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In the Fall of 2004, The Museum of Modern Art completed a major expansion and renovation of its famous midtown Manhattan building, doubling the Museum's size and introducing dynamic new galleries and public spaces. At the core of the remodeled Museum, designed by architect Yoshio Taniguchi, is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, newly restored to its 1953(...)
A modern garden: The abby aldrich rochefeller sculpture garden at the museum of modern art
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In the Fall of 2004, The Museum of Modern Art completed a major expansion and renovation of its famous midtown Manhattan building, doubling the Museum's size and introducing dynamic new galleries and public spaces. At the core of the remodeled Museum, designed by architect Yoshio Taniguchi, is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, newly restored to its 1953 dimensions. Described by Taniguchi as "perhaps the most distinctive single element of the Museum today," the Sculpture Garden, an oasis of water, trees and masterpieces of modern sculpture, has long been the Museum's signature space--as well as its social heart. This fully illustrated, affordable, pocket-sized book is designed to convey the beauty and elegance of the garden. It also features a photographic chronology of the many performances, exhibitions and events held in the garden over the years, as well as an introduction and a brief historical narrative.
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"Groundswell : constructing the contemporary landscape" presents 23 projects that reveal the surge of creativity and discussion surrounding the designed landscape in a broad, principally urban, international context. In the last 20 years, many significant new public spaces have been created for sites that have been reclaimed from conflict, environmental degradation, and(...)
Groundswell : constructing the contemporary landscape
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"Groundswell : constructing the contemporary landscape" presents 23 projects that reveal the surge of creativity and discussion surrounding the designed landscape in a broad, principally urban, international context. In the last 20 years, many significant new public spaces have been created for sites that have been reclaimed from conflict, environmental degradation, and abandonment. The projects, found throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, were selected for their design, and for their variety of contexts, materials, scale, and types of spaces. This fully illustrated volume includes an essay by Peter Reed, Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, that demonstrates how these innovative projects expand the definition of the modernist landscape while responding to a variety of conditions such as program, social function, and the transformation and reclamation previously industrial areas. The essay is followed by a full-color plate section featuring the selected projects. Catalogue entries for each project provide a succinct description of the site, its transformation, and design concepts illustrated by photographs, drawings, and models.
Urban Landscapes
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"Ken Smith landscape architect / urban projects" focuses on three prominent works in New York City : the East River Ferry Landings, P.S. 19, and a roof garden for the Museum of Modern Art. Featuring an interview with Ken Smith and extensive photographic documentation and drawings, as well as an essay by Nina Rappaport and a foreword by Peter Reed. The book reveals how(...)
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
December 2005, New York
Ken Smith, landscape architect : urban projects 2
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"Ken Smith landscape architect / urban projects" focuses on three prominent works in New York City : the East River Ferry Landings, P.S. 19, and a roof garden for the Museum of Modern Art. Featuring an interview with Ken Smith and extensive photographic documentation and drawings, as well as an essay by Nina Rappaport and a foreword by Peter Reed. The book reveals how each project espresses new relationships between landscape and place within the city.
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
Alvar Aalto apartments
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Alvar Aalto Apartments opens views into Aalto’s ideals about dwelling. The internal organisation of an apartment, the relationship of the home to the outside world, the movement from one space to another and the “city on the hill” were all issues of importance in Aalto’s deliberations, as he tried to solve the problematics of dwelling. The book presents ten apartment(...)
Architecture Monographs
June 2004, Helsinki
Alvar Aalto apartments
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Alvar Aalto Apartments opens views into Aalto’s ideals about dwelling. The internal organisation of an apartment, the relationship of the home to the outside world, the movement from one space to another and the “city on the hill” were all issues of importance in Aalto’s deliberations, as he tried to solve the problematics of dwelling. The book presents ten apartment blocks and two student dormitories by Aalto built in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and the United States, from the 1920s to the end of the 1960s: Aira Building Railway officials’ housing, Jyväskylä, Finland, ROT houses, ‘Slope-door houses’, Sunila, Finland Standard terrace housing, Kauttua, Finland, Baker House, Senior Dormitory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, National Pensions Institute employee housing, Helsinki, Finland, Hansaviertel apartment building, Berlin, Germany, Housing and business complex, ‘Sundh Centre’, Avesta, Sweden, Korkalovaara apartment buildings, Rovaniemi, Finland, Neue Vahr apartment building, Bremen, Germany, Harjuviita apartment buildings, Tapiola, Espoo, Finland, Student housing, Helsinki University of Technology, Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland, Schönbühl apartment building, Lucerne, Switzerland.
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