La vita è un caos con poche oasi e qualche momento comico. W.A.

The city is all around us. And in architecture rules.
There’s some kind of tension, and mutual attraction between architecture (its shapes, structures, and the implications one can think of), and contemporary art/artsits.
Lately few shows are questioning the issue, and the combination of the two aspects are getting closer. Speaking of architecture, and more precisely about cities’ structuring, is becoming a starting point to deepen different meaning of contemporary human condition.
In this distant dialogue artists and architects confronts mostly through their works influenced – as some are – one by another.
This sort of distant relationship allows to open discussions about the way to decipher not only this or the other project/work of art, but also to re-consider our contemporary human society (or daily living, if you prefer).
The discourse is pretty wide. Choosing few examples, though, we can concentrate on specific focus.
Recently in the Hayward gallery in London the show “Psycho Building” is exploring the experience of architecture. Architectonical elements are interpreted, and used to make a different conscience of human lived space (ie: Geltin, Normally, Proceeding and Unrestricted With Without Title).
Yet London is waiting to get the two selected project to be installed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. Here we are talking about an awareness of a monumental intervention that defines a portion of an open space. Interestingly, Gormley proposes that the public become the work itself as if to say: I stand in the space, and become a structural part of it.
A new proposal concerning the binomial is Cao Fei’s RMB City (here a review of the show in New York City) that explores the concept of the architecture, of the city structure through the virtual space of Second Life. Here the implications widen, we are dealing with a three dimensional space built in a series of algorithms and mathematical functions. Potentially endless, and potentially empty since it is lived by untouchable simulacra of human beings.