Studio Other Spaces is the first monograph on the studio founded by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann, tracing how their practice dissolves the boundary between architecture and art through experimental built works and public installations.
About This Book
Studio Other Spaces (SOS) operates at the intersection of architecture and contemporary art, treating each project as a vehicle for investigating the relationship between people, programme, and site. This monograph — the first dedicated to the studio — brings together architectural works by Studio Olafur Eliasson alongside joint SOS commissions, revealing how interdisciplinary practice can produce buildings and installations that resist easy categorisation. For architects and designers interested in how spatial thinking and artistic inquiry can coexist in a single built proposition, this volume documents a body of work that is both formally ambitious and publicly engaged. Essential reading for those tracking experimental architecture and art in public space.
Key Features
- 160 pages of project documentation, architectural works, and installation imagery
- Contributions by Moisés Puente, Paola Antonelli, Olafur Eliasson, and Sebastian Behmann
- Featured works include the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre façades, Reykjavik (in collaboration with Henning Larsen Architects), and Your Rainbow Panorama at the Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
- Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, ISBN: 9783753307817
What You'll Discover
- How SOS uses individual projects as a means of investigating specific locations and the social dynamics embedded in a site — rather than applying a fixed formal language
- The intersection of large-scale public art installation and building design, demonstrated through projects such as the geometric glass façade system at Harpa Concert Hall
- The collaborative model between Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann, and how the studio's interdisciplinary structure shapes its architectural output
- How works like Your Rainbow Panorama engage public audiences through experiential and perceptual means, extending the studio's concerns beyond the purely tectonic
About the Author
This volume features texts by Moisés Puente alongside contributions from Paola Antonelli, Olafur Eliasson, and Sebastian Behmann. Olafur Eliasson is an internationally recognised artist and architect; Sebastian Behmann is his co-founder at Studio Other Spaces, where the two lead an interdisciplinary practice spanning architecture, art, and experimental public projects.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 160
- Dimensions: 300mm x 230mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783753307817
- Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and designers engaged with art-architecture crossover practice, students researching experimental public space, and those following the work of Olafur Eliasson and Studio Other Spaces.