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L’illustrateur et architecte italien très talentueux Federico Babina revient avec une série de 33 portraits d’architectes célèbres dont les visages sont constitués par leurs styles d’architecture. Un série très inspirée et réussie à découvrir en intégralité sur Fubiz dans la suite de l’article.

Iconic works from artists including Piet Mondrian, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Marcel Duchamp and more are reinterpreted as cross-sectional drawings of buildings in this series from Italian architect and illustrator Federico Babina (+ slideshow).

The collection of 27 images, entitled Archist, playfully interprets the styles and themes of some of the world’s greatest artists including Picasso, Salvador Dali and Joan Miro, and imagines them as architectural forms.

Babina explores the symbiotic relationship between architecture and art, and how they would interact with each other.

“Art and architecture are disciplines that speak and lightly touch each other,” explained Babina. “The definition and function of architecture is changing constantly with the development of contemporary art.”

The artist tried to imagine what a house designed by Dali or a museum designed by Miro might look like.

“A sculpture is like a micro-architecture, a facade can become like a painted canvas and a building can be shaped as in the hands of a skilled sculptor,” he said.

Among some of the most recognisable works is Roy Lichtenstein’s comic-book style and block colour schemes laid over a Modernist-style house on stilts.

Sliced images of Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych are spread across rooms decorated in bright colours with two Campbell’s tomato soup cans placed atop the rectangular building.

Damien Hirst’s 2005 piece Wrath of God featuring a shark set in formaldehyde and his colourful dot series Mickey are used to bring a modular building to life.

An eclectic and almost random arrangement of shapes make up the Picasso building, echoing the artist’s dabblings with Cubism.

Marcel Duchamp’s building, meanwhile, draws on the artist’s Roue de Bicyclette, reinterpreting it as a pulley system watched over by the Dadaist’s Fountain urinal.

Salvador Dali’s distorted and surrealist shapes are propped up by wooden stilts and feature windows resembling an eye and nostril in Babina’s interpretation.

Joan Miro’s Dancer is used to liven up a square building with the addition of circular and square windows and a deep blue finish.

“Painting, sculpture and architecture have always been complementary disciplines that influence each other and grow and develop among common paths,” Babina concluded.

The artist is planning on turning this and some of his other work into a book.

Previously, Babina created an illustrated series of film sets in self-contained cross sections called Archiset. He also designed an alphabet of illustrated letters that depict buildings by 26 famous architects.

Here’s some information from Federico Babina:

Can a work of art be a building ?

ARCHIST is a playful interpretation of the expressive language and aesthetic of some of the most popular artists. I enjoyed creating 27 “paintingsprojects” which represented 27 different artists.

There is a Symbiotic Relationship an implicit partnership between Architecture and Art, different art branches meet in many fields.

Art and architecture are disciplines that speak and lightly touch each other, the definition and function of the architecture are changing constantly with the development of contemporary art.

In this exercise of style I took pleasure imagining architecture steeped of art, designed and constructed through the interpretation of an artist’s language.

Art, architecture and sculpture are historically linked by an unbreakable thread, we find examples of paintings and sculptures having a direct influence on architectural design.

It is easy to find the art hidden behind an architectural shape or see reflected a geometry of a building painted on a canvas. It is impossible to conceive of the history of art in exclusion from that of architecture.

Painting sculpture and architecture have always been complementary disciplines that influence each other and feed to grow and develop along common paths.

A sculpture is like a micro-architecture, a facade can become like a painted canvas and a building can be shaped as in the hands of a skilled sculptor.

I like finding the hidden architecture in parallel universes, in this sense, the illustration helps me to explore alternative languages.

I tried to imagine how it would have been a house designed by Dalí or a museum designed by Miró.

These images represent an imaginary and imagined world of shapes that uses the brush to paint architecture.

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Famous film set designs are translated into detailed cross sections that resemble the insides of dolls’ houses in this series of illustrations by architect and illustrator Federico Babina.

The collection of 17 posters is entitled Archiset and accurately replicates interiors from iconic films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and The Shining by Stanley Kubrick.

