Designing the World\'s Best: Public Art ISBN 9781864700824

Designing the World's Best: Public Art  ISBN 9781864700824

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Explores the collaboration between artist and client in relation to the featuring of art in a public space. This book includes written descriptions and approximately 200 illustrations which identify artists, architects, artworks and their settings. It features the most prominent 'money for art' programs in the United States.

This book explores the collaboration between artist and client in relation to featuring art in a public space. It includes written descriptions and approximately 200 illustrations which identify artists, architects, artworks and their settings. The content focuses on the level of collaboration between artists, architects and the public with attention to the impact their projects have on the communities where they were installed. Public art is unique because it requires sveral groups, often with different interests to work collaboratively in seeking inventive design solutions. The materiao has been compiled by the internationally renowned public artist and academic professor Garrison Roots. Each artist and contributing program has been selected for excellence and the quality of its general review.

Table of contents

Introduction  13 (5)

ARTISTS 

 Terry Allen   18 (6)

 Notre Denver, 1994   19 (1)

 Modern Communication, 1995  20 (1)

 Corporate Head, l990   21 (2)

 Belief, 1999   23 (1)

 Joan Llaveria Arasa   24 (8)

 Line 3 of Valencia's Subway, 1999   25 (2)

 Sculptural Garden of Font del riu, 1999   27 (2)

 Cultural Center, ``La Asuncion'', 1998   29 (1)

 Gran Caribe Hotel, 1998   30 (2)

 Ed Carpenter   32 (10)

 Market Street Pedestrian Bridge, 2001  33 (2)

 Flying Bridge, 1998   35 (1)

 Hokkaido Sports Center, 1999   36 (3)

 Sphere, 1997  39 (2)

 Broadway Pumphouse Sculpture, 2000   41 (1)

 Brad Goldberg   42 (8)

 Continuum, 2000   43 (2)

 Bloomington Waters, 1996   45 (1)

 Prince of Peace Catholic Community, 1994   46 (2)

 Pegasus Plaza, l994   48 

 Mears Park, 1993   47 (3)

 Douglas Hollis   50 (8)

 A Sound Garden, 1983   51 (1)

 Water Songs, 1996   52 (1)

 Oianos, 1997   53 (1)

 Mountain Mirage, 1999   54 (2)

 Tidal Park, 1988   56 (1)

 Weather Pavilion, 1993   57 (1)

 Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel   58 (8)

 Metronome, 1999   59 (1)

 Oculus, 1999   60 (2)

 Sounding, 1994   62 (1)

 Parenthesis, 1998   63 (2)

 Mnemonics, 1992  65 (1)

 Stacy Levy   66 (6)

 Seeing the Path of the Wind, 1991   67 (2)

 Watercourse, l996   69 (1)

 What's in the Wind, 1991   70 (1)

 Medal of Honor Memorial for Pennsylvania Recipients, 1997                   71 (1)

 Winifred Lutz                                                                                                    72 (6)

 Correspondence/Congruence (Paradigm), 1995                                             73 (1)

 Site Unseen/Fluid Bodies, 1998                                                                         74 (1)

 The Garden, l992-1997                                                                                      75 (1)

 Reclamation Garden, 1996                                                                                 76 (1)

 Threshold/Interface/Transition When, 1997                                                    77 (1)

 William Maxwell                                                                                                 78 (4)

 Echo, 1999                                                                                                          79 (1)

 Endangered, l994                                                                                                80 (1)

 Pandora, l989                                                                                                        81 (1)

 Anna Valentina Murch               82 (10)

 Skydance, l995                             83 (2)

 Cycles, 1997                                85 (2)

 Skytones, 1998                            87 (2)

 Light Passageway, 1993   89 (1)

 Memorial Union North Courtyard, 1993 90 (2)

 Jody Pinto        92 (6)

 Boone Sculpture Garden, 1995-2000         93 (1)

 Beacon Overlook and Restrooms, 1995-2001        94 (1)

 Lantern Bridge, l995-2001     95 (2)

 Light Islands, 1999    97 (1)

 Antonette Rosato   98 (8)

