Architecture as funambulism, materialistic and idealistic imbalances with art and landscape

Abstract

Introduction: The theoretical-practical relationships and balances between architecture, art and landscape raise epistemological questions about matter and ideas that are complex to answer by the scientific method, although they use its procedures to understand them; It is part of the architect's job to rebalance the technical with the artistic like a tightrope walker in the face of the impossibility of explaining qualities in terms of quantities. The methodology used corresponds mainly to the study of two cases, based on the collaborative work between the architect José Luis Sert and the artist Joan Miró in the process of materializing a workshop and a museum, which the architect designed together with the artist around the years 60s of the 20th century.Results: it was possible to show the rebalancing relationships that architects and artists must carry out when faced with an architectural-artistic intervention in the landscape, showing that quantitative and technical information acquires similar importance to qualitative information, related to phenomenology, sensitivity, art and creativity; The conclusions corroborate the thesis of the difficulties and challenges for architects and artists, to achieve balance - metaphorically speaking as a tightrope walker does - between architecture, art and landscape from design practice to professional construction practice.