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Renaissance Society 2015
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Renaissance Society 2015
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This book recounts the history of the studio and residential building at Wuhrstrasse 8/10 in Zurich, illustrated with archival plans and documents as well as new and historic photographs. It also examines the political and social dimension of the Wuhrstrasse model and its international impact. Further essays explore how the lives and works of the resident artists are(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
April 2022
Working and living: History and presence of Studio House Wuhrstrasse 8/10
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This book recounts the history of the studio and residential building at Wuhrstrasse 8/10 in Zurich, illustrated with archival plans and documents as well as new and historic photographs. It also examines the political and social dimension of the Wuhrstrasse model and its international impact. Further essays explore how the lives and works of the resident artists are interwoven with contemporary events and address the artist studio as both an idealized myth and as a real place of work. In inserts created especially for the book, eleven Zurich-based artists, all not members of the cooperative themselves, respond to the exemplary model that is the “Atelierhaus.”
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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They are places we fear to tread, monuments to the principles of our forebears, awe-inspiring towers of achievement : public institutions that sustain and support our lives are all around us. Scott Fortino investigates these enduring pillars of public life in "Institutional", a striking visual essay that documents the diverse architectural structures that house the(...)
Photography monographs
September 2005, Santa Fe
Institutional : photographs of jails, schools, and other Chicago buildings
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They are places we fear to tread, monuments to the principles of our forebears, awe-inspiring towers of achievement : public institutions that sustain and support our lives are all around us. Scott Fortino investigates these enduring pillars of public life in "Institutional", a striking visual essay that documents the diverse architectural structures that house the foundations of civic life in the city of Chicago. From schools to churches to prisons, Fortino transforms these worn, familiar edifices into compelling symbols of long-lost ideals and communitarian spirit. Fortino coaxes out the subtle warmth and depths of these often overwhelming and pitiless public spaces in his photographs, as his camera reveals the hidden characters of both high-profile works by renowned designers such as Rem Koolhaas, Helmut Jahn, and Mies van der Rohe as well as the stolid structures designed by long-forgotten architects. Light, colour, and composition work together in Fortino's images to produce provocative new perspectives on the interiors of public buildings, revealing how their cultural and social roles as places of worship, education, punishment, or entertainment cast long and complex shadows over our lives. Fortino challenges us in "Institutional" to rethink our view of the public spaces we pass through every day by offering an original and fascinating photographic study of the settings in which the important events of human life unfold.
Photography monographs
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Two hundred and fifty Leisurama houses were built at Culloden Shores in Montauk, Long Island. Most of the homes have since been converted to year -round occupancy, and with very few exceptions, all have been enlarged and redecorated, while the once barren shore is now forested. In a sweet paradox, these once very affordable homes - in the 1960s, for as little as $590 down(...)
Residential Architecture
May 2008, New York
Leisurama now: the beach house for everyone. 1964 -
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Two hundred and fifty Leisurama houses were built at Culloden Shores in Montauk, Long Island. Most of the homes have since been converted to year -round occupancy, and with very few exceptions, all have been enlarged and redecorated, while the once barren shore is now forested. In a sweet paradox, these once very affordable homes - in the 1960s, for as little as $590 down and $73 a month, you could walk into Macy's and leave with a fully furnished house - that were looked down upon by more well-to-do neighbors are now desirable and expensive, even "collectable." Their rich legacy lives on in the affordable pages of Leisurama. The different houses are shown each 2 on a page, followed by a map of their location on the beach, as well as the detailed presentation of their interior design in pictures and words, and original documents. Photo Index, Notes on Plates, Bibliographical notes
Residential Architecture
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After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The Cultural Revolution's goal was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalistic elements he claimed were threatening genuine(...)
The cultural revolution: A people's history, 1962-1976
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After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging Mao Zedong launched an ambitious scheme to shore up his reputation and eliminate those he viewed as a threat to his legacy. The Cultural Revolution's goal was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalistic elements he claimed were threatening genuine communist ideology. Young students formed the Red Guards, vowing to defend the Chairman to the death, but soon rival factions started fighting each other in the streets with semiautomatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. As the country descended into chaos, the military intervened, turning China into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. ''The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962–1976'' draws for the first time on hundreds of previously classified party documents, from secret police reports to unexpurgated versions of leadership speeches. After the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary people used the political chaos to resurrect the market and hollow out the party's ideology. By showing how economic reform from below was an unintended consequence of a decade of violent purges and entrenched fear, T''he Cultural Revolution casts'' China's most tumultuous era in a wholly new light.
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Gaby Steiner: Public home
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The work of Swiss photo, video and installation artist Gaby Steiner focuses on victims of global commodification. "Public Home" documents the life of former architect Jerzy Sulek, whose house was demolished by the city and who now lives without shelter on his land in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Gaby Steiner: Public home
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The work of Swiss photo, video and installation artist Gaby Steiner focuses on victims of global commodification. "Public Home" documents the life of former architect Jerzy Sulek, whose house was demolished by the city and who now lives without shelter on his land in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Photography monographs
Lange Liste
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This unique book documents the daily lives of the Lange family during the final days of East and West Germany shortly before reunification. It uses the meticulously kept account books to create a story of childhood and youth in the form of a housekeeping record. The painstakingly calculating mother who had to keep track of her limited funds unknowingly produced the raw(...)
Lange Liste
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This unique book documents the daily lives of the Lange family during the final days of East and West Germany shortly before reunification. It uses the meticulously kept account books to create a story of childhood and youth in the form of a housekeeping record. The painstakingly calculating mother who had to keep track of her limited funds unknowingly produced the raw material for experimental literature.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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This book documents the work and lives of two 20th-century architects, Lina Bo Bardi and Albert Frey, whose shared beliefs anticipated today’s architectural principles of integration among humans, earth, and the built environment. This book examines the synergy in the visionary building and design of these two key midcentury architects, and brings together their(...)
Albert Frey and Lina Bo Bardi: A search for living architecture
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This book documents the work and lives of two 20th-century architects, Lina Bo Bardi and Albert Frey, whose shared beliefs anticipated today’s architectural principles of integration among humans, earth, and the built environment. This book examines the synergy in the visionary building and design of these two key midcentury architects, and brings together their innovative approaches to four iconic houses, which also found their expression in their furniture, public buildings, and urban design.
Architecture Monographs
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Based on Sedá's work for Documenta 12, this book documents a complex and long-term project realized in Nova Lisen, Brno, Czech Republic, where the artist lives. In the guise of a kind of "mail art," Sedá put in contact the inhabitants of a housing project undergoing renovation, breaking down the conventions of addressing an audience in the art context, as well as(...)
For every dog a different master
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Based on Sedá's work for Documenta 12, this book documents a complex and long-term project realized in Nova Lisen, Brno, Czech Republic, where the artist lives. In the guise of a kind of "mail art," Sedá put in contact the inhabitants of a housing project undergoing renovation, breaking down the conventions of addressing an audience in the art context, as well as stimulating exchanges and relations between the involuntarily participants. Fifth volume of the "Tranzit" series edited by Vít Havránek and focusing on Central and Eastern European artists. Text in English /Czech
Contemporary Art Monographs