This publication brings together for the first time Anish Kapoor's architectural projects and
ideas that span the last 40 years. These are concepts that continue to inform all areas of
Kapoor's artistic output many of which have been realized in works that confound the
distinctions between art and architecture pushing architecture into radical new territory.
Kapoor's projects renegotiate the relationship not only between art and architecture but also
between the very sense of space within ourselves and that of the external world. The forms he
presents to us create spaces that blur the duality of subject and object of interior and
exterior. Monochrome fields of color mirrored surfaces and fathomless voids all destabilize
our place in the world. The more than 2 000 sketches models renderings and plans in this book
show the journey of these forms to how they might exist in reality as well as the spaces they
inhabit or create both outside and within us. 'For a long time before - even from the pigment
pieces - I'd been think - ing of my work as potential architecture. I've always been convinced
by the idea that to make new art you have to make new space.' -Anish Kapoor
