IN-PERSON Lisbon Livable Cities. Section B

Abstract

The paper balances between architecture and fine art oeuvre. As the Donal Judd´s Stage Set object standing in Vienna, forming an open space bellow the frame structure made from colourful plates, letting people walk bellow and actually through the object, which touches the plot only by a few slim columns joined to the ground. Sol LeWitt´s Black Form – Dedicated to the Missing Jews surrounds the whole footprint, which means one have to walk around the artwork shaped as cubic geometrical solid made from smaller blocks, clearly defining the spot by its black volume. Both artworks were located firstly on the different sites and after a while moved to the other places, each for varied reason. Comparing those two works of fine art might bring a theme of a build structure permeability and the matter of defining a parcel by the solid, fulfilled volume or void, mostly vacant arrangement of material. In this case a paper explores some of the architectural aspects of those minimal art pieces in public space and brings the focus on using colours by minimalists in fine art as well as in a build architectural structure, from interior to the urban form.