Coachella, the annual music festival that takes place in California's Colorado Desert, is a spectacle on numerous levels, but it is the associated visual artists, architects, sculptors, and designers that are an often overlooked element of event's success. Below are the best architectural installations of Coachella 2016.

A photo posted by Onch Movement | Jewelry (@onchmovement) on Apr 18, 2016 at 12:04am PDT
Coachella, the annual music festival that takes place in California's Colorado Desert, is a spectacle on numerous levels, but it is the associated visual artists, architects, sculptors, and designers that are an often overlooked element of event's success. Below are the best architectural installations of Coachella 2016. Alex Arrechea, Katrina Chairs: A photo posted by Alexandre Arrechea (@alexandrearrechea) on Apr 16, 2016 at 1:47pm PDT Like many of Arrechea?s sculpture and installation works, Katrina Chairs began with a watercolor painting, A Few Days Before Katrina (Diálogo). Practical and immediate, watercolor is the artist?s primary medium. He cherishes the watercolor as the only part of his process that he shares with no other hands. With Katrina Chairs, he imagines a structure that lifts the community from the danger and encourages a dialog about the purpose and possibilities of space and design. He constructed the four Katrina Chairs with steel I beams covered with plywood. Each supports one side of an improbably situated building, a Dadaist juxtap...