 The Pattern that Connects, 1995   99 (1)

 Immigrant Desire/American Longing: The Vestibule, 1998   100 (1)

 Immigrant Desire/American Longing: The Return, 1998   101 (2)

 Middle Knowledge, l999   103 (1)

 Kinetic Light/Air Curtain, 1994   104 (2)

 Dean Ruck   106 (6)

 Big Bubble, 1998   107 (1)

 0 House, 1995   108 (1)

 Tree House, 2000   109 (2)

 Jewel, 2000   111 (1)

 Norie Sato   112 (10)

 Dallas Convention Center Expansion Project, 1993   113 (2)

 Biochemistry Waltz, 1998   115 (1)

 Brief Cases, 1998   116 (3)

 Gallivan Plaza Light Rail Station, 2000   119 

 Courthouse Station, 2000   117 (5)

PUBLIC ART PROGRAMS 

 Broward County Cultural Affairs Council   122 (6)

 Accordant Zones, 1994/Barbara Neijna and Ned Smyth   123 (1)

 Calypso, 1998/Tobey Archer   124 (2)

 Everglades Tresspass, 2000/Carl Cheng

 Light Cylinders, 1996-2001/Jody Pinto   127 (1)

 City of San Diego Commission for Art and Culture   128 (6)

 Metro Biosolids Center, 1998/Richard Turner   129 (1)

 The Alvarado Garden, 1998/Robert Millar   130 (3)

 Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition, 1997/Cindy Zimmerman   133 (1)

 Cultural Arts Council of Houston   134 (8)

 Countree Music, 1999/Terry Allen   135 (1)

 Seven Wonders, 1998/Mel Chin   136 (3)

 Elevator Core, 2000/Rachel Hecker   139 (1)

 Metro Bus Shelter, 1999/Rachel Hecker, Benito Huerta and Richard Turner   139 (3)

 MTA Metro Art   142 (8)

 Vermont Santa Monica Station, 1999/Robert Millar   145 (1)

 People Coming People Going, 1996/Richard Wyatt   146 (3)

 Crenshaw Stories, 1995/Buzz Spector   149 

 I Dreamed I Could Fly, 1993/Jonathan Borofsky   143 (7)

 Miami-Dade Art in Public Places   150 (8)

 A Walk on the Beach, Phase I, 1995, Phase II, 1999/Michele Oka Doner   151 (2)

 36th Street Wall, 1996/Martha Schwartz   153 (1)

 Harmonic Runway, 1995/Christopher Janney   154 (3)

 Aqua/Botanica, 1997/Ed Carpenter, Mike McCulloch and John Rogers   157 (1)

 Phoenix Arts Commission 158 (6)

 Papago Park/City Boundary, 1992/Jody Pinto  159 (2)

 An Open Book, 1996/Mayme Kratz, Debra L. Hopkins, Valerie Badala Homer  161 (1)

 Paradise Lane Bridge, 1998/Linnea Glatt with HDR Engineering       162 (1)

 The Grasshopper Bridge 1997/Ed Carpenter           162 (1)

 Nisbet Road Pedestrian Bridge, 1998/Laurie Lundquist in partnership with HDR Engineering     163 (1)

 San Francisco Arts Commission         164 (6)

 Functional and Fantasy Stair/Cyclone Fragment, 1996/Alice Aycock                 165 (1)

 Constellation, 1996/Nayland Blake         166 (1)

 Jury Assembly Room, 1997-98/Lewis Desoto                        167 (1)

 Civic Center Courthouse Entry Doors, Security Gates, and Door Handles, 1997-1998/Albert Paley   67(1)

 Untitled, 1996/Ann Hamilton and Ann Chamberlain        168 (2)

 San Jose Public Art Program      170 (12)

 Origin, 1999/Brad Goldberg, Beliz Brother and Joseph McShane            171 (2)

 Untitled, 1999/Ann Chamberlain and Victor Mario Zaballa    173 (3)

 Jump Cuts, 1996/Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, with Paul Lewis  176 (6)

General Credits  182 (6)

Photography Credits  188 (3)

Index  191 (1)   

Acknowledgments  192