Architecture: Art

By Philip Jodidio

This lavishly illustrated collection features designers and projects that push out the boundary between art and architecture. "Architecture: Art" explores the ways in which contemporary artists and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3791332791
• ISBN13: 9783791332796
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Prestel Pub
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.9" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

The similarity of architecture and art is more important than their differences...?

Prestel publishes quality books both in terms of construction quality as well as its context. This book is no exception. The question as to when is architecture art and art architecture has been debated since their birht. Instead of providing an answer to this debatable topic, this book provides a compilation of projects that acts as a reference so that the reader can surmise his own. Projects include Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Gates, Frank Gehry's DG Bank, Eric Owen Moss' The Umbrella, etc. Each project is laid out in either a 2 or 4 page spread with text featuring the designer's background as well as the project description. After reading this book, one has to realize that it is not so important to categorize these projects into absolutes, but rather both/and instead of either/or. amassingdesign.blogspot