23 January 2012
Witch Monument (2011) by AstridWestvang
There is a strong link between art, architecture and landscape through the way that artists and architects explore and respond to environmental contexts through their interventions using spatial constructs, materials and their relationships to the land.
Many areas of the Library’s collections reflect these and can be used for inspiration and as a starting point for investigating these links, both in theory and practice.
Within architecture (720-729) pavilions, small and temporary structures often offer a way for architects to explore these relationships more freely, testing conceptual ideas. There are many examples within the collection that reveal this as a meeting point between artists and architects. Look for landscape, context, material, small or temporary structures. Bio-architecture is also an area in which architects draw inspiration from the natural environment through the use of form and material.
Within the world of fine art the areas of ‘installation art’, ‘land art’, ‘environmental art’ or ‘site specific art’ are of particular interest and relevance, all of which can be discovered within the Library’s collections amongst the DVDs, 709, 710 and 730 sections. Try the areas mentioned above as search terms.
Other resources include the Library’s fine art and architecture journals collection, article and image databases via the Library Online, in particular Bridgeman Education and websites such as Art Site, Tate, greenmuseum.org.
Recent examples of built projects include Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois’s collaboration on the Steilneset memorial in Norway, also in Norway Snohetta’s Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion, the Treehouse Restaurant pods, New Zealand by Pacific Environment Architects, the Fogo Island studios project, Canada by Todd Saunders, artist Tobias Rehberger’s footbridge, Germany, and the work of Ryo Yamada for example. Artists for inspiration include: Christo and Jean-Claude, Andy Goldsworthy, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roni Horn, Anish Kapoor, Richard Long, Richard Shilling and Robert Smithson, amongst many others.
You can also find out more about all of these using the journals resources on the Library Online.
Original image by: AstridWestvang
Title: Witch Monument
Date: 2011
Source: Flickr
Used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works
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