Sentences with phrase «architectural environments against»
Many used everyday objects such as refrigerators and mirrors to create sculptural monuments or construct architectural environments against the Manhattan skyline.
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Cedric Price was one of Britain's most provocative and visionary architects, whose projects would push against traditional architectural boundaries and delight in questioning the impact of time and space on the built environment.
All the artists share similar productive tensions within their practices: direct or hinted at autobiographical references synthesise with a distant, controlled aesthetic and emotional restraint; the obsolescence of the image is contrasted with the image as a source of hope, and even personal salvation; the apparent stability and naturalness of landscape is set against the urban environment and modern architectural practice and its accelerated entropy.
Interconnected architectural environments house three videos characterised by an absurdist sense of humour and ranging from a study of cats living in the basement of St. Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, through to interviews with the artist's family members, and a series of monologues set against an investigation into the life of a deceased man called Janus.