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Yoshio Taniguchi was selected from among an elite field of international architects to design The Museum of Modern Art's new building - his first commission outside his native Japan. This volume, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name highlights the project and eight others. Designed by Massimo Vignelli, the book features an essay by Terence Riley, The Philip(...)
Yoshio Taniguchi : nine museums
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Yoshio Taniguchi was selected from among an elite field of international architects to design The Museum of Modern Art's new building - his first commission outside his native Japan. This volume, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name highlights the project and eight others. Designed by Massimo Vignelli, the book features an essay by Terence Riley, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, that examines the many overlapping contexts that inform Taniguchi's approach to architecture and the art of building, with an emphasis on The Museum of Modern Art's new building.
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November 2004, New York
Architecture Monographs
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In 1996 Mateja Vehovar and Stefan Jauslin formed their own architectural office in Zurich after studying at Columbia University in New York and the ETH in Zurich respectively. Clearly marked by an interdisciplinary approach, their work revolves around landscape architecture, exhibition design, room installations, as well as architectural projects. In their work, space is(...)
Architecture Monographs
May 2003, Basel
Emotional landscapes : the architecture of Mateja Vehovar and Stefan Jauslin
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In 1996 Mateja Vehovar and Stefan Jauslin formed their own architectural office in Zurich after studying at Columbia University in New York and the ETH in Zurich respectively. Clearly marked by an interdisciplinary approach, their work revolves around landscape architecture, exhibition design, room installations, as well as architectural projects. In their work, space is used as a medium to bring about specific experiences and feelings in its users. In 1999, Vehovar & Jauslin were awarded the Swiss Federal Prize for art and this publication documents 16 selected works, situating them in the context of experimental design.
Architecture Monographs
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The first monograph of the collected works of architect Tezzo Nishizawa introduces 30 projects across three typologies: art exhibitions, museums, and residences. The publication begins with a series of photographs that illustrate the unique perspective and philosophy underlying and linking these works. Following that are detailed plans and commentaries on each project,(...)
Tezzo Nishizawa: Chance favors the prepared mind
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The first monograph of the collected works of architect Tezzo Nishizawa introduces 30 projects across three typologies: art exhibitions, museums, and residences. The publication begins with a series of photographs that illustrate the unique perspective and philosophy underlying and linking these works. Following that are detailed plans and commentaries on each project, where the images and drawings serve to reveal the architect’s methodology and thought. A postscript by Nishizawa touches on the relationship between exhibition layouts and architectural design, in which the architect also elaborates on the reasons for his particular interest in collaborative design.
Architecture Monographs
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Catalogue published for the exhibition (october 2009-february 2010) organised by the international Centre for urbanism, architecture and landscape, in partnership with Espace architecture La Cambre Horta. This book provides the reader with the opportunity to explore avant-garde Chinese architecture, design and urban planning via five separate themes: living architecture,(...)
Heart-made, the cutting edge of chinese contemporary architecture
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Catalogue published for the exhibition (october 2009-february 2010) organised by the international Centre for urbanism, architecture and landscape, in partnership with Espace architecture La Cambre Horta. This book provides the reader with the opportunity to explore avant-garde Chinese architecture, design and urban planning via five separate themes: living architecture, digital architecture, video architecture, installation art and sound art. Influenced in large part by Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, contemporary Chinese architects and artists are pioneers in architecture and design in China, actively engaging with the fast-changing society that surrounds them.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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The eponymous catalogue for an exhibition by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler in collaboration with systems engineer Raffaello D'Andrea, shown at the Frac Centre in Orléans. The book presents a fascinating exploration of their perspectives and multidisciplinary interests, ranging from computational design and robots to material innovation, plus research on architecture,(...)
Gramazio & Kohler and D'Andrea: Flight assembled architecture
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The eponymous catalogue for an exhibition by Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler in collaboration with systems engineer Raffaello D'Andrea, shown at the Frac Centre in Orléans. The book presents a fascinating exploration of their perspectives and multidisciplinary interests, ranging from computational design and robots to material innovation, plus research on architecture, system design and autonomous robotic technologies. Through detailed diagrams and texts, it gives insight into the exhibitions realisation in which an architectural installation was constructed by flying robots and reveals radical new ways of both thinking about and materialising architecture.
