Alloys: American Sculpture and Architecture at Midcentury
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English | ISBN: 0691215774 | 272 pages | EPUB | March 1, 2022 | 135 Mb
A new look at the interrelationship of architecture and sculpture during one of the richest periods of American modern design
Alloys looks at a unique period of synergy and exchange in the postwar United States, when sculpture profoundly shaped architecture, and vice versa. Leading architects such as Gordon Bunshaft and Eero Saarinen turned to sculptors including Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, Richard Lippold, and Isamu Noguchi to produce site-determined, large-scale sculptures tailored for their buildings' highly visible and well-traversed threshold spaces. The parameters of these spaces-atriums, lobbies, plazas, and entryways-led to various designs like sculptural walls, ceilings, and screens that not only embraced new industrial materials and processes, but also nstrated art's ability to merge with lived architectural spaces.
