Book Title: Patio and Pavilion

Book Author: Penelope Curtis

Book description: Presenting The sculptural buildings by the architects like Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas and also the architectural sculptures designed by artists Anish Kapoor. Exhibiting a relationship between the sculpture and architecture. Eg. Mies van der  Rohe’s Barcelona pavilion showcasing the sculptures of Dan Graham. Includes more examples on spaces like exhibition halls and sculpture courts displaying independent sculptures. Also, shows case studies on how architecture predominates the sculpture which it housed.

Contents of the Book:

• Mies’ Choice: Georg Kolbe in the Barcelona Pavilion (1929)
• Persico’s Vision: Lucio Fontana at the Milan Triennale (1936)
• Saarinen’s Culture: Carl Milles on the Cranbrook Campus (1934-42)
• Paper Visions: New Buildings for 194X (1943)
• Johnson’s Fixing: The MoMA Sculpture Garden (1953)
• Scarpa’s Illumination: The Gipsoteca Canoviana (1957)
• Sonsbeek’s Question: Pavilions by Rietveld and Van Eyck (1955-66)

Relevance to the UREP Research:

Showcases how public art can be arranged in an architectural space and its relationship with the space.

A pavilion provides transparency as well as protection to the sculpture in it. It holds a place between interior and exterior and is demarcated by pedestal and its canopy. In this was nature and architecture is separated but joined by the sculpture. Dan Graham wanted his sculpture pavilion to have a dual role – to function as art and also an exhibition pavilion itself. The fact that it is set in nature, its role is ambiguous and also achieves isolation and independence. The pavilion interacts with nature perfectly without disturbing the beauty and colors of nature by the use of glass curtain walls.