Japan : dwelling houses
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A love letter to Japan’s traditional, handmade wooden houses. In this book, author and modernist architectural historian Werner Blaser pays homage to the classical Japanese dwellings of the 15th to 18th centuries. These simple but elegant structures stand today as beacons of tranquility and craftsmanship in a fragmented, throw-away world. No religious shrines or martial(...)
Japan : dwelling houses
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A love letter to Japan’s traditional, handmade wooden houses. In this book, author and modernist architectural historian Werner Blaser pays homage to the classical Japanese dwellings of the 15th to 18th centuries. These simple but elegant structures stand today as beacons of tranquility and craftsmanship in a fragmented, throw-away world. No religious shrines or martial castles here, just homes full of light, space and serenity that show how subtly man and nature can live together.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
Jakob Kolding : City 2
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Danish artist and urban activist Jakob Kolding makes collages that ask: "Who built your neighborhood? For whom was it built? Who uses the space?" This is a visual and verbal dialogue on the dense urban landscapes familiar throughout the globe. Through essays, poignant collages of appropriated comic book images and black-and-white photos with text, Kolding makes it clear(...)
Jakob Kolding : City 2
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Danish artist and urban activist Jakob Kolding makes collages that ask: "Who built your neighborhood? For whom was it built? Who uses the space?" This is a visual and verbal dialogue on the dense urban landscapes familiar throughout the globe. Through essays, poignant collages of appropriated comic book images and black-and-white photos with text, Kolding makes it clear that urban planning has failed miserably, creating concrete corridors that are veritable holding tanks for the masses. But he also finds the spark of human spirit rising through youth street culture, pop music, and skateboarding. A definite reality check on architecture and urban planning! Essays by Stephen Graham, Simon Marvis, Iain Borden and Doreen Massey.
Urban Theory
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This book focusses on the Japanese influences upon Western architecture and presents three buildings of Tadao Ando : the Vitra Seminar House in Weil am Rheim (Germany), the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum (Japan) and Fabrica, Benetton Communication Research in Villorba/Treviso (Italy). " The nearnest of the distant " - these concise title also hold a two-fold image : an(...)
Tadao Ando : the nearnest of the distant / nähe des fernen
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This book focusses on the Japanese influences upon Western architecture and presents three buildings of Tadao Ando : the Vitra Seminar House in Weil am Rheim (Germany), the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum (Japan) and Fabrica, Benetton Communication Research in Villorba/Treviso (Italy). " The nearnest of the distant " - these concise title also hold a two-fold image : an image that is seen from up close and the distance that lies therein. It also means to see history through the proximity of our time, through the here and now.
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Olson Sundberg Kunding Allen Architects : art + architecture : the Ebsworth collection + residence
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San Francisco, 2006. This volume invites the reader into the elegant Seattle home of the collector Barney A. Ebsworth, who owns an important private collections of modern American art. The house was designed specifically for the collection, which includes seminal paintings and sculptures by Hopper, de Kooning, Pollock, O'Keefe, Johns, Hockney and Calder, among many(...)
Architecture Monographs
May 2006, San Francisco
Olson Sundberg Kunding Allen Architects : art + architecture : the Ebsworth collection + residence
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San Francisco, 2006. This volume invites the reader into the elegant Seattle home of the collector Barney A. Ebsworth, who owns an important private collections of modern American art. The house was designed specifically for the collection, which includes seminal paintings and sculptures by Hopper, de Kooning, Pollock, O'Keefe, Johns, Hockney and Calder, among many others. "Art + architecture" is one of the first examinations ever of how a collector works with an architecture firm-in this case, Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen which understands the alchemy that allows a great work of art to exist independently in a room, and still allow the residents to live life around it. This book includes photos of the art in the home and also beautiful color reproductions of each piece. With an essay by Franklin Kelly, curator of British and American art at the National Gallery.
Architecture Monographs
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Has corporate business overtaken the art world? It's no secret that art and business have always mixed, but their relationship today sparks more questions than ever. "Museum, inc." describes the new art conglomerates from an insider's perspective, probing how their roots run deep into corporate culture. Paul Werner draws on his nine years at the Guggenheim Museum to(...)
