Topic: Understanding how Art influences Architecture:

-Preeti Nataraj, 18bar027

Keywords: Abstraction, Movements, Artist, Architecture, History

History has always brought Art into Architecture, as a form of understanding space and/or
to illustrate the space, starting right at Michelangelo’s Sistine chapel ceilings which are
painted to highlight the form of the chapel that tells a story. Art tells a story; architecture
manifests the story; that’s how boundaries between the two are blurred.
The geometric developments in the field of Architecture stem from Art as well.
Looking into the development in Architecture, the 'circular' is a symbol of eternity in Islamic
construction, a form without a beginning or a and. It is the greatest ideal and a
manifestation of justice. The most fundamental and parent figure of all geometric polygons
is the circle. The 'Dome,' a highly geometric aspect, has become a more common feature in
Islamic architecture. It is said to be a 'picture of heaven.' The ‘square' is regarded as the
most externalised form of creation, as well as a metaphor for the 'earth.' In religious and
public buildings, these basic geometric forms are applied in a variety of ways.
The Romans aspired to establish a symbolic representation of a new type of systematic
world order, one that included a unified religion, a single body of laws, and a unified society.
This organisational spirit is revealed in their manner of grouping buildings as in the Forums,
in the organisation of business activities in common centres, in the combination of three
orders on the exterior of the building as in the colosseum. This influence carries onwards
even in the form of movements, the De-Stilj movement and further with Piet Mondrian
inspired buildings that take the art piece and develop each square as a space and
interconnect them. This blur and cohesive form of Art and Architecture is to be sensitively
designed for any art form to sustain and for any architecture to be unique.