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Thomas Demand
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Né en 1964 à Munich, Thomas Demand occupe une place tout à fait à part dans la photographie allemande. D´abord sculpteur travaillant sur le papier, il a appris la photographie pour enregistrer ses créations éphémères, avant que l´appareil photographique ne vienne occuper la place centrale de son processus créatif. Avec minutie, il crée devant l´objectif des maquettes de(...)
Thomas Demand
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Né en 1964 à Munich, Thomas Demand occupe une place tout à fait à part dans la photographie allemande. D´abord sculpteur travaillant sur le papier, il a appris la photographie pour enregistrer ses créations éphémères, avant que l´appareil photographique ne vienne occuper la place centrale de son processus créatif. Avec minutie, il crée devant l´objectif des maquettes de papier évoquant les architectures du XXe siècle. Cet ouvrage, réalisé à l´occasion de l´exposition Thomas Demand organisée par la Fondation Cartier en novembre 2000, rassemble ses créations réalisées entre 1994 et 2000. Les maquettes patiemment reconstruites dans l´atelier puis capturées par l´objectif constituent une réflexion inédite sur le statut de l´image et du simulacre.
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September 2001
Photography monographs
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Scenography presents international projects of Atelier Bruckner 2002-2010 and the underlying design processes. From abstract drafts like the conceptual kit for the Mercedes-Benz travelling exhibition through to concepts for permanent exhibitions like the Archaeological Museum in Herne. From corporate architecture in the redesign of the BMW Museum in Munich or the Deutsche(...)
Scenography: Make spaces talk atelier Brückner 2002-2010
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Scenography presents international projects of Atelier Bruckner 2002-2010 and the underlying design processes. From abstract drafts like the conceptual kit for the Mercedes-Benz travelling exhibition through to concepts for permanent exhibitions like the Archaeological Museum in Herne. From corporate architecture in the redesign of the BMW Museum in Munich or the Deutsche Borse in Frankfurt to artistic multimedia installations like the Pavilion experiencing limits at the Swiss national exhibition Expo 02 in Biel through to media architecture like the African Pavilion at the Expo 08 in Zaragoza and and the State Grid Pavilion at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai. With more than 70 employees, Atelier Bruckner is now one of the world's leading ateliers for exhibition design and scenography.
Design Monographs
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Ydessa Hendeles is renowned not only as one of the foremost supporters of contemporary art but also as a curator and collector. The collection she has assembled under the auspices of the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation is one of the most original, prescient, and highly regarded contemporary art collections in the world - if one of the lesser known. Large parts of it are(...)
Partners
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Ydessa Hendeles is renowned not only as one of the foremost supporters of contemporary art but also as a curator and collector. The collection she has assembled under the auspices of the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation is one of the most original, prescient, and highly regarded contemporary art collections in the world - if one of the lesser known. Large parts of it are being shown for the first time in Haus der Kunst in Munich, assembled and arranged by Hendeles; this book has been conceptualized by her in conjunction with the exhibition. In typical Hendeles fashion, "Partners" combines artworks, press photos, anonymous snapshots, and everyday articles. Maurizio Cattelan's HIM, a depiction of Hitler on his knees, plays a key role, as does a large installation of thousands of historical snapshots of teddy bears.
Theory of Photography
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This volume addresses the widespread tendency to discard broken items rather than to refurbish them. Despite the negative ecological effects of overconsumption, overproduction and waste, the habit of replacing rather than repairing goods has persisted and even worsened over recent decades. To counteract this trend, students at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich(...)
Current Exhibitions
January 2023
Upgrade: Making things better
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This volume addresses the widespread tendency to discard broken items rather than to refurbish them. Despite the negative ecological effects of overconsumption, overproduction and waste, the habit of replacing rather than repairing goods has persisted and even worsened over recent decades. To counteract this trend, students at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich and ETH Zurich have been developing imaginative concepts for repairing a wide variety of objects, applying them both manually and by using digital techniques such as 3D printing. Beyond restoration, many projects develop and improve the repaired objects constructively, materially, or even in terms of design, lending them new value. This publication presents a variety of approaches and projects, plus essays by notable personalities from the fields of architecture, preservation, materials science, design, manufacturing and craft.
Current Exhibitions
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Frei Otto, recipient of the prestigious Royal Gold Medal 2005 awarded by the RIBA, is internationally renowned for his innovative tensile and tent-like structures. With his application of modern technology and research into natural forms Frei Otto became a pioneer in the field of lightweight construction and ecological building. This is the first comprehensive survey of(...)
Architecture Monographs
July 2005, Basel
Frei Otto : complete works - lightweight construction, natural design
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Frei Otto, recipient of the prestigious Royal Gold Medal 2005 awarded by the RIBA, is internationally renowned for his innovative tensile and tent-like structures. With his application of modern technology and research into natural forms Frei Otto became a pioneer in the field of lightweight construction and ecological building. This is the first comprehensive survey of his complete works, including such aesthetical masterpieces as the West German Pavilion at the Montreal Exposition in 1967 and the roof of the 1972 Munich Olympic Arena. 12 essays by prominent authors and an extensive catalogue of over 200 buildings and projects from 1951-2004, supplemented by drawings, models and historical documents combine to make this publication the definitive reference work on one of the most influential architects of the 20th century.
