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This article examines the architectural significance of Anselm Kiefer’s situated art practice, exploring how relationships of poetry, history and culture, presented across all of his work, provide vital lessons for architectural thinking and doing. Kiefer’s creation of La Ribaute, outside Barjac, France, is particularly well suited to the study of a hermeneutic approach to architectural creation, since the reinterpretation of historical and mythical themes across painting, sculpture, earthworks and architecture critically situates modern creative practice within the larger continuum of human culture and knowledge.
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Stephen Wischer
Stephen Wischer is an Associate Professor of Architecture at North Dakota State University, where his teaching of history/theory seminars and design studios emphasize interdisciplinary relationships between art, architecture, writing and philosophy. His artwork and architectural investigation involve intensive process-based explorations which have been exhibited in both Canada and the United States. His doctoral research at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, explores hermeneutic readings of artistic creation and historical texts in relation to architectural praxis.