2013F_Arch Design 2_Bell Section
ARCH-2220 | David Bell, Associate Professor
Architecture Design 2
Selected Student Work:
Elyse Deruzzio
The disciplines of architecture and sculpture have been intertwined throughout history. Both share common material practices and contexts and engage society through three-dimensional space. At the same time, both operate to take advantage of distinct opportunities and parameters of their praxis. Sculpture was once associated with monument and place and as it evolved through modernism, it began to operate detached and isolated in the abstract realm. Post-modern tendencies in sculpture avoided both of these polemics, place or non-place. According to art critic Rosalind Krauss, these ambiguous territories are a part of an expanded field of sculpture that included marked sites, site constructions and axiomatic structures on the fringe of landscape, architecture and their neutered compliments of not-landscape and not-architecture.
Architecture Design 2 will examine the dialectic between sculpture and architecture as a primer to the design of an artist residency for one of the world’s leading sculpture parks, Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, NY. Its pristine 500-acre landscape of fields, hills, and woodlands provides the setting for a collection of more than 100 carefully sited sculptures created by some of the most acclaimed contemporary artists. Founded in 1960 it began as a small museum dedicated to the Hudson River Painters. Quickly after being founded, the museum shifted the focus to sculpture and began to acquire and place modern sculpture in the immediate landscape surrounding the museum building. 50 years later, the museum has become one of the most prominent sculpture parks evolving and expanding its campus into the bordering landscape.
Carolyn Chalfant
Elyse Deruzzio
Royd Zhang
