Chaos Merges With Artistic Architecture Beautifully

A Portrait of the Architect as the Artist

Traditional buildings move over and make room for the unconventional! Architecture is now emerging that is an artistic, somewhat chaotic blending envisioned and brought to reality by several outstanding artists/architects. Dr. John Daab has authored an article entitled A Portrait of the Architect as the Artist, an insight into the world of the avant garden of architecture.

The typical building consists of squares, rectangles, circles and sometimes triangles with predictable angles and planes. This type of design normally morphs into a certain type of sameness from one design to another. In the process creating a similarity, resulting in cheaper design and speedy construction.

Enter now the architects turned artists with an eye toward breaking tradition by using approaches that appear to be more akin to sculptures rather than functional buildings. The names of the new architect/artists are Daniel Lebeskind, Frank Gehry and Philip Johnson. What may appear as doodles to the average person, soon evolve into a modern, functional structure in the hands of these architects. There is a musical beauty that flows through their creations. Johnson and Gehry were both very close to famous artists who help inspire their creations. At first glance, the structures seem to be an enigma or there is an expression of awe that the building is still standing. Each step of the creation is meticulously drawn and redrawn and modeled until it is perfected and fully functional. All agree that without the use of the computer these concepts would be extremely hard to turn into reality.

This article details the intricacies that are involved in these massive architectural artistic undertakings. You will be amazed at the various buildings/functional sculptures that have thus far been created by these pioneers in structures. Chaos, art and buildings blend beautifully. Read this interesting article at www.fineartregistry.com.