Architecture/art
For over fifty years, Michael Jantzen’s work as an artist/designer has often explored the relationship between art and architecture. One of his latest series of design proposals called Architecture/art, presents nine fantasy structures that merge architecture and art into a series of public art proposals. Most were designed to be made of painted steel, and sized to fit various site-specific locations.
Although purposeful looking, none of these were designed to have any known formal function. They were all created through a method of randomly selecting pre-made 3 dimensional model parts, and assembling those parts together in ways that suggested some kind of potential purpose. This was done in order to allow the viewers to make up their own stories about what these structures are, and what their function might be.
After the 3 dimensional physical models of the structures were made, they were photographed and the photos were placed into a computer. The images of the models were then isolated from their original backgrounds. The isolated model images (along with isolated images of people) were then placed into various photos of landscapes, in order to simulate the kinds of places into which the real structures might actually be assembled into public Architecture/art installations. In general, the intent was to created totally unexpected and never before seen structures that blur the lines between architecture and art
Status: Unbuilt
