange. In moving outside the gallery in the s artists sought to critique the operations of their own discipline.
The white light emitted by fluorescent tubes through the plexiglas of the floor decreased melatonin secretion, reducing fatigue and increasing sexual desire. These plants were chosen because of their ability to produce certain vitamins and minerals beneficial in exercise, such as asparagus a vegetable that provides vitamin B1 and helps increase muscle tone and prevent cramps.
There are longstanding arguments about architectural and environmental determinism; on the one hand architects are located as the culprit of all crimes and misdemeanours committed in the buildings they design; on the other hand questions are raised about whether architecture has the power to control how we behave.
As architects, when we design it is hard not to believe that the places we make will effect the occupier in the ways we intend, yet this optimistic hope can easily be perverted to create an architecture of control. There is nothing left but the ritual, experience, code and effect of architecture itself. What contribution does this inorganic matter make architecturally? All kinds of household items, from books to a pair of slippers, each in a plastic bag and labelled with an inventory number, circulated on the belt.
The people in overalls, including the artist, engaged in different operations — one to remove the plug from a fridge, another to pass pieces of wood into a shredder. Landy chooses not to distinguish between different kinds of object — gifts, souvenirs, commodity consumables, originals, replicas — all were broken down. This is an essential de Certeau, Practice of Everyday Life, p.
See Gerrie van Noord ed. But perhaps this is doing Landy a disservice, the bluntness of the breakdown may well be intended to bring us to our senses and make us think about the sheer number of objects in the world as an effect of the increasingly particular knowledge we demonstrate as consumers.
What kind of relationship is Landy trying to establish between these sites? And how does he use performance to make his points? There was a lack of precision in the way Landy broke his objects down. Some were taken apart physically, but not all and not all to the same extent; some materials were destroyed, but apparently only those that would go through the wood shredder on site. There are certainly problems with the work. For example, the decisions Landy made about the actual performance seemed to be based on pragmatic rather than aesthetic concerns, and what he 71 had to say about the lives of different kinds of objects and the ethical issues surrounding consumption is less than clear.
Yet, that said, I think it is still possible to suggest that Landy transformed a place into a space. On a cold grey day in June, on a field somewhere outside Sheffield, a fight took place between the police and a huge gang of men in jeans and T- shirts. Surrounding them, yet held back by a rope, a crowd strained for a view. I stood in that crowd, trying to take a photograph, one that would crop out the man with a microphone, the heads of the crowd around me, the array of hotdog stands and ice cream vans and the film crew taking footage of the event for broadcast on Channel 4.
Urban Suspension deconstructs urbanism, presenting a chaotic assemblage of abstracted materials, where emerging shapes suggest the potential for future order, design and construction. My paintings explore the experience of moving through the city and the rhythms, space and architecture around me. Through a process of layering and abstraction, observation and reimagining, I build environments with colliding planes, illusory depth and dancing lines, alive with uprights, angles and the possibility of encounter.
Girl Walking ironises this simplistic distinction; it is a 2D urban scene which reaches towards three-dimensionality, in which a female figure seems about to walk out of the composition. The artist compels us to consider whether architecture can be defined by its functionality: the experiencer's ability to 'walk through' it. Even in its title, Girl Walking foregrounds this tension between viewer and experiencer, spectacle and environment, artistic and architectural design. Gail Seres-Woolfson , Girl Walking This is a fascinating idea to reflect upon, and one for which Mall Galleries Buy Art Buy Now is ideally placed, having access to such a diverse range of artistic styles and subjects.
Take a turn through Architectural vs Abstract and consider how each artist presents a subtly different dynamic between the individual, art and architecture, as they invite you to imaginatively look at, walk around, and walk through their constructions.