Kulapat why architecture

She gave Yantrasast a call. I was not even 40 yet! You like people to look here, look there, to have options. The Grand Rapids Art Museum remains an important project in his portfolio, but it is classical compared to some of his more recent, more playful and complex work. In a building I look for generosity, I look for a sense of complexity that unfolds over time.

I sometimes look for opposite interests within a building. Those are the qualities that I look for in my friends also. Not fair, if you ask Kulapat. Architecture holds power over other artforms, but it should be a generous kind of power. A spacious terrace housing a sculpture from Ai Weiwei is being built and will start hosting cocktails parties and fundraising events this fall.

Speaking of, visitors enter Continuity through a pitch-black showroom. Around the corner, they leave the real world behind and enter an imaginary space of overlapping rooms covered with luminescent projections. Some, like the sunflowers, are stationary. Others, like a flock of crows that fly across the entire exhibition, are not. The crows burst into a thousand colors when they fly into someone.

Butterflies die at the slightest touch, their brittle wings drifting downward as a new projection lights up to take its place. In a world dominated by science, Continuity is as close to a magical experience as you can get. Not sure. Because, first of all, we have to rely on someone to commission the work. You have a dream and you sell it, but the dream has to connect with the other person, too. But the position of an architect from day one is to create the most successful compromised situation for everyone.

You have to see your work in the work, the client needs to be happy in the place, the society needs to see it as an innovation in architecture, and all of this, right? So how can you negotiate that to get all that to happen? I feel that modern architecture is that. Since 20 years ago the world is no longer the simple place that modernity was made.

And conflating—How can you want a minimal house but also have a lot of objects? How can you want to be alone but also want to be with other people? How can a house create all of that for you? I think architects do not have to generate all of the original ideas, but we need to source it from the best sources—philosophers, artists, economists, social workers, anthropologists.

And of course we learn some of this in university, but we need to keep learning, because things are moving. With the LA River Art Bridge you created a pedestrian bridge built from trash salvaged from the river itself—concrete walls cast with bottle glass, cans, Styrofoam, dirt and debris; floor and pavement made from recycled tires, tennis balls, and scrap metal; bridge guardrail made from recycled parts of shopping carts scattered in the riverbed.

Tell me about this. It started as a non-profit project. A group of artists who do the mural on the river channel wall said that they needed to replace the bridge and they asked for my help. I was excited, and went to look at it.

I was amazingly angry, like, What, this is the river? Discover more at www. From Colorado to Milan, explore remarkable homes where different elements set one another off. Opening on 8 October, No. For the last video in the series on creatives and their home cities, the acclaimed South London-raised artist shares a slice of her home life in Leyton.

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