Gallery: Mind-Bending Buildings That Were Never Meant to Be Built
Dionisio González from <em>Imagine Architecture</em>, Copyright Gestalten 201401imaginearchitecture-press-p212-213
A new book called *Imagine Architecture: Artistic Visions of the Urban Realm* is a collection of buildings that were never built. They exist in art, literature, or in our imaginations. This one is from a series called *Interacciones*.
Victor Enrich from <em>Imagine Architecture</em>, Copyright Gestalten 201402imaginearchitecture-press-p034-035
Artist and photographer Victor Enrich's retouched photo montages imagine some of the most improbable buildings in the book.
Victor Enrich from <em>Imagine Architecture</em>, Copyright Gestalten 2014032imaginearchitecture-press-p034-035
His work is inspired by the puzzle-like qualities of cities, which he says are "a complex system of nodes that involve and connect everybody’s blurry dreams, exacerbate passions, fearful nightmares, or even tedious social life.”
Robert Overweg from <em>Imagine Architecture</em>, Copyright Gestalten 201404imaginearchitecture-press-p132-133
The *Flying and Floating* series by Thomas Overweg features slivers of scenes taken from computer combat games. These are from Mafia 2.
Robert Overweg from <em>Imagine Architecture</em>, Copyright Gestalten 2014052imaginearchitecture-press-p132-133
The floating windows and fire escapes that lead to nowhere are one way that Overweg emphasizes the limitations of videogame architecture. Games tend to reproduce “what we already know," he says.
Laurent Chehere from <em>Imagine Architecture</em>, Copyright Gestalten 2014062imaginearchitecture-press-p128-129
These floating, magpie-like houses by artist Laurent Chehere don't look like it, but they were all photographed in Paris.
Laurent Chehere from <em>Imagine Architecture</em>, Copyright Gestalten 201407imaginearchitecture-press-p128-129
Chehere composes each one by editing together different elements that create a story based on what he can find out about the history of the building.
Larissa Fassler from <em>Imagine Architecture</em>, Copyright Gestalten 201408imaginearchitecture-press-p148-149
Artist Larissa Fassler combines traditional architectural methods like blueprints and maps with actual human interactions that she observes on the street.
Larissa Fassler from <em>Imagine Architecture</em>, Copyright Gestalten 2014092imaginearchitecture-press-p148-149
This series is based off a Berlin neighborhood and is a collapsed visual narrative of advertisements, Google searches, and graffiti that sprung up over time.
Dionisio González from <em>Imagine Architecture</em>,Copyright Gestalten 201410imaginearchitecture-press-p208-209
These black and white photo engravings belong in the book's last chapter, "The Ruin," because as imagined here, they're abandoned homes of the future that have been claimed by the environment.
Dionisio González from <em>Imagine Architecture</em>, Copyright Gestalten 2014112imaginearchitecture-press-p208-209
In *Interacciones*, Dionisio González created a series of surreal buildings that have melded with nature.
Giordano Poloni from <em>Imagine Architecture</em>, Copyright Gestalten 201412imaginearchitecture-press-p090-091
The buildings in the *Climbing in Love* series are often based on real buildings, but have flourished details, like cement windows.
Giordano Poloni from <em>Imagine Architecture</em>, Copyright Gestalten 2014132imaginearchitecture-press-p090-091
In each seemingly deserted scene, the artist Giordano Poloni paints in a tiny romantic human interaction.
Tom Sachs from <em>Imagine Architecture</em>, Copyright Gestalten 201414imaginearchitecture-press-p078-079
*Unité* built the world's largest replica of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation housing block in Marseille out of foam, Bristol board, and Wite-Out. By creating such an exact replica, the unit is meant to express how impossible it is to stay original in modern architecture.
Matthew Cusick from <em>Imagine Architecture</em>, Copyright Gestalten 201415imaginearchitecture-press-p160-161
Artist Matthew Cusick's collages of imagined highways are scrapped together from old road maps and atlases.
