Celebration at persepolis
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In 1971, the Shah of Iran held a week-long party among the ruins of Persepolis, leaving the temporary architecture behind when the celebration was done. For Art Basel 2008, "anthropologist of the avant-garde" Michael Stevenson reconstructed one of the guest tents, now a ruin itself, at scale. That project is expanded upon here.
Celebration at persepolis
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In 1971, the Shah of Iran held a week-long party among the ruins of Persepolis, leaving the temporary architecture behind when the celebration was done. For Art Basel 2008, "anthropologist of the avant-garde" Michael Stevenson reconstructed one of the guest tents, now a ruin itself, at scale. That project is expanded upon here.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Since their 2007 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Romanian twins Gert and Uwe Tobias have become well known for their large-scale woodcuts featuring motifs from Eastern European folklore.
Contemporary Art Monographs
August 2010
Gert & Uwe Tobias: drawings and collages
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Since their 2007 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Romanian twins Gert and Uwe Tobias have become well known for their large-scale woodcuts featuring motifs from Eastern European folklore.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Cornelia Parker
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This monograph traces the development of Cornelia Parker's art from the late 1970s to the present day. Organized chronologically, the book covers the small-scale sculptures she made while still a student; her work in lead, plaster, silver, and gold; drawings; photographs; video pieces; and installations.
Cornelia Parker
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This monograph traces the development of Cornelia Parker's art from the late 1970s to the present day. Organized chronologically, the book covers the small-scale sculptures she made while still a student; her work in lead, plaster, silver, and gold; drawings; photographs; video pieces; and installations.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This book documents installations of Haus— a 1:15 scale representation of a modern commercial building—by celebrated Swiss duo Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946–2012). These include the 2016 recreation of the 1987 Skulptur Projekte Münster for the Guggenheim Museum and its permanent installation at Offenen Rennbahn in Zürich.
Peter Fischli. David Weiss: Haus
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This book documents installations of Haus— a 1:15 scale representation of a modern commercial building—by celebrated Swiss duo Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946–2012). These include the 2016 recreation of the 1987 Skulptur Projekte Münster for the Guggenheim Museum and its permanent installation at Offenen Rennbahn in Zürich.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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In Zen Landscapes, Allen S. Weiss takes readers on a journey through exquisite sites, explaining how Japanese gardens must be approached according to the play of scale, surroundings, and seasons, as well as in relation to other arts — revealing them as living landscapes rather than abstract designs.
Zen landscapes : perspectives on Japanese gardens and ceramics
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In Zen Landscapes, Allen S. Weiss takes readers on a journey through exquisite sites, explaining how Japanese gardens must be approached according to the play of scale, surroundings, and seasons, as well as in relation to other arts — revealing them as living landscapes rather than abstract designs.
Gardens
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"Architecture Can!" is a journey through the works and projects of the groundbreaking architecture firm Hollwich Kushner, based in New York. Partners Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner design projects at every scale: intimate, awe-inspiring, and everything inbetween; from residences to universities, museums, and urban plans.
Architecture can! Hollwich Kushner 2008-2018
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"Architecture Can!" is a journey through the works and projects of the groundbreaking architecture firm Hollwich Kushner, based in New York. Partners Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner design projects at every scale: intimate, awe-inspiring, and everything inbetween; from residences to universities, museums, and urban plans.
Architecture Monographs
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"This is a combination of big scale drawings (180 x 200 cm) and the One year Drawings, showing the process of reconstructing one image amongst all those that I had registered during the day. In both cases I’m interested in the creation of a frail universe based on the tensions between the anxiety of existential discomfort and it’s comical response evoked by human(...)
Katerina Christidi: c'est pas angoissant
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"This is a combination of big scale drawings (180 x 200 cm) and the One year Drawings, showing the process of reconstructing one image amongst all those that I had registered during the day. In both cases I’m interested in the creation of a frail universe based on the tensions between the anxiety of existential discomfort and it’s comical response evoked by human figures." Katerina Christidi
Graphic Design and Typography
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The first issue is in store ! This issue is about Brussels based NoAarchitecten, who have been able to create a form profile for themselves from the very beginning, with both notable small buildings and several large-scale public buildings including the Petrol electricity cabin in Antwerp and the spatial metamorphosis of Menen town hall.
North North West, issue 1: noArchitecten
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The first issue is in store ! This issue is about Brussels based NoAarchitecten, who have been able to create a form profile for themselves from the very beginning, with both notable small buildings and several large-scale public buildings including the Petrol electricity cabin in Antwerp and the spatial metamorphosis of Menen town hall.
Magazines
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The three encased volumes, entitled ''Under Construction 2011, 2013, 2015'', each contain four buildings under construction. The works are presented in texts, drawings, sketches, full-scale prototypes and in snaps shots of material samples and of building sites as well as in the precise photography of London-based photographer Ioana Marinescu. Each volume includes essays(...)
Johan Celsing Arkitektkontor : under construction, box set 3 volumes
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The three encased volumes, entitled ''Under Construction 2011, 2013, 2015'', each contain four buildings under construction. The works are presented in texts, drawings, sketches, full-scale prototypes and in snaps shots of material samples and of building sites as well as in the precise photography of London-based photographer Ioana Marinescu. Each volume includes essays by Celsing discussing the discipline of architecture and topics related to the works.
Architecture Monographs
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Susan Dobson creates photographs, sometimes edited for effect, alongside video projection and large scale prints to glamorize and identify the quest for individuality suburbanites undertake in order to adorn their homes. Concepts of sameness contrasted with the quest for distinctiveness permeate her work, but the sense of the monotonous, repetitive design of suburbia is(...)
Susan Dobson : shifting tenses
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Susan Dobson creates photographs, sometimes edited for effect, alongside video projection and large scale prints to glamorize and identify the quest for individuality suburbanites undertake in order to adorn their homes. Concepts of sameness contrasted with the quest for distinctiveness permeate her work, but the sense of the monotonous, repetitive design of suburbia is subtly subverted and elevated.
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