Guggenheim Architecture

DONNA CONLON AND JONOTHAN HARKER

Do Now: Now that you’ve sampled a bit of their creative process, do you see their artwork any differently?

T H E A R T O R P R A C T I C E O F D E S I G N I N G A N D C O N S T R U C T I N G B U I L D I N G S

ARCHITECTURE

Zayed National MuseumBy Foster + Partners

Abu DhabiExpected completion 2016

ARCHITECTURE“MODERN” =ART STYLES OF 1920-60’S

What kind you like1. “contemporary” structure2. Old factories3. Zaha Hadid (so amazing, like mad swirly and such)4.Why you like it:1. Beautiful aesthetics 2. what it looks like.

“style”2.3.4.

What kind you dislike1. “Edgy” or “boxy” brick apartment buildings….they’re like too basic (for joe) 2. When the façade has no features. “the face of the building” 3. Cracky paint falling off4. No windows just walls.5. Only windows. Why you dislike it:1.2.3.4.

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THE GUGGENHEIMNEW YORK

Built in 1959Designed by Frank Lloyd WrightSignature material: ConcreteStyle: Modernism

THE GUGGENHEIMNEW YORK

Built in 1959Designed by Frank Lloyd WrightSignature material: ConcreteStyle: Modernism

Wasily Kandinsky: Sketch for Composition VII, 1913

THE GUGGENHEIMBILBAO, SPAIN

Built in 1997Designed by Frank GehrySignature material: TitaniumStyle: Deconstructivist

THE GUGGENHEIMBILBAO, SPAIN

Built in 1997Designed by Frank GehrySignature material: TitaniumStyle: Deconstructivist

THE GUGGENHEIMABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB

EMIRATES (UAE)Finished by 2017Designed by Frank Gehry

Style: Deconstructivist

THE GUGGENHEIMABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB

EMIRATES (UAE)Finished by 2017Designed by Frank Gehry

Style: Deconstructivist

THE GUGGENHEIMHISTORY AND CONTROVERSYThe Island of Happiness, or Saadiyat Island, will be the new cultural center of the United Arab Emirates and the Middle East.

The island will feature a world class opera house designed by Zaha Hadid, a branch of the Guggenheim, and the Louvre, as well as a satellite campus for New York University. This efffort is being made to transform the UAE’s economy from one based on petroleum to one based on tourism and culture.

THE GUGGENHEIMHISTORY AND CONTROVERSY

The question that remains is who do you get to build these massive

structures in what was a desert only ten years ago?

MIGRANT WORKERS!

Workers primarily come from Thailand, India, Bangladesh, Laos, Vietnam, Pakistan, and the Philippines.These are workers from very impoverished backgrounds with little formal education, and diverse skill levels.

The Changes that Gulf Labor. Org wants to see…1. An end to recruitment fees and relocation costs paid by workers.

2. An end to the confiscation of worker passports by employers. (Though we recognize that this has appreciably improved in recent years.)

3.Poor and unsafe housing and living conditions, even in the Saadiyat Construction Village that is meant to embody the highest standards for worker welfare.

4.Lack of freedom to change jobs or to form trade unions for collective bargaining.

5. Lack of open platforms for workers to express grievances or abuses without fear of recriminatioN, dismissal, or deportation.

JUST AN AVERAGE SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE GUGGENHEIM…

Finished by 2017Designed by Frank Gehry

Style: Deconstructivist

THE GUGGENHEIMHISTORY AND CONTROVERSY

The United Arab Emirates is transforming their economy from one based on petroleum to one based on tourism and culture.

Do they have the right to hire whoever they want to construct this?

Do they have a right to pay workers so little?

Does the UAE have to be responsible for the well being of these migrant workers?Keep in mind, that many western countries

(including the USA) became major world players through the use of free labor aka SLAVERY….

Never been seen before, different from the norm, modern, contemporary, luxurious, extravagant, unique, prominent, important, dynamic, art inside of art, artistic, artistic,

AND NOW…MARTA MINUJÍN

CONSUMPTION! P8

WHAT DO YOU CONSUME?Food: Electricity, energyOxygenCarbonPROTEIN POWDER!!!! RAWWWWW!PotassiumChia seedsFriesCalciumWaterrrrrrNew england clam chowder (the white)MANHATTAN clam chowdaa (the red)DATA

CONSUMPTION! P3

WHAT DO YOU CONSUME?

Luuuucky charmsMcChigginsPlatanos!Advertisements projected at my FACE!Tamáles!The blood of my enemies (with hot sauce)Cheeseburgers (with hot sauce)Basketballs??? Or not.Fried oreosFriesI tend to buy like a lot of headphones. ICECREAAAAMA LOT OF FOSSIL FUEL….THROUGH ELECTRICITY

HOMEWORK FOR MONDAY

Write down everything you consume from Friday evening through Monday Morning.

