CRI Art: History   

Architecture is a “fine art” along with painting and sculpture, but the shackles of utility have hampered its fine art designation. With the destruction of the Pruitt Igo housing project in 1972 and the rise of post-modernism, those shackles have been loosened. Architects could begin to explore expressive and philosophic art. Compare the modernist expression “Form follows function” and “truth to materials” to post-modern expressions “the decorated shed,” “conceptual form,” and “decomposition of geometric systems.” These phrases express a bid for freedom from utility and yield wildly different architectural forms. Architecture behaves as a divergent pursuit. The more architects who work on a problem, the more solutions are generated. Pure engineering problems behave as though there is a single best solution. This course investigates the multiplicity of architectural ideas and forms that freedom encourages.

Class begins in less than 2 business days or is already in session... Please call 425.640.1830 or email cri@edmonds.edu to register.

Class begins in less than 2 business days or is already in session... Please call 425.640.1830 or email cri@edmonds.edu to register.