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Article: The city as sculpture. (Academy Forum).(Brief Article)
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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This report by Jeremy Melvin records the proceedings of the Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Forum, which investigates concerns common to contemporary artists and architects. Held at the Royal Academy in London, the most recent forum explored the relationship between architecture and sculpture. The series is sponsored by Derwent Valley Holdings plc.
Is the city a work of art, as distinguished urban historian Donald Olsen suggested? Jacob Burckhardt, who more or less invented the discipline of cultural history in the nineteenth century, would certainly have had no doubt. In his Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy he described how even a state might become a ...