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A collaboration between sculptor Olaf Nicolai and photographer Heidi Specker, this artist book poetically captures Nicolai’s intervention during the reconstruction of the Bauhaus Masters’ Houses—once home to Moholy-Nagy, Kandinsky and Klee, among others—in Dessau. Coating the walls with marble dust with varying degrees of granulation to create geometrical patterns,(...)
Olaf Nicolai, Heindi Specker : le pigment de la lumière
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A collaboration between sculptor Olaf Nicolai and photographer Heidi Specker, this artist book poetically captures Nicolai’s intervention during the reconstruction of the Bauhaus Masters’ Houses—once home to Moholy-Nagy, Kandinsky and Klee, among others—in Dessau. Coating the walls with marble dust with varying degrees of granulation to create geometrical patterns, Nicolai produced a subtle relief that responds to the homes changing light conditions. Specker in turn gives the camouflaged surfaces a heightened sense of presence through her photographic renderings that direct the viewer’s gaze to the interplay of contour, surface, space and light. In Nicolai and Specker’s joint publication, an aesthetic intervention in a reconstructed space finds another iteration through the medium of photography in book form. The soft cover and Chinese fold give this elegant artist book and abstract journey through an iconic space a supple, organic feel.OLAF NICOLAI & HEIDI SPECKER
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89 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 38 cm
London : Wainwright & Waring Ltd., [1948?]
Wainwright & Waring Ltd., High Street, Mortlake, London, S.W. ... manufacturers of steel, bronze & aluminium windows, architectural metalwork in wrought iron, bronze & lead, stained & leaded glass / Wainwright & Waring Ltd.
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London : Wainwright & Waring Ltd., [1948?]
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For more than half a century, the influential American artist and activist Nancy Spero has been known for her relentless honesty and her unshakable commitment to political, social and cultural causes--from women's issues to war and other power conflicts. In this volume, she shares strong thoughts and light moments with series editor Hans Ulrist Obrist.
Nancy Spero / Hans Ulrich Obrist : the conversation series 6
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For more than half a century, the influential American artist and activist Nancy Spero has been known for her relentless honesty and her unshakable commitment to political, social and cultural causes--from women's issues to war and other power conflicts. In this volume, she shares strong thoughts and light moments with series editor Hans Ulrist Obrist.
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Westelaken's buildings are compositions in brick, wood, glass, and concrete, a spatial interplay between matter and light in which the principles of arrangement are comparable to those used by composers: rhythm, measure, timbre, dynamics. This book examines six of his buildings. Exhaustively photographed, the overview includes a number of plans and an interview with the architect.
Een symfonie can zes gebouwen : architect Hans Westelaken
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Westelaken's buildings are compositions in brick, wood, glass, and concrete, a spatial interplay between matter and light in which the principles of arrangement are comparable to those used by composers: rhythm, measure, timbre, dynamics. This book examines six of his buildings. Exhaustively photographed, the overview includes a number of plans and an interview with the architect.
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James Marston Fitch
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Founder of the nation's first graduate program in historic preservation, at Columbia University, architect James Marston Fitch was a prolific critic, historian, preservationist, environmentalist, and philosopher. In this, the first anthology of his writings—some never before published—Fitch's ideas and observations on a range of subjects are brought to light in a single,(...)
James Marston Fitch
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Founder of the nation's first graduate program in historic preservation, at Columbia University, architect James Marston Fitch was a prolific critic, historian, preservationist, environmentalist, and philosopher. In this, the first anthology of his writings—some never before published—Fitch's ideas and observations on a range of subjects are brought to light in a single, invaluable volume. 30 illustrations.
Architectural Theory
The modern house
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Established in 2005, The Modern House is a highly lauded estate agency specialising in the sale of Britains's most iconic residential architecture. Based around the company's extraordinary image archive, the eponymous book presents previously unseen interiors and restorations, illuminating the convergent characteristics of functionalism, truth to materials, flowing space(...)
The modern house
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Established in 2005, The Modern House is a highly lauded estate agency specialising in the sale of Britains's most iconic residential architecture. Based around the company's extraordinary image archive, the eponymous book presents previously unseen interiors and restorations, illuminating the convergent characteristics of functionalism, truth to materials, flowing space and natural light within the modern British home.
Residential Architecture
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In collaboration with Sigur Rós musician Jónsi, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson conceived a complex installation for his site-specific exhibition at the Marciano Art Foundation. Using projected light and the existing architecture of the museum, he created a dynamic shadow play referencing both Los Angeles' history of filmmaking and the gallery's former function as a theater.
Olafur Eliasson: reality projector
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In collaboration with Sigur Rós musician Jónsi, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson conceived a complex installation for his site-specific exhibition at the Marciano Art Foundation. Using projected light and the existing architecture of the museum, he created a dynamic shadow play referencing both Los Angeles' history of filmmaking and the gallery's former function as a theater.
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New Nordic houses
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In a climate with dramatic shifts in temperature and light, the homes of Nordic countries respond to ever-changing environments with an intrinsic sense of warmth. Nordic architects today are as much informed by vernacular traditions and natural materials as their forebears, but the most recent generation of practitioners reflects a new appetite for spatial exploration and(...)
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New Nordic houses
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In a climate with dramatic shifts in temperature and light, the homes of Nordic countries respond to ever-changing environments with an intrinsic sense of warmth. Nordic architects today are as much informed by vernacular traditions and natural materials as their forebears, but the most recent generation of practitioners reflects a new appetite for spatial exploration and changing lifestyles.
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First published over sixty years ago, Hugh Morrison's book was the definitive biography of the now-famous architect and is still the best introduction to his work. This edition includes an authoritative revision of the chronological list of buildings by Timothy J. Samuelson, with corrections of the data in light of six decades of research, by Timothy J. Samuelson.
Louis Sullivan : prophet of modern architecture
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First published over sixty years ago, Hugh Morrison's book was the definitive biography of the now-famous architect and is still the best introduction to his work. This edition includes an authoritative revision of the chronological list of buildings by Timothy J. Samuelson, with corrections of the data in light of six decades of research, by Timothy J. Samuelson.
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February 1998, New York
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Elin Hansdottir: path
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Elín Hansdóttir's installation “Path” consists of a narrow tunnel that zigzags through a gallery or a museum. Light enters through vertical and horizontal slits that resemble cracks in the structure; sound effects further add to the disorientation. This volume examines the work, and contains an introduction by Rebecca Solnit, author of Wanderlust and A Field Guide to Getting Lost.
Elin Hansdottir: path
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Elín Hansdóttir's installation “Path” consists of a narrow tunnel that zigzags through a gallery or a museum. Light enters through vertical and horizontal slits that resemble cracks in the structure; sound effects further add to the disorientation. This volume examines the work, and contains an introduction by Rebecca Solnit, author of Wanderlust and A Field Guide to Getting Lost.
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