Nov 10, 05:04 pm
Article published by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Art and Science, Architecture’s and Art’s Site-Specific Projects
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The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Visual Arts takes great pride in presenting the book Art and Science, Architecture’s and Art’s Site-Specific Projects, a volume edited by Else Marie Bukdahl.
The eight different texts in this book have their origins as contributions to a seminar held in 2004 at The School of Architecture and Design in The American University in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. The seminar was a link in a program of cultural exchange between The Department of Culture and Information in Sharjah and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Consequently, the book has been published as a bilingual volume, in English and Arabic.
The book’s various authors are engaged here with the task of illuminating the relationship between art and science and they are concerned with putting forth straightforward proposals that demonstrate how artists and architects can work together to create projects which enter into an intimate visual dialogue with Arabic art, culture and religion in the Emirates and simultaneously address themselves to the rapid pace of development transpiring in this corner of the world.
*The Dubai Experiment*, by George Katodrytis and Khalid Al Najjar proposes ways of responding to Dubai, a prototype of a city in rapid development at the beginning of the 21st century. The Dubai Experiment is an approach to “Hybrid Urbanism” that treats the city as both Global and Local. Beyond its apparent lack of identity, this city demonstrates a complex urbanism that has both an invisible infrastructure of non-hierarchical activities, goods, and participants and a visible theatricality. To the visitor, the city might seem peculiar: heterogeneous, hyperactive and with no apparent hierarchy. Yet everything points to one thing: commercial exchange and consumption. The result is a kind of mirage, urban fiction, free forms, synthetic and airport-like interiors.
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