federico babina imagines famous art as architectural spaces

federico babina imagines famous art as architectural spaces
all images courtesy of federico babina

through a playful series of 27 illustrations, italian architect and artist federico babina asks, ‘can a work of art be a building?‘. fusing fine art and architecture, which already share a symbiotic relationship, babina imagines ‘archist’, the structural spaces of various creatives, appropriating some of their best known works as a cross-sectional plan. ‘I like finding the hidden architecture in parallel universes — in this sense, the illustration helps me to explore alternative languages’ babina explains. the drawn constructions visualize the surrealist habitat of salvador dali, referencing the vaulted egg-shaped form from ‘vestiges atavique’ and a damien hirst themed edifice, a shark hovering through glass walls and polka dots cladding the roof, an appropriation from the artist’s ‘spot’ series. the images represent an imagined world of shapes that uses a brush to paint architecture.

damien hirst’s building appropriates work from his ‘spot’ series and features a shark visible through glass walls

a surrealist structure lofted in the air references salvaldor dali’s work

master of the readymade, marcel duchamp’s structure has a bicycle wheel and urinal as rooftop elements

anish kapoor’s monumental ‘unilever series’ worked into the design

vibrant light and immersive colorful expanses make up james turrel’s building

a stacked, overlapping construction defines pablo picasso’s illustration 

keith haring’s famous dog drawing is used on the building’s façade

andy warhol’s renowned soup can features on the roof

pop art dots and bold colors exemplify roy lichtenstein’s style

a rusty metallic structure is clearly appropriated from richard serrra’s style

mondrian’s primary colored boxes are stacked into a structural arragment

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