Architecture entered art long before it became a poster subject: the engraved elevation and section, inherited from Renaissance treatises and perfected in the nineteenth century, first served to teach and to document monuments. Then the twentieth-century avant-gardes seized it differently. Robert Delaunay broke the Eiffel Tower into coloured planes following the principles of Orphism, and the Bauhaus treated the straight line, the skyscraper and the staircase as exercises in pure construction. These architecture posters bring those two families together: the scholarly survey and invented geometry.
Here you will meet Delaunay's Orphist Eiffel Tower, the nineteenth-century elevation of the Pisa campanile, Milan's Duomo, the San Francisco Golden Gate, the Castel Nuovo in Naples, as well as a whole series of Bauhaus pieces (skyscraper of lines, surreal architecture, spheres). Graphic and grounding, they favour clean walls: an entrance, a study, a hallway or a workspace where the rigour of the line echoes the space.
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