Museum, inc : inside the global art world
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Has corporate business overtaken the art world? It's no secret that art and business have always mixed, but their relationship today sparks more questions than ever. "Museum, inc." describes the new art conglomerates from an insider's perspective, probing how their roots run deep into corporate culture. Paul Werner draws on his nine years at the Guggenheim Museum to reveal that contemporary art museums have not broken radically with the past, as often claimed. Rather, Werner observes, they are the logical outcome of the evolution of cultural institutions rooted in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the colonial expansion of the liberal nation-state, and the rhetoric of democracy. Werner critically analyzes today's art institutions and reframes the public's accepted view of them, exposing how their apparent success belies the troubling forces operating within them. He ultimately argues that the art museum we know and love may have already run its course. An engaging discourse structured as an informal gallery talk, "Museum, inc." is a thought-provoking and passionate polemic that offers ideas for a new, more democratic museum.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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Balancing environmental, social, economic, and aesthetic concerns, sustainable design has the potential to transform everyday life and is already reshaping the fields of architecture and product design. "Beyond green : toward a sustainable art" explores the influence of this design philosophy on an emerging generation of international artists who combine a fresh aesthetic(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
September 2005, Chicago / New York
Beyond green : toward a sustainable art
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Balancing environmental, social, economic, and aesthetic concerns, sustainable design has the potential to transform everyday life and is already reshaping the fields of architecture and product design. "Beyond green : toward a sustainable art" explores the influence of this design philosophy on an emerging generation of international artists who combine a fresh aesthetic sensibility with a constructively critical approach to the production, dissemination, and display of art. This catalogue's exhibition includes existing works, commissions, and previously presented work that has been “recycled,” spotlighting ways in which artists are building paths to new forms of practice. The exhibition is curated by Stephanie Smith, curator at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, and is co-organized by iCI and the Smart Museum. It is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with artist interviews, and essays by Smith and by design historian Victor Margolin.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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From as early as 1900 Finland, at that time ruled by Russia, was to see in architecture a political and social vehicle. Modern architecture, with the promises it held for social change and hopes for technological progress, was to become a cultural phenomenon over the course of the twentieth century. This book explores the shape of architecture from Finland’s independence(...)
Finland
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From as early as 1900 Finland, at that time ruled by Russia, was to see in architecture a political and social vehicle. Modern architecture, with the promises it held for social change and hopes for technological progress, was to become a cultural phenomenon over the course of the twentieth century. This book explores the shape of architecture from Finland’s independence in 1917 until the present day, and how the ‘modern agenda’ became a blueprint to advance the nation’s society and define its identity. Roger Connah assesses the work of well-known heroes of Finnish architecture such as Reima Pietila, Juhä Leiviskä and ‘modern master’ Alvar Aalto, as well as many other less familiar figures whose contribution is little known outside Finland. He discusses developments in architecture in relation to the culture and politics of the new independent Finland, as well as parallel movements in the arts, and also surveys the early part of the century, as Finland came into its own as a new nation state. He examines the rationalised developments of the 1930s, the ‘organic’ and vernacular tendencies of modern architecture, and how some of modernism’s devices were combined with a particular Nordic sensibility. He also looks at the reconstruction and urbanisation of the post-war years, the use of industrial building methods and prefabricated materials, the ‘golden age’ of Finnish modernism in the 1950s, and the developments thereafter. Connah also considers how architecture has been publicised in magazines, galleries and through exhibitions. By the end of the twentieth century Finland had transformed itself into a modern industrial economy at the cutting edge of the it world, and its buildings continue to be regarded as exemplary modern works. Roger Connah assesses Finnish modern architecture’s relation to the broader cultural and political conditions of Finland and modernity at large, making this study crucial to our understanding of Finland’s place in architecture and in culture today.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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This incisive look at the historical, social, and economic forces that have shaped China's modern architecture analyzes the country's struggle to define its own architectural aesthetics. Since the early 1980s, when China opened its doors to international trade and tourism, the country's economy has expanded at an incredible rate. Today, China is poised to be a testing(...)