Federico Babina wanted to create an architectural representation of the set designs and chose to present them as two-dimensional elevations, like a cross section of a dolls’ house with characters appearing in familiar poses.

“The idea was to find a different form of expression to be able to enter and walk inside a movie,” Babina told Dezeen.

The artist said the selection of movies was based on his favourite set designs: “The film, its atmosphere and script are a fundamental guide for the ideation and design of the posters.”

Each of the illustrations depicts key details and props from the original sets, which were integral to the plot of the films.

Among the recognisable images is the apartment from 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, where Audrey Hepburn’s character lounges in a bath in her living room.

The set designed by Ken Adams for the ranch occupied by the famous villain Auric Goldfinger in the 1964 James Bond film is also featured.

The illustration of the Overlook Hotel from The Shining includes details such as an axe lodged in a door and the entrance to the haunted Room 237.

Darth Vader appears in front of the bridge on the Death Star.

Babina has previously created an alphabet of illustrated letters that depict buildings by 26 famous architects and a set of graphics representing architects in the form of vintage video game characters.

Here’s a short text from the artist:

The project is called Archiset. The idea is to represent a film set as if it were a doll’s house where we can start to play with the imagination together with the movie’s characters.

I am representing some of my favourite and inspiring movie set interiors. Seventeen images where cinema and architecture merge into a single frame to speak the same language.

In a movie we discover the spaces through the camera movement that reveals the spaces where the main characters live.

I enter on tiptoe through the drawing in the rooms and environments where there’s the film’s life: I touch objects, I look through the windows, I open doors.

I like to think that in a set design each object is carefully chosen. Nothing is left to chance.

Each item participates in the script and helps the development of the plot. A half-full glass on a table reveals clues and becomes part of the puzzle that makes up the story.

In these films every room has a style and a defined personality and contains surprises and unexpected details. They are like big magic boxes full of stories and characters, able to make us dream.

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The buildings of 26 prolific architects are transformed into letters of the alphabet in this series of detailed illustrations by graphic designer Federico Babina.

Entitled Archibet, the collection of images works its way though the alphabet from A to Z, so that each character is represented by an architect whose name starts (or ends) with the same letter.

Federico Babina started with Alvar Aalto’s Riolo Parish Church, before working his way thorough an assortment of buildings that include Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus school, Louis Kahn’s Phillips Exeter Academy Library and Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion.

The series concludes with Zaha Hadid’s Library and Learning Centre in Vienna, but also features Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House, Oscar Niemeyer’s National Congress of Brazil and Gerrit Rietveld’s Schröder House.

As well as producing individual images for each letter, Babina has compiled all 26 into a single poster image to create street scenes made up of groups of letters.

“The idea was to build a small microcosm of imaginary architecture on realistic foundations,” the designer told Dezeen.

“Each letter is a small surrealist building that becomes part of an imaginary city made up of different shapes and styles, all speaking the same language of architecture,” he added.

Babina created the images using a mixture of different techniques, from hand-drawing to 3D computer modelling.

“When I create the illustrations I always use a collage of different techniques and programs,” he said. “These different ingredients allow me to achieve the desired atmosphere.”

According to Babina, the most challenging part of the process was choosing which architects to feature.

“The choice was often guided by an inspiration rather than the importance of the architect,” he explained. “Many letters may be represented by other designers, but I chose the ones that best represented my imaginary.”

This is the second illustration project by the designer that borrows imagery from famous architects and buildings. Last year he created a series of pictures that depicted architects and their buildings like vintage video game characters.

Here’s a short description from Federico Babina:

Archibet

An alphabet is a standard set of letters which is used to write one or more languages based on the general principle that the letters represent phonemes of the spoken language.

Architecture is an “international language”, a system of communication. Its complex structure affords a wider range of possible expressions and uses.

The idea on which the Archibet project is based is to find a way to express through 26 illustrations the heterogeneity of forms and styles that make up the architecture.

Each letter is drawn according to the interpretation of an architect’s style. Each letter is a small surrealist architecture that becomes part of an imaginary city made up of different shapes and styles that speak the same language of architecture.

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