Format:

Thing you consume Time DateBowl of rice and chicken 7pm Friday 9/19A book 4:30pm Saturday 9/20

Breakfast sammich 8am Sunday 9/21

El obelisco de pan dulce, Buenos Aires

Sweet Bread Obelisk

1979Iron structure covered covered with 30,000 PanettoneHeight: 98 ft. (30 m.)

MARTA MINUJÍN

El obelisco de pan dulce, Buenos Aires

Sweet Bread Obelisk

1979Iron structure covered covered with 30,000 PanettoneHeight: 98 ft. (30 m.)

MARTA MINUJÍN

El obelisco de pan dulce, Buenos Aires

Sweet Bread Obelisk

1979Iron structure covered covered with 30,000 PanettoneHeight: 98 ft. (30 m.)

MARTA MINUJÍN

OBELISKSFROM THE GREEK OBELISKOS

TEKHENUWHAT THE PEOPLE WHO INVENTED

THEM CALLED THEM

Washington MonumentBuilt by Americans in 1848-1884555’ 5” tall

Luxor Obelisk - ParisBuilt by Egyprtians circa 1400 BCE

Given to the French in 1833

Circa 1860

WASHINGTON MONUMENT

El obelisco de pan dulce, Buenos Aires

Sweet Bread Obelisk

1979Iron structure covered covered with 30,000 PanettoneHeight: 98 ft. (30 m.)

MARTA MINUJÍN

Psychedelic ArtUses a lot of colors and I don’t know….it’s really trippy.ASSumption: hippy swirs, whorls, and colors. LIKE BRIGHT COLORSIN YA FACE COLORS LIKE RAINBOW VOMIT

Pop ArtLike celebrities, popular language like “SWAG” “YOLO”Common things that you see often. Trendy….seems unique at first but it’s really quite common.Bright colors, defined, hi-def.Takes popular CULTURE and transforms it into smething else.

What ideas come to mind when you hear these words?

MARTA MINUJÍN

Psychedelic Art: music, culture, or visual art based on psychedelic or hallucinatory experiences. Typically vibrant in color and tone.

Pop Art : Art based on Popular Culture and Mass Media, especially in critical or ironic ways. This is usually the antithesis of traditional fine art values. Low brow=high brow.

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Parthenon of Books1983 Iron structure and 30.000 books prohibited by the military. 50 x 98 x 40 ft. (15 x 30 x 12 m.).

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THE PARTHENONAlso known as the Acropolis of Athens438 BCE, marble ivory, goldDesigned by Iktinos, Kallikrates, and Phidias (the MAN when it comes to Greek art)

The Parthenon was a structure dedicated to the goddess Athena, who was the patron deity of the Athenian people.Construction began in 447 BC when the Athenian Empire was at the height of its power.It was completed in 438 BC although decoration of the building continued until 432 BC. It is one of the most important buildings of Ancient Greece.

Parthenon of Books1983 Iron structure and 30.000 books prohibited by the military. 50 x 98 x 40 ft. (15 x 30 x 12 m.).

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MARTA MINUJIN

Tower of Babel2011 Iron structure and 30,000 books of different languages

FROM THE BOOK OF GENESIS

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.—Genesis 11:4–9[2]

Example of a “ziggurat” structureIn Confusion of Tonguesby Gustave Doré, 1865

MARTA MINUJÍNAs a pioneer of happenings, performance art, soft sculpture, and video, Marta Minujín pursues a varied and bizarre practice that shows a profound distrust of the collectible art object. Her work is not meant to be bought and sold in the traditional sense.

She often uses ephemeral materials such as cardboard, fabric, and food in work that is both monumental and fragile.

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Letter from Marta Minujín to McDonalds Corporation February 29, 1979

La transformación de la Estatua de la Libertad en comestibleTransformation of the Statue of Liberty into something edible

Marta Minujin1979, Ink on paper

La transformación de la Estatua de la Libertad en comestibleTransformation of the Statue of Liberty into something edible

Marta Minujin1979, Ink on paper

La transformación de la Estatua de la Libertad en comestibleTransformation of the Statue of Liberty into something edible

Marta Minujin1979, Ink on paper

La transformación de la Estatua de la Libertad en comestibleTransformation of the Statue of Liberty into something edible

Marta Minujin1979, Ink on paper

MARTA MINUJÍN

Letter from Diane Klecka, Consumer Affairs Administratorm McDonald’s Corporation to Marta MinujínMay 7, 1980

What do you think the effects of this project would be if it were to be realized?

Minujín’s performance-based installations are driven by a desire to transform art from the static museum display into something dynamic, interactive radical and, ultimately, destructive.

As such, Minujín’s work undergoes a pyrotechnic ritual every few years. Phoenix-like, out of the ashes new creations emerge, unburdened by anything as status quo as cultural legacy.

