Art As Architecture: Naples' 'Folly'

8 May 2003 - 8:00am

Naples hires Anish Kapoor, one of the world's greatest sculptors, to design a subway station.

Artists are often asked to collaborate with architects, but their contribution rarely goes beyond providing a sculpture for the lobby or a mobile for the stairwell. Naples is different: the station itself will be a work of art. Kapoor can't think of another instance when an artist has been asked to design such an important building alone, and he laughs at the absurdity of the proposition.

Source: The Guardian Unlimited, May 7, 2003
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.