These structures are not so much architecture, or potential architecture, as conservative forms of installation art or marginally habitable sculpture, as in the case of models for a chapel and another for a gatehouse dominated by big pinwheeling spirals.
His works also established a new tradition of perceiving art and a new way of adapting specific work to specific places (site specificity), through various forms of installation and what was later known as environmental art.
Whilst so much sculpture, even within the contemporary form of installation, is a matter of contriving monumental presences, there's always something missing, or amiss, with Olabarrieta.
"For us, food is an expressive medium, and the feast is a form of installation art," she says, acknowledging that it is also the most direct route to her neighbors' hearts.
The six ambitious, cosmopolitan Puerto Rican artists in this show -- four men and two women, all in their 30's, all working with some form of installation -- are a lively crew.
"The logic seems to be to build a container and then leave it to artists to deal with it, but the result on the art side is likely to be a default form of installation work," he writes, in a piece published last year in the London Review of Books.
The series took the form of installations, performances, film, collage and paintings, including the canvas shown here, from the triptych "Nibelungen".
For the past decade and a half, she has been working on visual art in the form of installations that combine video, photography, and sculpture.
It's easy to forget that the largest music retailer in the world isn't Amazon, it's Apple: the iTunes Music Store is now 10 years old and has more than 300m outlets – in the form of installations on people's computers, iPhones and iPads.
Originally released on the darknet, the videos now take the form of installations for the gallery exhibition.
Jakobsons has been inspired by cymatics and transducing sound waves into different mediums for many years now, mainly in the form of installations.
