Finding Inspiration in Art and Architecture

By Sonya Falkovskaia

How we seek inspiration, and what we wish to get from it is something that all creative people have in common. However, as I made the transition from an art-student to an architecture-student, I noticed that more I wonder whether Art and Architecture do draw inspiration from like to think.

Architecture seems to have the power to inspire, through the existence of people in a space, each creates their own unique memories within those spaces. One artist who brings this into his own work is Do Ho Suh, when his intricate but colossal woven sculptures represent spaces he himself has lived in, and how those spaces have inspired him.

Mark Rothko’s ‘Seagram Murals’ is another example of art informing

Rothko and he repeated this motif within his paintings, bringing with him was a sculptor at heart, but his success in creating both masterpieces of Art and Architecture show that perhaps one inspiring the other reaps

On the other hand, those who go from Art towards Architecture present a unique product which highlights this often unclear relationship between are clues to the creator being of an artistic background but as a result it makes this example of Architecture to be that much more elegant.

Architecture were to draw inspiration from each other more often, and learn from one another, monumental outcomes could be acheived,

By Dan Duckworth