#PUBLIC ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS
Arch and Art: Chipperfield
David Chipperflield’s pavilion for Arch and Art – a project by Assolombarda Confindustria Milano Monza e Brianza realized by Domus – is a room with a room: the one of Michelangelo Pistoletto.
This work expresses a duality that is principally between architecture and art, but also between architect and artist.
The two rooms lead one to imagine two halves of a thing, but at the same time they make one think of a difference, a dichotomy, of something doubled or divided. They communicate two faces of a single idea, two things that compliment each other. They speak of two worlds, of two individuals with their own interests, of two professions: architect and artist. Are these two personalities complementary or contradictory? The architect has to concentrate on establishing quality, functionality, stability, resistance, substance and also light, space and form, while the artist has to question himself and think of the process.
Perhaps the shared interest begins differently, for different reasons, for different objectives, for different responsibilities and, in the end, artist and architect both work on similar materials and constructions.