Architecture Monographs
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Today, it is hard to imagine the everyday work in an architectural practice without computers. Bits and bytes play an important role in the design and presentation of architecture. This book, which is published in the context of an exhibition of the same name of the Architekturmuseum der TUM at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich (October 14, 2020 to January 10, 2021),(...)
The architecture machine: the role of computers in architecture
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Today, it is hard to imagine the everyday work in an architectural practice without computers. Bits and bytes play an important role in the design and presentation of architecture. This book, which is published in the context of an exhibition of the same name of the Architekturmuseum der TUM at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich (October 14, 2020 to January 10, 2021), considers the development of the digital in architecture. In four chapters, it recounts this intriguing history from its beginnings in the 1950s through to today and presents the computer as a drawing machine, as a design tool, as a medium for telling stories, and as an interactive communication platform. The basic underlying question is simple: Has the computer changed architecture? And if so, by how much?
Digital Architecture
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Sauerbruch Hutton is an award-winning, international agency for architecture, urbanism and design. Its architecture is always in the context of the city and combines functionality with an ecological performance that goes far beyond purely technical aspects. Projects such as the police station in Berlin, the Federal Environment Agency in Dessau or the Sammlung Brandhorst(...)
Sauerbruch Hutton: Detail Special
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Sauerbruch Hutton is an award-winning, international agency for architecture, urbanism and design. Its architecture is always in the context of the city and combines functionality with an ecological performance that goes far beyond purely technical aspects. Projects such as the police station in Berlin, the Federal Environment Agency in Dessau or the Sammlung Brandhorst Museum in Munich demonstrate a convincing use of materiality and colour. Founded in 1989 by Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton, the agency today works on a wide variety of projects worldwide - including housing, museum, educational institution and office high-rise buildings -, impressing with precisely detailed, ecologically conscious, and urbanistically sophisticated designs. This monograph on the Sauerbruch Hutton agency looks behind the scenes, describes processes and comprises one thing in particular: many building details.
Architecture Monographs
Housing is back 01
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Massive changes in household structures and a conscious demand for ecologically built housing have led to radical changes in the housing field. No longer can the classical family automatically be taken as the basis for urban housing concepts. Flexible designs based on ecological principles and an emphasis on outdoor space are now in demand. Thus architects are being(...)
City Guides
April 2006, Wien, New York
Housing is back 01
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Massive changes in household structures and a conscious demand for ecologically built housing have led to radical changes in the housing field. No longer can the classical family automatically be taken as the basis for urban housing concepts. Flexible designs based on ecological principles and an emphasis on outdoor space are now in demand. Thus architects are being called upon, just as it was in the 20s, to deliver new concepts. This volume presents the buildings with their underlying concepts of a number of architects who have done just that. It serves both as a source of inspiration and a reference work for all those involved in housing. The Department of Housing and the Economics of Housing at the Technical University, Munich intends to publish a new volume covering the latest housing projects every two years.
City Guides
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Surrealism was not only an international artistic movement, but also a political one. Its members denounced European colonial policy, opposed fascist regimes, fought for the Spanish Republic, were persecuted, went into exile, and died in war. They wrote poetry, deconstructed the language of a supposedly rational world, worked on paintings, collective drawings, took(...)
Surrealism and anti-fascism: An anthology
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Surrealism was not only an international artistic movement, but also a political one. Its members denounced European colonial policy, opposed fascist regimes, fought for the Spanish Republic, were persecuted, went into exile, and died in war. They wrote poetry, deconstructed the language of a supposedly rational world, worked on paintings, collective drawings, took photographs, and made collages. Surrealism was associated with later emancipatory concerns not as a style, but as a method, and was taken up by the student protests of the 1960s and the Black Liberation Movement. This catalogue is published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Lenbachhaus Munich. In the form of an anthology, it presents pivotal texts and manifestoes of political Surrealism from its beginnings to current references in art and politics. It thus offers a valuable contribution to revising the still narrowly defined Surrealist canon.
Art Theory
Chien fou: Selected writings
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The career of avant-garde photographer and activist Germaine Krull (1897–1985) took her across the world over a turbulent century. After growing up around Europe, Krull studied photography in Munich during the First World War. There she acquired her nickname or alter-ego ‘Chien fou’ (Mad Dog), which provides the chronological and thematic starting point for this volume of(...)
Chien fou: Selected writings
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The career of avant-garde photographer and activist Germaine Krull (1897–1985) took her across the world over a turbulent century. After growing up around Europe, Krull studied photography in Munich during the First World War. There she acquired her nickname or alter-ego ‘Chien fou’ (Mad Dog), which provides the chronological and thematic starting point for this volume of writings drawn from the course of Krull’s extraordinary life, most published for the first time. The selected texts range from artistic manifestos to political essays to memoirs, written between the 1920s and ’80s in a wide variety of places and circumstances. They narrate Krull’s life among the creative communities of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and interwar Paris, her participation in the French Resistance in Brazil and Equatorial Africa, and her later decision to settle in Thailand, then India.
Theory of Photography