In this seminar we will engage late 20th century discourses of art and architecture, and examine the architectures of display, including gallery, museum and exhibition design. How have architects engaged practices of avant-garde artistic movements, especially those which overturned conventional representational techniques, media and content? How have artists responded to architectural modernism's socio-aesthetic visions? What spatial and formal practices "expanded the field" of art to include temporal and interactive environments? From the Arts & Crafts movement to Sigfried Giedion's definition of modern architecture as the synthesis of art and engineering, the recurring idea of "the synthesis of the arts" has influenced the work of many individual artists and architects. In the Postwar period, an expanded expression of this synthesis emerged to include art, furniture, architecture, landscape and planning. We will look at the work of individuals who practiced interdisciplinarity, including Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, Asger Jorn, Victor Vasarely, Nicolas Schoffer as well as collaborative groups like Groupe Espace, the Situationists International, the Independent Group, Cobra, Archizoom and Superstudio.

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