Word: architecturale
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In the first series, seven houses designed in the years 1954-64, Hejduk has chosen a simple geometric shape, the square, to express the essence of his architecture, and he begins a search into the "generating principles of form and space." By starting with juxtapositions of basic relationships--of point...
Hejduk incorporated the houses into his search for an architectural language, a vocabulary of forms. As such, they exist in the realm of abstraction and generality not unlike the platonic world of forms. The landscape of Texas, with its sparse vegetation and flat expanses of land, provided a suitable environment...
The artist did not, however, attempt to incorporate the sculpture into the architecture of the building. While Miss was interested in exploiting the unique quality of the space itself, she did not want to compete with the existing architecture. Hence the sculpture's somewhat ungainly appearance; in scale (over 20...
In all her works, Miss makes use of architectural motifs--fences, staircases, walls, roofs and ceilings. Though never trained as an architect, Miss says that her observations of the built environment supply her with a broad vocabulary of forms. Influences come from a wide variety of sources: the Indian sites...
The use of architectural terms toward non-architectural (or at least non-functional) ends has become popular among some contemporary artists and architects. Alice Aycock's drawings of imaginary cities, the current popularity of architectural drawings as art in themselves, and the revival of decorative facades in post-modern architecture...