Federico Babina Remakes Art as Architecture

Does an architect always view the world through the lens of a built structure? It may be safe to assume some do—like Italian architect and illustrator Federico Babina, who has conceived of a series of illustrations in which iconic two-dimensional works by famous artists morph into 3-dimensional works of architecture. Paintings and drawings by artists from Warhol to Richard Serra, Lichtenstein to Damien Hirst, get reconstructed, so to speak, as buildings in Babina’s Archist project. While some aesthetic devices—from Mondrian and Serra, for instance—lend themselves more convincingly to architecture than others—Lichtenstein and Rothko fare less well—we suspect all the artists chosen for Babina’s project would find themselves amused, even intrigued, by the possibilities.Images: Dezeen
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