Architecture AS art
As an habitable volume, we can talk of architecture as SCULPTURE. A perfect example of this is the Guggenheim Museum. We can also think of architecture as PAINTING. We can take Friedenreisch Hundertwasser as an example of it as it represents a creative composition of different colors and forms. Finally, architecture as TRADITION. Donald Gray reflected by making drawings how traditional householding can be made to create a certain atmosphere, observing tradition towns allover the south of Spain.
Architecture FROM others arts
We can find references of NEOPLASTICISM in Architecture. This kind of projects try to compose rectangular simple forms with yellow, red, black, blue and gray colors. We can also see ELEMENTARISM in Architecture as elemental forms can be decomposed to form a certain space. PURISM in Architecture is also a denotable thing whenever we learn that Le Corbusier made paintings of simple form with no perspective that afterwards developed in purist architecture, we can take Villa Savoye as an essential example. CUBISM can also repered whenever we perceive fractured and irregular shapes, angular details on doors or windows or undecorated exterior walls. Finally, SURREALISM can also be found in Architecture, we can talk about the Endless House of Frederick Kiesler or the Coop Himmelb’s Attic in Vienna that breaks with the academic rational architecture that surrounds it.
Architecture IN other arts
We have seen architecture being represented in mostly all other arts. Architecture in PAINTING can or can not make a correct use of scale or perspective. During the Rennaissance, many paintings where made taking perspective into account, we can see La scuola di Atene by Raphael as an example. In Baroque paintings, we could also see various church interiors or in Pre-Neoclassicism, prisson interiors in Piranesi drawings.
Architecture is also presented in CINEMA. We have studied in class three films where architecture takes an important part. In The Fountainhead, we find numerous dialogues of architects that debated about the ideas of innovating modern architect. In Mon Oncle directed and protagonised by Tati, the use of architecture serves to differentiated two different personalities. We can see how the newphew’s house is a modernist house where everything is rational, organised and automatic, however the uncle’s house is a organic antique and traditional house where everything functions slowly. In The Belly of an Architect, a cake with the form of the building inauguration exhibition is represented.
Architecture can also be found in MUSIC. In La Cathedrale engloutie, through the partition we can perceive how the movement and the loudness of the sound increases and decreases suggesting a tower based on the background of the story telled.
Architecture WITH other arts
Suggested Architecture is find whenever we see a painting on the ceillingof a church that represent columns, we can then see how the continuity between the real and the fictional architecture is made, how the paintings give amplitude to the building and suggest other forms that don’t exist in reality. Gesamtkinstwerk is a total artwork where exterior and interiorare perfectly designed to look as a piece of art, we can think of Casa Batlo as an example of the creative and artistic details that creates this unique space.