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architectural phenomenology
art and landscape integration
artist-architect collaboration
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Bird's Eye
Braque
Braque Pool
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Coal Fires
Entrance Corridor
Entrance Woodland
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experiential art architecture analysis
Fondation Maeght
foundation
George Braque
Giacometti Sculptures
Giacometti Terrace
Henri Maldiney
Internal Spatial Structure
Labyrinth Garden
Le Corbusier
Le Miroir
maeght
Maeght Foundation
Maeght Gallery
Marguerite Maeght
Mediterranean garden theory
Minoan Civilization
modernist museum design
Orthogonal Drawings
Porter's Lodge
Sert Photo
spatial temporality
Tal Coat
Town Hall
Water Falling
Product details
- ISBN 9780754601791
- Weight: 843g
- Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Situated in a Mediterranean landscape, the Maeght Foundation is a unique Modernist museum, product of an extraordinary collaboration between the architect, José Luis Sert, and the artists whose work was to be displayed there. The architecture, garden design and art offer a rare opportunity to see work in settings conceived in active collaboration with the artists themselves. By focusing on the relationship between this art foundation and its Arcadian setting, including Joan Miró's labyrinth, George Braque's pool, Tal-Coat's mosaic wall and Giacometti's terrace, Jan K. Birksted demonstrates how the building articulates many of the ideas that preoccupied this group of artists during the culminating years of their lives. The study pays special attention to the ways in which architecture can shape the experience of time, and addresses the Modernist desire for wilderness and its problematic roots in the classical Mediterranean ideal. In showing how the design of the Maeght Foundation is a Modernist representation of Mediterranean culture, the author has developed an interpretation of architecture that accommodates not only the architect's handling of material or function, but shows as well how it can be the embodiment of a particular vision of space and time.
Jan K. Birksted, Bartlett School of Architecture, UK
