Archinect - News 2024-11-21T13:33:22-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/16632908/rudy-yu-s-architecture-of-whimsy Rudy Yu's architecture of whimsy Alexander Walter 2011-08-12T16:18:23-04:00 >2011-08-12T16:19:46-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/01/010x125azzjv1lsc.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Blind alleys laid out like labyrinths. Steps climbing seemingly to nowhere. Roads crisscrossing and crossbreeding smaller roads. But despite the elaborate shapes and impossible angles, the cityscapes created by Filipino artist Rudy Yu make their own sense, aesthetically. They are cities [...] mapped out playfully, whimsically by an artist who, though inspired by the likes of M.C. Escher and Manuel Baldemor, puts his own idiosyncratic spin on space and matter that occupies it.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>