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This volume contains a collection of the key essays on and by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), one of the most influential and prolific architects of the 20th century. The individual essays focus on specific aspects of Wright's work, analyzing buildings and projects in order to explain the general principles of Wright's much-debated design methods. Included are previously(...)
Architecture Monographs
October 2005, London, New York
On and by Frank Lloyd Wright : a primer of architectural principles
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This volume contains a collection of the key essays on and by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), one of the most influential and prolific architects of the 20th century. The individual essays focus on specific aspects of Wright's work, analyzing buildings and projects in order to explain the general principles of Wright's much-debated design methods. Included are previously published contributions from well-known historians and Wright scholars such as Kenneth Frampton, Colin Rowe and Gwendolyn Wright, as well as new commentary from the book`s editor. This volume brings together in one place decades of important scholarship on Wright and his architectural principles, making it an essential reader for students of architecture and enthusiasts of Wright's work.
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Future systems
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This book presents a selection of work from the past twenty-five years - much of it previously unpublished. It celebrates the accomplishments for which Future Systems are recognized today, as well as looking at the more recent proposals and concepts that continue their forward-looking philosophy. Organized according to theme, this book presents well-known works in a(...)
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This book presents a selection of work from the past twenty-five years - much of it previously unpublished. It celebrates the accomplishments for which Future Systems are recognized today, as well as looking at the more recent proposals and concepts that continue their forward-looking philosophy. Organized according to theme, this book presents well-known works in a new light, permitting a new appreciation of Future Systems' oeuvre today.
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June 2006, London
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Modern Japanese House
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"Modern Japanese house" is an overview of recent domestic design trends in Japan and features an array of projects from a variety of architects, both known and new to the international architecture scene. The projects are divided into five chapters - Tiny houses, Inside/ outside, Multi generation houses, Work/play, and Vacation houses - that reflect the issues particular(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
October 2005, London / New York
Modern Japanese House
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"Modern Japanese house" is an overview of recent domestic design trends in Japan and features an array of projects from a variety of architects, both known and new to the international architecture scene. The projects are divided into five chapters - Tiny houses, Inside/ outside, Multi generation houses, Work/play, and Vacation houses - that reflect the issues particular to residential design in Japan. Architects featured include Kazuyo Sejima, Jun Aoki, Shigeru Ban, Hitoshi Abe and Shuhei Endo, as well as lesser known practitioners such as Nobuaki Furuya and Hiroshii Nakao, among others.
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October 2005, London / New York
Contemporary Asian Architecture
Joel Meyerowitz
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Joel Meyerowitz is most famous for pioneering the use of colour at a time when it was generally held that so-called ‘artistic’ photography could only be done in black and white. He is closely associated with Cape Cod, where he makes many of his still, contemplative images. He is also well known for his architectural photographs of The Arch in St. Louis. Yet he started(...)
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January 1900, London / New York
Joel Meyerowitz
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Joel Meyerowitz is most famous for pioneering the use of colour at a time when it was generally held that so-called ‘artistic’ photography could only be done in black and white. He is closely associated with Cape Cod, where he makes many of his still, contemplative images. He is also well known for his architectural photographs of The Arch in St. Louis. Yet he started off in the 1960s as a street photographer, following in the tradition of Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson. He spent a number of years taking pictures of the eventful life on New York’s streets. His sense of humour really comes through in his images and the absurdities he captures often make you laugh out loud. There are many of Meyerowitz’s own personal anecdotes in the commentaries.
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Abelardo Morell
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Born in Havana, Abelardo Morell emigrated to the United States in 1962, where he took his first photography course after winning a scholarship to Bowdoin College - a small liberal arts college in Maine. There, Morell experimented with a variety of photographic techniques to create surreal effects that reflected his feelings of alienation as a Cuban living abroad. He(...)
Photography monographs
September 2005, London, New York
Abelardo Morell
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Born in Havana, Abelardo Morell emigrated to the United States in 1962, where he took his first photography course after winning a scholarship to Bowdoin College - a small liberal arts college in Maine. There, Morell experimented with a variety of photographic techniques to create surreal effects that reflected his feelings of alienation as a Cuban living abroad. He proceeded to complete the graduate programme at Yale University, where he worked within the framework of Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand’s tradition of black-and-white street photography. In 1983, he began teaching at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, where he remains a professor. In 1986, Morell began a family and his fascination with his son engaged a new interest in this domestic environment as a subject. Morell began exploring the world from a child’s perspective – approaching mundane household objects in a new way that challenges the viewer’s perception of reality and how we see it. Morell transforms everyday objects by distorting angles and using extreme close-ups, and by exploiting perspectives that confuse and jar with our expectations. For instance, viewed from below a stack of toys blocks tower over the viewer; and a close-up of liquid pouring from a jar seems ominous and dramatic rather than an everyday occurrence. Similarly, Morell continued to transform the familiar into the surprising in his series of photographs of books, maps, American money and, more recently, a series that illustrates a new edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This preoccupation with reality and illusion is most clearly realised in Morell’s series of camera obscura images. He takes an ordinary room and tapes black plastic over the windows, leaving only a 3/8" hole for the light. After setting up a large-format camera in the room and pointing it at the opposite wall, Morell leaves - a single exposure takes 8 hours. In the resulting images a scene of Brooklyn floats upside-down along the walls of his son’s bedroom; global landmarks like the Uffizi and the Eiffel Tower are projected across hotel rooms. In this, Morell’s best known and most ambitious series, the distinction between the outside and the domestic world is merged and his preoccupation with the mechanics of human vision and the principles of photography is illuminated.
