Architecture As Art

Across media of all shapes and materials, artists throughout history have found any way possible for their creative inventions to spring to life, whether it be with paint, clay, metal, color, light, wire, ink or beyond— the medium defines not the artwork, rather the artist gives definition to the medium. And across different media, you might say that the lines can get blurred, the boundaries becoming difficult to define. Architecture is all about defined boundaries, being the assembly of concrete materials, so to speak, however the creation of and the appreciation thereafter of an architectural work of art bleeds across many reasons to love the genre, giving rise to a breath of life in all the associated experiences.

Looking at photographs of beautiful bridges, designs for beautiful buildings, conceptual renderings, after-work illustrations, new derivative images containing architectural elements— it is hard to escape the infusion of all there is to love about architecture, inherent from the beginning of the creative process, and literally set in stone.

The love of geometry and the shape of a confident, almost disruptive object of beauty carved into a landscape, practically a revolution in and of itself— evident in Berlin, 1921-Hochhaus am Banhoff by Mies van Der Rohe and well-known Le Pont Neuf Wrapped I by Christo.

Andreas Feininger- Empire State, New York
 2008 Poster