Architecture Monographs
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This is the first monograph on the work of Dutch industrial and interior designer Rob Parry. Parry is best known in the Netherlands for his innovative design, together with Emile Truijens, for the red and grey mailbox for the PTT. This piece of industrial design was part of the nation’s streetscape from 1960 until the 1990s. As a prolific and versatile designer, Parry(...)
Rob Parry
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This is the first monograph on the work of Dutch industrial and interior designer Rob Parry. Parry is best known in the Netherlands for his innovative design, together with Emile Truijens, for the red and grey mailbox for the PTT. This piece of industrial design was part of the nation’s streetscape from 1960 until the 1990s. As a prolific and versatile designer, Parry worked on a large number of varied projects: furniture, shop interiors, houses, offices, and a large number of exhibitions and exhibition stands for trade fairs.
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June 2015
Architecture Monographs
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Catalogue covering Mark Manders' double solo show "Isolated rooms" at The Art Institute of Chicago and The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago (9.13.2003 -1.4.2004). The book (184 pp.) is accompanied by a exhibition checklist and a 56 pp. reference book. Compilation and design : Roger Willems and Mark Manders. Texts by : James Cuno and Susanne Ghez, James(...)
Mark Manders : isolated rooms
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Catalogue covering Mark Manders' double solo show "Isolated rooms" at The Art Institute of Chicago and The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago (9.13.2003 -1.4.2004). The book (184 pp.) is accompanied by a exhibition checklist and a 56 pp. reference book. Compilation and design : Roger Willems and Mark Manders. Texts by : James Cuno and Susanne Ghez, James Rondeau, Dieter Roelstraete, Mark Manders and Marije Langelaar.
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First office: nine essays
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Organized by Los Angeles-based designer Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular and the Graham Foundation,Treatise presents a collection of individually authored books by fourteen emerging design offices that considers the architectural treatise as a site for theoretical inquiry, experimentation, and debate. This publication project and accompanying exhibition provide a dynamic(...)
First office: nine essays
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Organized by Los Angeles-based designer Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular and the Graham Foundation,Treatise presents a collection of individually authored books by fourteen emerging design offices that considers the architectural treatise as a site for theoretical inquiry, experimentation, and debate. This publication project and accompanying exhibition provide a dynamic space for these uncompromising designers to re-write the boundaries of conceptual architecture.
Architectural Theory
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Organized by Los Angeles-based designer Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular and the Graham Foundation,Treatise presents a collection of individually authored books by fourteen emerging design offices that considers the architectural treatise as a site for theoretical inquiry, experimentation, and debate. This publication project and accompanying exhibition provide a dynamic(...)
Bureau spectacular: the politics of flatness
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Organized by Los Angeles-based designer Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular and the Graham Foundation,Treatise presents a collection of individually authored books by fourteen emerging design offices that considers the architectural treatise as a site for theoretical inquiry, experimentation, and debate. This publication project and accompanying exhibition provide a dynamic space for these uncompromising designers to re-write the boundaries of conceptual architecture.
Architectural Theory
SOFTlab: identity crisis
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Organized by Los Angeles-based designer Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular and the Graham Foundation,Treatise presents a collection of individually authored books by fourteen emerging design offices that considers the architectural treatise as a site for theoretical inquiry, experimentation, and debate. This publication project and accompanying exhibition provide a dynamic(...)
SOFTlab: identity crisis
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Organized by Los Angeles-based designer Jimenez Lai of Bureau Spectacular and the Graham Foundation,Treatise presents a collection of individually authored books by fourteen emerging design offices that considers the architectural treatise as a site for theoretical inquiry, experimentation, and debate. This publication project and accompanying exhibition provide a dynamic space for these uncompromising designers to re-write the boundaries of conceptual architecture.
Architectural Theory