The Art-Architecture Ping-Pong
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 56
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Unspoken Places : Studio Olafur Eliasson
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- ISBN
- 9780500343135
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This essay examines artist Olafur Eliasson’s numerous collaborations with architects. Based on a series of interviews the author conducted with Eliasson and key members of his studio team, the essay charts the development of his interest in architectural language and his tendency to collaborate with architects external to his large studio in Berlin. This includes Kjetil Thorsen and the Serpentine Pavilion (2007) and Henning Larsen Architects and Batteriid Architects on the Harpa Conference and Concert Centre (2011).
The essay particularly focuses on Eliasson’s collaborative pavilion ‘Your Black Horizon’ (2007), designed with architect David Adjaye for the Venice Architecture Biennale, by examining the design process underpinning it. Of specific interest is the way the two studios and their principle designers collaborated to develop a shared set of spatial concerns and a shared language to articulate them. To be able to examine the design process from both points of view, the author also interviewed Adjaye and members of his team. The insights of the essay were discussed at the chaired debate ‘Blurred Boundaries: Where Does Art End and Architecture Begin’ at RIBA in October 2016.
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- Non-English
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