Stallan-Brand

The PDF download above is an extract from the summer edition of the Royal Institute of Architects Quarterly publication that profiles Patrica Fleming and Paul Stallan's editoral celebrating contemporary art practice and its relevance to architecture.

"Art communicates aesthetically. This means it engages our senses. A celebration of aesthetic is surely more attractive than the opposite. The opposite of the word aesthetic is anaesthetic. If we are provided an aesthetic experience, it engages us. Buildings with no aesthetic … dull us. The argument for art in architecture is therefore irrefutable. It is dumb culture that is the problem. Our procurement environment is more often fashioned by those who are indifferent to culture with no inherent understanding of value different from cost. This is the space where creative practice needs to lead by example and evidence art as necessity." Paul Stallan