Contemporary Asian Architecture
January 1900, Munich / Berlin /London / New York
China's new dawn : an architectural transformation
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This incisive look at the historical, social, and economic forces that have shaped China's modern architecture analyzes the country's struggle to define its own architectural aesthetics. Since the early 1980s, when China opened its doors to international trade and tourism, the country's economy has expanded at an incredible rate. Today, China is poised to be a testing ground for the world's most innovative designers and engineers. Layla Dawson's groundbreaking survey of architectural currents in China lays out not only the historical events that have brought the country to this unique position, but explores the challenges inherent in opening up the country to outside forces and ideas. She examines projects by Chinese and non-Chinese architects, including Zaha Hadid's Soho City masterplan, Rem Koolhaas's CCTV Headquarters, Norman Foster's Shanghai Tower and plans for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. As Dawson demonstrates how conflicting architectural philosophies are visible in China's newly rising skyline, she takes an unblinking look at the liabilities China faces by opening itself up to foreign influence.
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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Arpentant les rues et les places son carnet à la main, parcourant la planète pour donner des conférences ou suivre ses chantiers, Le Corbusier a façonné son œuvre en réaction constante au monde environnant. À travers de nombreux documents intimes et rarement montrés dans leur continuité, Jean-Louis Cohen, spécialiste de ce personnage mi-secret, mi-tonitruant, voyage sur(...)
Le Corbusier : la planète comme chantier
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Arpentant les rues et les places son carnet à la main, parcourant la planète pour donner des conférences ou suivre ses chantiers, Le Corbusier a façonné son œuvre en réaction constante au monde environnant. À travers de nombreux documents intimes et rarement montrés dans leur continuité, Jean-Louis Cohen, spécialiste de ce personnage mi-secret, mi-tonitruant, voyage sur les traces du premier " expert volant " de l'architecture. Croquis de voyage, photographies de sa collection, lettres à ses amis, ouvrages personnels annotés et maquettes de projet nous livrent avec une intensité particulière un être d'émotion et de passion avec ses coups de génie, coups de tête, hésitations et contradictions. En écho à l'histoire et à la culture du XXe siècle, écrivains, artistes de tous les milieux et femmes de lettre sont aussi ici présents, témoignant pour la première fois de la sociabilité très intense de Le Corbusier.
Architecture Monographs
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Actes de la septième conférence internationale de DOCOMONO (Paris, 16-19 septembre 2002): "Vers une histoire culturelle de la modernité architecturale : les démarches radicales s'inscrivent souvent dans un espace transcendant. C'est ce qui est arrivé à la modernité architecturale, bien connue pour ses héros, ses icônes, ses manifestes et ses intentions sociales(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
September 2005, Saint-Étienne
La réception de l'architecture du Mouvement moderne : image, usage, héritage - The reception of architecture of the modern movement : image, usage, heritage
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Actes de la septième conférence internationale de DOCOMONO (Paris, 16-19 septembre 2002): "Vers une histoire culturelle de la modernité architecturale : les démarches radicales s'inscrivent souvent dans un espace transcendant. C'est ce qui est arrivé à la modernité architecturale, bien connue pour ses héros, ses icônes, ses manifestes et ses intentions sociales généreuses. Mais comment l'architecture, art de l'utilitas, aurait-elle pu se délier des contraintes du XXe siècle ? Elle est bien la fille des mythes, des contradictions, des aspirations et plus encore, des rapports de force en transformation du siècle passé." Proceedings of the seventh international conference DOCOMOMO : "radical approaches often subscribe to the notion of the transcendence of time. This assertion characterize architecural modernity, with its celebrated heroes, icons, manifestoes and noble social intentions. Yet how could architecture, the art of utilitas, have entirely freed itself from the constraints of the rwentieth century? Indeed architectural modernity emerges directly from the myths, the aspirations and, even more, the changing power relations of the century past."
Architecture since 1900, Europe