The architect of abstraction.
The article offers information on how the architect's uncompromising allegiance to a geometrical pattern could interfere with the basic purpose of viewing the art. It mentions the two buildings illustrate the two principal ways modernist architects responded to the challenges of creating a new archi...
| Published in: | New Criterion Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 37 - 41 |
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New Criterion
Oct2019
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| Summary: | The article offers information on how the architect's uncompromising allegiance to a geometrical pattern could interfere with the basic purpose of viewing the art. It mentions the two buildings illustrate the two principal ways modernist architects responded to the challenges of creating a new architectural language; and also mentions the building-as-abstract-sculpture is essentially anti-urban, because such objects only work if they are freestanding. |
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