Instead of architects talking about their designs, this volume puts clients in the spotlight - namely Frederick Samitaur Smith, responsible for the renewal of Culver City, Los Angeles; Thomas Krens, the Director of the Guggenheim Foundation; and Rolf Fehlbaum, the Director of Vitra. It sheds light on the tricky balance of power between the ...
One of the leading representatives of Minimalism, Donald Judd's specific objects, made of steel, wood, aluminum, and Plexiglass, undertook a radical and revolutionary analysis and redefinition of sculpture as it exists in space. Somewhat less familiar are Judd's numerous architectural and furniture designs, works which are closely related in ...
The city of Havana represents a real challenge to contemporary architects. Havana has a rich and diverse heritage with its cultural roots in Andalusia, Africa, the Caribbean, the United States and Soviet Russia, yet many of its historic (16th-19th century) buildings are in need of conservation and restoration. It has slums and a great need for ...
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU's projects include recent urban structures like the BMW Welt, Munich (2001??????07), the Mus????e des Confluences, Lyon (2001??????10), and the European Central Bank, Frankfurt (2003??????11). These and many others are presented through photographs, renderings, planning materials and sketches and offer the reader a look at ...
Artwork by Kevin Appel, Barbara Bloom, Jim Isermann, T. Kelly Mason, Renee Petropoulos, Chris Burden, Julian Opie, David Reed, Jessica Stockholder. Edited by Peter Noever, Peter Noever. Text by Cara Mullio, L. D. Riehle, Kathleen Harleman.
Fragments of the many practices of American architect Peter Eisenman are seen in Barefoot on White-Hot Walls, published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Mak, Vienna. This volume gathers critical texts by Eisenman and other authors, including Mark Wigley and Emmanuel Petit, ample project illustrations from Elseman's entire career, ...
Widely admired for his artfully shaped mounds of vibrantly colored powder pigment, Bombay-born, London-based sculptor Anish Kapoor won the Turner Prize in 1991. Since the 1970s, Kapoor--through poetically abstract works in materials as diverse as stone, steel and glass--has explored the themes of spirituality and transcendence, a preoccupation ...
See here the birth of a radical art scene: laboratories of free artists, clubs, internet cafes, and galleries emerging in Russia between prefab high-rises, slums, and the turreted fortresses of the nouveau riche. Unburdened by old ideologies and metaphysical obsessions, artists in the former Soviet culture houses have been working with new media, ...
Edited by Peter Noever, Etienne Davignon, Paul Dujardin and Anne Mommens. Essays by Val rie Dufour, Anette Freytag, Siegfried Mattl, Paulus Raine and Eduard F. Sekler, and conversations with Marc Hotermans and Heimo Zobernig.
Burden has a love-hate relationship with the machine: Suspended from the ceiling of the gallery or presented in glorious isolation, the toy-like machine becomes an object of fear and worship, however ironically, a mysterious idol to be propitiated and venerated, even if it no longer works. Thus art makes the machine benign by turning into a ...
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