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Figures
- A Project in St. Petersburg 2010-2012
Af: Rob Krier
Engelsk Hardback
Figures
- A Project in St. Petersburg 2010-2012
Af: Rob Krier
Engelsk Hardback

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The architect is at all times also an artist. How otherwise would he be able to tame the three-dimensionality of space and subdue the urges of physics and structural mechanics with the creations of his fantasy? This creativity is however mostly restricted purely to its own field. Rob Krier is an exception. For years, he has seen his love of art as a vocation -- one which he nurtures parallel to his work in construction. Fine art should stand in dialogue with architecture and it is Krier''s ambition to have iconographic themes brought into the latter, so that they might speak equally to both the occupants of a building and to bystanders, moving them to thoughtful reflection. In his contribution to the European Embankment project in St Petersburg, Krier recently demonstrated the power of architecture and fine art to cross-fertilise. The architects in charge of the urban development of this district are Sergei Tchoban and Evgeny Gerasimov. Krier designed the façade for a 132-metres long building on the Newa riverbank one that looks across the water onto the rear façade of the Hermitage. The vibrancy of the architecture is enhanced by its sculptural ornamentation based on the Balzac theme, ''The Human Comedy''. In this regard, Krier modelled over 50 figures in white clay, as well as around 65 linear metres of reliefs. The short poems that comment on the sculptures also centre on the theme of mankind and its interrelationships in society.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
704
ISBN-13:
9783936681666
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
393668166X
Udg. Dato:
15 nov 2012
Længde:
44mm
Bredde:
131mm
Højde:
182mm
Forlag:
Edition Axel Menges
Oplagsdato:
15 nov 2012
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