Art worlds. Study and modeling (Review: Art worlds of the 21st century. Ways of integrating architecture and art practices / T.G. Malinina (ed.). Moscow: BuksMArt Publ., 2020. 500 p., Ill.)

Abstract

The book under review fits processes in contemporary architecture and art into the broad context of the living environment transformation by the human. In the book, architecture is considered as a field of searching for artistic integrity, which demands not only an integration of technologies and arts, but also a special mode of modeling technological and aesthetic processes. Hence contemporary architecture is conceptualized as part of the recent art procedures, including installation and performance. The history of art of the 20th century is reinterpreted as the history of art systems aimed at transforming the living environment through the disclosure of the communicative potential of material and form. The review discusses advantages and limitations of that approach.