A restored Milton Glaser mural allows us to see Brutalism as its architect intended: with color! : Responses Design Observer :: Join the Discussion http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/art-matters-to-architecture/35808/ en-us Design Observer Group 2012-09-08T11:09:04-05:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0 <![CDATA[Responding to "A restored Milton Glaser mural allows us to see Brutalism as its architect intended: with color!"]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/art-matters-to-architecture/35808/#comments 2012-09-08T11:09:04-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "A restored Milton Glaser mural allows us to see Brutalism as its architect intended: with color!"]]> greg potter http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/art-matters-to-architecture/35808/#comments 2012-09-07T13:31:01-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "A restored Milton Glaser mural allows us to see Brutalism as its architect intended: with color!"]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/art-matters-to-architecture/35808/#comments 2012-09-04T17:59:50-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "A restored Milton Glaser mural allows us to see Brutalism as its architect intended: with color!"]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/art-matters-to-architecture/35808/#comments 2012-09-03T05:55:19-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "A restored Milton Glaser mural allows us to see Brutalism as its architect intended: with color!"]]> As an artist who has been working with architects for over 30 years, I have found that virtually no architect willingly includes art- they must be forced to by the client, or by legal requirements. I have never met an architect who didnt feel that his or her design for the building was better without the art distracting, and that the architecture WAS the art.
There was a time, of course, when architects actually collaborated with artists, craftspeople, and tradesmen- but since the advent of modernism, when ornament was stripped away, this has been exceedingly rare. ]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/art-matters-to-architecture/35808/#comments 2012-09-02T16:38:40-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "A restored Milton Glaser mural allows us to see Brutalism as its architect intended: with color!"]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/art-matters-to-architecture/35808/#comments 2012-09-01T21:10:39-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "A restored Milton Glaser mural allows us to see Brutalism as its architect intended: with color!"]]>
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It would be an ideal candidate for this kind of alteration - at least to save it!]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/art-matters-to-architecture/35808/#comments 2012-08-31T14:50:33-05:00 <![CDATA[Responding to "A restored Milton Glaser mural allows us to see Brutalism as its architect intended: with color!"]]>
As I tell my students, "Design should not be thought of as frosting on the cake. It should a key ingredient in the batter." While it is encouraging that some people think artists and designers have great powers to "fix" things, it would be better if their abilities were valued with a substantive role from the beginning.]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/art-matters-to-architecture/35808/#comments 2012-08-29T10:16:28-05:00