Book: Beyond Architecture

For this new monograph, curator and editors Lukas Feireiss and Robert Klanten trawled through galleries - both virtual and real - to bring together a comprehensive portfolio of architecture-driven art.

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As the sub-title suggests, the theme is the collective cultural fascination with the future, an ongoing obsession that manifests itself in a subculture of model-making, computer manipulation and intense artwork around the theme of the fantasy cityscape. Building on the utopian imagery of the 1960s and 1970s, the architectural artwork of the 21st century is rich with detail and ironic reference.

23 March 2009 | Architecture