Dan Graham

Daniel "Dan" Graham (born March 31, 1942) is an American artist, writer, and curator.

 

From wikipedia:
"Dan Graham’s artworks are said to blur the line between sculpture and architecture. Since the 1980s, Graham has been working on an ongoing series of freestanding, sculptural objects called pavilions; they represent a hybrid between a quasi-functional space and an installation that serves to expose processes of perception and certain expectations."

Olafur Eliasson

 

Here are a selection of works by Olafur Eliasson. From wikipedia: "Olafur Eliasson (born 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research. Eliasson represented Denmark at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and later that year installed The Weather Project in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, London."

 

Check out more works here: http://www.olafureliasson.net/works.html

 

 

 

Consider how the spatial implications of these material investigations might relate to your own studies. How might ideas explored in these works inform the experiential characteristics of your propositions?

Rintala Eggertsson Architects - Element House

The Element House by Rintala Eggertsson Architects. From the Architects website:

 

" The larger main space is a cubical space made of steel. It leads to four smaller wooden rooms situated in four different levels, from a cellar to an attic. Each small space includes a suggestion for use and the symbolic presence of one of the basic elements (fire, water, air, earth). The chosen main materials, rusty steel and wood, imitate the colors of the surrounding nature. The project wishes to create an inner world where memories and even dreams may have their moment and place. It is bringing together an archetype of a house, movement in space and the expression of four basic elements into a three-dimensional collage."

 

Consider how ideas expressed in this structure might relate to the conversations we had on Thursday regarding the different material and experiential potentials of your propositions, the thresholds between internal and external conditions, the manipulation of natural light, the visual and physical relationships between components of your proposal and the sequential experience of progressing through the building...

 

 

 

 

Julie Mehretu

"Julie Mehretu was born in 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She studied at University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar (1990–91), earned a BA from Kalamazoo College, Michigan (1992), and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (1997). She was a resident of the CORE Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1997–98) and the Artist-in-Residence Program at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2001). Mehretu’s paintings and drawings refer to elements of mapping and architecture, achieving a calligraphic complexity that resembles turbulent atmospheres and dense social networks. Architectural renderings and aerial views of urban grids enter the work as fragments, losing their real-world specificity and challenging narrow geographic and cultural readings. The paintings’ wax-like surfaces—built up over weeks and months in thin translucent layers—have a luminous warmth and spatial depth Their formal qualities of light and space are made all the more complex by Mehretu’s delicate depictions of fire, explosions, and perspectives in both two and three dimensions. Her works engage the history of nonobjective art—from Constructivism to Futurism—posing contemporary questions about the relationship between utopian impulses and abstraction."

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/julie-mehretu

 

"With my work, it’s the architecture and the space and the built environment that become a kind of palimpsest, another type of atmosphere. The buildings are so layered, the information can be so layered and disintegrated, that it almost becomes a dust-like atmosphere in the place and palimpsest."

-Julie Mehretu

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 - Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012 designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei from Serpentine Gallery on Vimeo.

For 12 years the lawns of the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park have been transformed by an annual series of  temporary pavilions by some of the worlds most significant architects and artists. This years structure was designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron in collaboration with Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. 

The design reveals traces of the preceding 11 pavilions and 'excavates'  the otherwise obscured geometries of the earlier buildings to propose a new submerged landscape; a composite of historical forms and structures..

The drawings describe this process and the generation of the building's form.

From the Serpentine;"This year’s Pavilion will take visitors beneath the Serpentine’s lawn to explore the hidden history of its previous Pavilions. Eleven columns characterising each past Pavilion and a twelfth column representing the current structure will support a floating platform roof 1.4 metres above ground. The Pavilion’s interior will be clad in cork, a sustainable building material chosen for its unique qualities and to echo the excavated earth. Taking an archaeological approach, the architects have created a design that will inspire visitors to look beneath the surface of the park as well as back in time across the ghosts of the earlier structures."

Explore the earlier pavilions here

Still Life - Sam Taylor-Wood

Sam Taylor-Wood : Still Life from Waldir Barreto on Vimeo.

Michael Wesely - Open Shutter

Michael Wesely uses extreme long exposure photography (up to 3 years for a single exposure) to produce these beautiful images which reveal  processes of development, transformations and change within Berlin and New York