Carlos Gardel of Fire1981

Iron covered with cotton. Height: 56 ft. (17 m.).

MARTA MINUJÍN

WHAT ARCHITECTURAL SPACE WOULD YOU ALTER? HOW WOULD YOU CHANGE IT?

Team up with a few people and generate some ideas!

GABRIEL SIERRABorn 1975, San Juan Nepomuceno, Colombia. Studied Industrial Design at Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano of Bogotá. Lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia

Sierra actively pursues the social ways we relate to architecture.

While some may walk past his artwork, not realizing it is in fact artwork at all, others may gain a greater appreciate for spatial architectural environments and how we logically design them. While much of his work seems rather minimal, or lacking in material and form, his creations directly relate to the textures, materials and shapes that we associate with ordinariness. Almost as if the site of his installations are under construction.

GABRIEL SIERRAEstructuras para transición 1Structures for Transition 1Mixed media 2008 / 2014

LUIS CAMNITZER Art History Lesson no. 6ten slide projectors 2000

This work is made up of several slide projectors…these are objects that have been used in college lecture halls for the past century, particularly in Art History classes.

Camnitzer’s work points to the fact that Art History is written by those who are in power, which tends to exclude stories, narratives, and dialogues from non-European countries. This work’s empty projectors present viewers with a space within which to imagine and potentially write their own narratives.

POR EJEMPLO…

WHAT IS THIS?HAVE YOU SEEN

IT BEFORE?

Leonardo da VinciMona Lisa1503Oil on panel

Leonardo da VinciMona Lisa1503Oil on panel

Leonardo da VinciMona Lisa1503Oil on panel

The Mona Lisa is one of the most recognizable images in the world. While it was once a relic from the Renaissance zeitgeist, it has transcended that era of time and is an almost timeless representation of “Art” with a capital “A”

It is one of the few pieces of art that becomes…Canon.

Leonardo da VinciMona Lisa1503Oil on panel

Canon:the body of “rules,” principles, or standards in artwork. Canon Artwork is accepted as universally beautiful and well made.

It is Artwork that is treated as a fundamental thing that everyone should know or experience.

Canon:the body of “rules,” principles, or standards in artwork. Canon Artwork is accepted as universally beautiful and well made.It is Artwork that is treated as a fundamental thing that everyone should know or experience.

What other subjects have a Canon?

1. European history2. Civil War history3. Bohr Atomic Model4. Shakespeare

Canon:the body of “rules,” principles, or standards in artwork. Canon Artwork is accepted as universally beautiful and well made.It is Artwork that is treated as a fundamental thing that everyone should know or experience.

What other subjects have a Canon?

1. EINSTEIN: E=MC2 …Theories becoming laws2. SHAKESPEARE 3. HOW TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD4. New york YANKESS 5. Elvis presley …marilyn monroe…n JESUS…CHRISTIANITY

WHAT DOES “GOD” LOOK LIKE?Write 5 adjectives (descriptive words) in your

notebook.White male

HolyOld

Female?Woman of color

Long hair

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WHAT DOES “GOD” LOOK LIKE?Write 5 adjectives (descriptive words) in your notebook.

SPIRITUAL PRESENCE (PRAYER REFERENCES, FOCUS ON POWER…

DARK SKINNED FEMALENON-HUMAN…GHOST

CLOUD WITH MAAASSSSIIIVEEEE HANDSWHITE LIGHT

ROBES, RAGS, GOWN, A LARGE WHITE BEARD

CLOUD BODYDEEP VOICE

OMINOUS FIGURESITS ON A BIG CHAIR…ON A CLOUD

MORGAN FREEMANROSE

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WHERE DOES THIS IMAGERY COME FROM?

CANON VS. ZEITGEIST

The History of art has

Our entire world view is sculpted by Art History…the images left behind by our predecessors.

The History of art has had a profound affect on you and on everyone else. If “History” is how we relate to the past, “Art History” is how we SEE the past, and how we identify with it.

When an image or idea becomes canon, our entire world view is sculpted by it. While these are only the the images left behind by our predecessors, they continue to penetrate our modern culture to this day.

FIGHTING THE “MASTER NARRATIVE” ONE SHADOW PUPPET AT A TIME…

What CULTURAL or NATIONAL histories are erased from the life you live?

What PERSONAL or SOCIAL histories are erased from the life you live?

LUIS CAMNITZER

“The point of art should be to treat the public (students and visitors) as the artists’ colleagues, not as consumers. We should involve them in the thought process without allowing them to dismiss something in a couple of seconds just because they didn’t like or understand what they saw….

…I should confess that I am increasingly less interested in art and more interested in education. The social impact of a piece of art hanging on a wall is relatively small, while the effect of a major change in sharing knowledge in schools is relatively big.”