Untimely Reasoning about Two Monuments. Between Architecture, Sculpture and Site

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Pages: 171-177
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/JPUF7151

Abstract:

The report compares the form-formation principles, key to the architecture of the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts (1983/89) Columbus, Ohio – of the American Peter Eisenmann – with some of the techniques used in the spatial – compositional solution of the destroyed Sofia monument “1300 Years Bulgaria” (1980/81–2017). The text refers to the 80’s of the twentieth century and the creative approaches, distinctive for some of the lastest „large-scale monuments“ realized in Bulgaria. These approaches are considered in the light of one opened architectural theory, absolutely oppositional to the one typical to our country at this time. The comparison aims to are to expand, within this date, the scope of the spatial-artistic analysis, committed to the relationship between the architecture, sculpture and the surrounding environment.

Keywords:

Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Monument “1300 Years Bulgaria”, Sofia, Peter Eisenman, architecture, sculpture

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