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This volume is devoted to the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona designed by American architect Richard Meier. Offering detailed information on every aspect of the project, this publication features a full-page photographic essay by renowned Spanish photographer Aleix Bagué, as well as an in-depth interview with Meier.
Richard Meier: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA
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This volume is devoted to the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona designed by American architect Richard Meier. Offering detailed information on every aspect of the project, this publication features a full-page photographic essay by renowned Spanish photographer Aleix Bagué, as well as an in-depth interview with Meier.
Architecture Monographs
Low cost design, vol. 1
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This publication is based on the principle that the most innovative design ideas are probably not the ones passing through patent offices. Functioning as a visual dictionary of everyday ingenuity and self-sufficiency, and spanning Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, it catalogues inspiring examples of the creative repurposing of detritus, and of overlooked land, by(...)
Low cost design, vol. 1
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This publication is based on the principle that the most innovative design ideas are probably not the ones passing through patent offices. Functioning as a visual dictionary of everyday ingenuity and self-sufficiency, and spanning Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, it catalogues inspiring examples of the creative repurposing of detritus, and of overlooked land, by ordinary people — whether for reasons of subsistence, politics or sheer artistry. Thus, a flowerpot and a section of a fence become an improvised barbeque; a tree stump on a sidewalk is carved into a makeshift one-seater. The innovations are classified as either "objects" or "actions," demonstrating a decentralized but palpable European movement conscious of avoiding waste. The book features an essay by the artist and designer Daniele Pario Perra, who in 2001 began the Design on the Cheap database.
Industrial Design
Kirstine Roepstorff
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Kirstine Roepstorff uses materials such as felt, fabric, sequins and glass beads for her collages, in a process she terms "appropriarranging." This publication features a series of large-scale collages created for an exhibition at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, as well as a wunderkammer curated by the Danish artist, containing various artifacts and curiosities.
Contemporary Art Monographs
March 2011
Kirstine Roepstorff
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Kirstine Roepstorff uses materials such as felt, fabric, sequins and glass beads for her collages, in a process she terms "appropriarranging." This publication features a series of large-scale collages created for an exhibition at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, as well as a wunderkammer curated by the Danish artist, containing various artifacts and curiosities.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Thorsten Passfeld constructs wooden cabins and interiors that both exploit and refute the comforts of dwelling. As extensions of the domestic idiom, he also constructs colorful wooden assemblages that resemble demented cuckoo clocks or neo-folk art. It's Me Again presents Passfeld's recent wall objects and his temporary wooden houses.
Thorsten Passfeld: It's me again
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Thorsten Passfeld constructs wooden cabins and interiors that both exploit and refute the comforts of dwelling. As extensions of the domestic idiom, he also constructs colorful wooden assemblages that resemble demented cuckoo clocks or neo-folk art. It's Me Again presents Passfeld's recent wall objects and his temporary wooden houses.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle's Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With is an installation consisting of a 25 x 25-foot glass house based on Mies van der Rohe's (unbuilt) 1951 House With Four Columns. This house then becomes the stage for a narrative based on Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1921 science-fiction novel We, which also inspired Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished film The Glass House (1930).
Inigio Manglano-Ovalle: Gravity is a force to be reckoned with
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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle's Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With is an installation consisting of a 25 x 25-foot glass house based on Mies van der Rohe's (unbuilt) 1951 House With Four Columns. This house then becomes the stage for a narrative based on Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1921 science-fiction novel We, which also inspired Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished film The Glass House (1930).
Contemporary Art Monographs
Thomas Demand : executive
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This volume records two recent Demand projects: Embassy (2007) and Presidency (2008). For both series, Demand used images of an embassy interior and the Oval Office at the White House, and laboriously reconstructed the rooms as life-size models. After Demand photographed them, the rooms were destroyed, but this volume examines the entire process, from photograph to(...)
Thomas Demand : executive
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This volume records two recent Demand projects: Embassy (2007) and Presidency (2008). For both series, Demand used images of an embassy interior and the Oval Office at the White House, and laboriously reconstructed the rooms as life-size models. After Demand photographed them, the rooms were destroyed, but this volume examines the entire process, from photograph to sculpture to photograph.
Photography monographs
Tatiana Trouvé
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Tatiana Trouvé works with staged rooms, architectonic interventions and snake-like metal sculptural objects. This publication is the first devoted exclusively to Trouvé's drawings, which at first resemble classic architectural sketches, and on closer inspection appear to collapse vanishing points and blur interior and exterior.
Tatiana Trouvé
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Tatiana Trouvé works with staged rooms, architectonic interventions and snake-like metal sculptural objects. This publication is the first devoted exclusively to Trouvé's drawings, which at first resemble classic architectural sketches, and on closer inspection appear to collapse vanishing points and blur interior and exterior.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Described as a "world atlas against disappearance," this artist's book from Cyprien Gaillard (born 1980) presents 900 Polaroid photos, arranged into diamond-shaped grids, of architectural dilapidation, from ancient times to the present. Approaching the world as an archeological dig, Gaillard unites form with content by using an analogously outmoded instrument - the(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
January 2011
Cyprien Gaillard : Geographical analogies
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Described as a "world atlas against disappearance," this artist's book from Cyprien Gaillard (born 1980) presents 900 Polaroid photos, arranged into diamond-shaped grids, of architectural dilapidation, from ancient times to the present. Approaching the world as an archeological dig, Gaillard unites form with content by using an analogously outmoded instrument - the Polaroid - to depict these ruined or about-to-be ruined buildings.
Contemporary Art Monographs
20 + years of Witte de With
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Since its inception in 1990, Witte de With has exhibited some 300 artists and, through its publications, lecture programs and participation in events such as the Venice Biennale and the Shanghai World Expo, the center continues to shape international discourse on art and its institutions. On the occasion of its twentieth anniversary, Witte de With Publishers presents a(...)
Art Periods and Styles
February 2011
20 + years of Witte de With
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Since its inception in 1990, Witte de With has exhibited some 300 artists and, through its publications, lecture programs and participation in events such as the Venice Biennale and the Shanghai World Expo, the center continues to shape international discourse on art and its institutions. On the occasion of its twentieth anniversary, Witte de With Publishers presents a survey celebrating these achievements.
Art Periods and Styles
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This publication focuses the cultural and aesthetic dimensions of sustainability through the lens of postwar and contemporary art. Also representing the fields of design, architecture and technology, Examples to Follow! highlights works ranging from objects made from recycled products to a floating island where clean water can be made by physical activity. The list of(...)
Examples to follow! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability
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This publication focuses the cultural and aesthetic dimensions of sustainability through the lens of postwar and contemporary art. Also representing the fields of design, architecture and technology, Examples to Follow! highlights works ranging from objects made from recycled products to a floating island where clean water can be made by physical activity. The list of international artists includes Joseph Beuys, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Richard Box, Ines Doujak, Adib Fricke, Klara Hobza, Lukas Feireiss, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Josef Hack, Henrik Håkansson, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Christoph Keller, and others.
Art Periods and Styles