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Gabriele Basilico
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An introduction to the work of Gabriele Basilico (b.1944), one of the most important European landscape photographers of our time. His work captures the city in its quiet, empty moments, almost as if some disaster had driven away the population – the buildings remain lasting testaments to the society that created them. Basilico has extensively chronicled the lesser-known(...)
Gabriele Basilico
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An introduction to the work of Gabriele Basilico (b.1944), one of the most important European landscape photographers of our time. His work captures the city in its quiet, empty moments, almost as if some disaster had driven away the population – the buildings remain lasting testaments to the society that created them. Basilico has extensively chronicled the lesser-known parts of his own native country as well as travelling widely throughout Northern Europe, bringing his Italian sensibility and melding it with the peculiarities of the Northern landscape.
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Richard Long : mirage
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Richard Long is one of the most compelling and original of contemporary artists. In creating art based on the activity of walking, he has pioneered new ways of thinking about the relationship between the artist and his environment. In the range of his walks and in the scope of his international exhibitions, Richard Long has become an artist of the world, transcending(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
January 1900, London
Richard Long : mirage
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Richard Long is one of the most compelling and original of contemporary artists. In creating art based on the activity of walking, he has pioneered new ways of thinking about the relationship between the artist and his environment. In the range of his walks and in the scope of his international exhibitions, Richard Long has become an artist of the world, transcending the milieu of the 1960s avant-garde in which he first rose to prominence. Though his individual works are simple, cumulatively they form a body of work that is rich and complex, with a universal character. As Long himself says, ‘…the different forms of my work represent freedom and richness – it’s not possible to say “everything” in one way.’ In this book, Long presents chosen works from some thirty years of his response to landscapes both near and far, and a selection of some of his recent exhibitions.
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January 1900, London
Contemporary Art Monographs
Isa Genzken
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Interview – in her discussion with Diedrich Diedrichsen the artist considers her relationship to the many sources behind her work : minimal sculpture, modernist architecture, conceptual art, and other multi-media artists` practices, such as Bruce Nauman’s. Survey – Alex Farquharson examines the principal themes in Genzken’s work since her now-legendary first exhibition in(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
October 2005, London
Isa Genzken
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Interview – in her discussion with Diedrich Diedrichsen the artist considers her relationship to the many sources behind her work : minimal sculpture, modernist architecture, conceptual art, and other multi-media artists` practices, such as Bruce Nauman’s. Survey – Alex Farquharson examines the principal themes in Genzken’s work since her now-legendary first exhibition in Berlin whilst still a student of Gerhard Richter. Focus – Sabine Breitwieser looks at Genzken’s little known ‘Hi-Fi’ series of photographic works, which centre on magazine advertisements for stereo equipment. Artist’s choice – "The bad glazier" by Charles Baudelaire (1869). Artist’s writings – notes from a 1973 exercise based on instructions by Bruce Nauman ; an previously unpublishd 1996 film script ; a 2003 interview with Wolfgang Tillmans ; and two new artist`s statements. Chronology and bibliography.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Reading like a who’s who of the world’s most important players in contemporary art, "Press play" makes a fascinating stand-alone introduction to the current art scene and those associated with it. Comprising 50 personal encounters with the world’s most significant contemporary artists, interviewed by 50 of today’s key art thinkers, it is a survey of contemporary art in(...)
Press play : contemporary artists in conversation
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Reading like a who’s who of the world’s most important players in contemporary art, "Press play" makes a fascinating stand-alone introduction to the current art scene and those associated with it. Comprising 50 personal encounters with the world’s most significant contemporary artists, interviewed by 50 of today’s key art thinkers, it is a survey of contemporary art in the artists’ own words. It includes established artists like Louise Bourgeois and Alex Katz, midcareer masters Richard Prince and Raymond Pettibon and the most exciting artists of the current generation.
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Maisons de Russie
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Le témoignage que les propriétaires des demeures présentées livrent ici représente un fait tout à fait exceptionnel. Il s'agit en effet du premier livre consacré aux maisons de Russie, car jusqu'à présent, les difficultés d'obtenir les autorisations de photographier, de trouver des intérieurs intéressants et d'investir dans de longs voyages n'avaient pas permis de(...)
History until 1900
October 2005, Paris
Maisons de Russie
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Le témoignage que les propriétaires des demeures présentées livrent ici représente un fait tout à fait exceptionnel. Il s'agit en effet du premier livre consacré aux maisons de Russie, car jusqu'à présent, les difficultés d'obtenir les autorisations de photographier, de trouver des intérieurs intéressants et d'investir dans de longs voyages n'avaient pas permis de découvrir ces lieux. Grâce à l'auteur, Ella Krasner, l'éditeur a ainsi eu accès à onze demeures qui n'avaient encore jamais ouvert leurs portes et a pu se faire raconter l'histoire de chacune. Il livre ici le fruit de deux ans et demi d'un travail particulièrement représentatif de la richesse de l'architecture russe et de ses intérieurs. Attirée par le style architectural de l'Occident mais souhaitant garder son originalité foncière, la Russie a ainsi su s'inspirer de ses voisins tout en demeurant fidèle à ses traditions.
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