Remember the Italian artist who blended the most popular songs with architecture in a series of posters? Now we have Federico Babina at his best again; but this time, he has mixed the work of some prominent 20th century architects with some classic paintings.
Babina's latest poster series - tiltled "Artisect" - beautifully combines the work of some of the well known art legends like Henri Matisse, Picasso and Paul Klee and starchitects like Zaha Hadid and Louis Kahn and Richard Neutra.
"The project's main idea is to reinterpret famous paintings using a brush soaked in architectural tints," Babina was quoted by Dezeen.
"Celebrating a point of encounter and confrontation between the rigour of the architect and the artist's gesture, these images are a metaphor for an imagined and imaginary dialogue between creative minds," he added.
Babina explained that while some combinations have a relationship, some were just a creative process.
"I tried to find both possible and impossible encounters between artists and architects," he said adding that the whole point of the poster series was "to carefully study the expressive language of an artist and read between the lines the hidden architecture in it, to find the probable and improbable connections between forms of expression and aesthetic languages."
We picked out a few posters we liked best. You can see them below:
Art: Sol Lewitt
Architect: Rem Koolhas
Art: Christo
Architect: Shigeru Ban
Art: Rene Magritte
Architect: Diller Scofidio
Art: Kazimir Malevich
Architect: Zaha Hadid
Art: Giorgio De Chirico
Architect: Tadao Ando
Babina has many thought-provoking projects to his credit. His project - Archimachine - renders countries and their economies as machines and gets it absolutely right. He also made portraits of architects' faces in their signature style building forms too.
See all his projects here.
While Babina's projects are pure art, other creative minds are trying other innovative things that make us wonder if there were any boundaries to architecture.
Recently, a couple of London-based architects decided to combine their passion for the game of chess and architecture and converted the chessboard pieces to resemble the London skyline, literally.
Also, a whole island in Japan was turned into a board game.
