SANTIAGO CALATRAVA SHOES

The architecture of Santiago Calatrava is captured flawlessly in a series of cutting-edge shoes by Tea Petrovic for a project at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo. I have created a shoe collection, as my graduating project, that is centered around the idea that each shoe is an sculpturalarchitectural structured form. To underline their sculptural form, the shoes are kept white, which on the other hand emphasis the artistic language, present in the entire collection.

REM KOOLHAAS SHOES

The nephew of famed architect Rem Koolhaas, and an architect himself, Rem D. Koolhaas teamed up with British shoemaker Galahad Clark to create a line of architectural shoes for their brand United Nude. United Nude designs has also been inspired by other art forms, like furniture they have a shoe that honors designers Charles and Ray Eames.

Mojito, designed by architect Julian Hakes, is an ultra minimal shoe consisting of a single piece that wraps around the wearers foot, forming support for the heel and ball, with the foot naturally forming a bridge between the two.

architects create brand names now, its useful to commercial industry to associate with those names in the same way they do with movie stars. purists out there probably find the idea of my designing a shoe abhorrent, but I dont know why. were going

back to the renaissance model, in which artists could work in any discipline. FG