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L'entrepôt : Musée Bordeaux
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Construit au début du XIXe siècle, au moment où le port de Bordeaux cherche une seconde vie, l'entrepôt Lainé a abrité les épices et les marchandises précieuses ramenées des colonies pendant plus d'un siècle. Désaffecté, menacé de destruction, il est heureusement racheté par la ville de Bordeaux en 1973 pour devenir un lieu à vocation culturelle. Une nouvelle(...)
L'entrepôt : Musée Bordeaux
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Construit au début du XIXe siècle, au moment où le port de Bordeaux cherche une seconde vie, l'entrepôt Lainé a abrité les épices et les marchandises précieuses ramenées des colonies pendant plus d'un siècle. Désaffecté, menacé de destruction, il est heureusement racheté par la ville de Bordeaux en 1973 pour devenir un lieu à vocation culturelle. Une nouvelle page de son histoire commence alors. Réaménagé par les architectes Pistre & Valode et Andrée Putman qui lui rendent son aspect d'origine, l'entrepôt devient musée d'art contemporain, offrant aux artistes une architecture épurée.
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April 2000, Paris
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Museums and memory
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Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of interaction between personal and collective identities, between memory and history. The essays in this volume consider museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and(...)
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Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of interaction between personal and collective identities, between memory and history. The essays in this volume consider museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and scholars. Representing a variety of fields—history, anthropology, art history, and museum scholarship—the contributors discuss museums across disciplinary boundaries that have separated art museums from natural history museums or local history museums from national galleries. The essays range widely over time (from the Renaissance to the second half of the twentieth century), and place (China, Japan, the United States, and Germany), in exhibitions explored (photography, Native American history, and “Jurassic technology”), and institution (the Chinese Imperial Collection, Renaissance curiosity cabinets, and modern art museums). Memory operates thematically among the essays in diverse and provocative ways. The papers are organized according to three suggestive themes: experimental ways of theorizing and designing contemporary museums with an explicit interest in history and memory; discussions of personal encounters with historical exhibits; and the professional risks at stake for collectors and curators who shape the institutional presentation of history and memory. The contributors are Susan A. Crane, Wolfgang Ernst, Michael Fehr, Paula Findlen, Tamara Hamlish, Alexis Joachimides, Suzanne Marchand, Julia A. Thomas, and Diana Drake Wilson.
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June 2000, Stanford
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias(...)
Fair America: world's fairs in the United States
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Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.
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An edited transcript of the third BALTIC international seminar, Curating New Media focuses on the relationship of new media art to the institution. Curators, artists and academics share their perspectives on the curating, collecting, commissioning and presenting of computer-based art in one of the first books to be published specifically on this subject.
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January 1900, Gateshead, England
Curating new media : third BALTIC International Seminar, 2001
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An edited transcript of the third BALTIC international seminar, Curating New Media focuses on the relationship of new media art to the institution. Curators, artists and academics share their perspectives on the curating, collecting, commissioning and presenting of computer-based art in one of the first books to be published specifically on this subject.
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The theme of the first Rotterdam International Architecture Biennial was mobility--as it relates to the city and the landscape, and the design culture that comes with it. Held between May and July 2003, the biennial brought together numerous universities, architects, urbanists, spatial planners and designers to swap experiences and discuss new strategies for giving shape(...)
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August 2003, Rotterdam
Mobility : a room with a view. International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.
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The theme of the first Rotterdam International Architecture Biennial was mobility--as it relates to the city and the landscape, and the design culture that comes with it. Held between May and July 2003, the biennial brought together numerous universities, architects, urbanists, spatial planners and designers to swap experiences and discuss new strategies for giving shape to (car) mobility. This unique book shows the results of this international research in its various forms: statistics, photography, text, visual collage and design proposals. These together give a tangible and insightful look at the mobile cultures found in a wide range of cities and countries, from Mexico City, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, to Djakarta, Budapest, the Ruhr Valley, Beirut, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Peking and Holland. The aim of the publication is twofold. On the one hand, to understand infrastructures and motorway culture by studying their different cultural and geographical contexts. On the other, to draw up an agenda for the future, one that establishes the role to be played by various design disciplines. This research and publication endeavor is the fruit of a collaboration between the universities of Wuppertal, Aachen, Berlin, California, Monterrey (Mexico), Tokyo, Hong Kong, Peking, Beirut, Budapest, Bandung and Delft.
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Les cabinets de curiosités
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Du nord au sud de l'Europe, à la fin de la Renaissance, surgirent d'étranges endroits : secrets ou visibles, dans des demeures royales comme chez des notables ou des apothicaires, tenant à la fois de l'antre du magicien et de l'officine, les cabinets de curiosité rassemblaient un incroyable capharnaüm couvrant murs et plafonds, débordants des tiroirs et des cassettes. S'y(...)
Les cabinets de curiosités
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Du nord au sud de l'Europe, à la fin de la Renaissance, surgirent d'étranges endroits : secrets ou visibles, dans des demeures royales comme chez des notables ou des apothicaires, tenant à la fois de l'antre du magicien et de l'officine, les cabinets de curiosité rassemblaient un incroyable capharnaüm couvrant murs et plafonds, débordants des tiroirs et des cassettes. S'y côtoyaient mappemondes et objets d'ivoire, monnaies antiques et crânes de singe, dents de géant et cornes de licornes, pierres magiques et queues de sirène, sans oublier de fascinants oiseaux de paradis qui passaient leur vie à voler, supposait-on, puisqu'ils n'avaient pas de pattes… C'est à l'étrange destin de ces théâtres du bizarre qu'est consacré le présent ouvrage. On y retrace brièvement l'histoire du phénomène, on en montre les survivances et les transformations au cours des siècles suivants, on y évoque des figures peu connues de collectionneurs et d'amateurs attachés au culte de la curiosité ; on en souligne aussi l'influence sur certains des grands mouvements artistiques du XXe siècle, on en suit quelques-uns des développements dans l'art contemporain ; on considère enfin les motifs et les formes de réinvention du cabinet de curiosités dans des décors et des cadres de vie actuels.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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Each year the best projects by students at Dutch educational institutions teaching architecture, urban design and landscape architecture are assessed by a panel of experts in these fields for the Archiprix competition. In all their diversity, the projects submitted in 2002 give the state of play in Dutch design education. This book presents the winners and the jury's(...)
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October 2002, Rotterdam
Archiprix 2002 : the best plans by Dutch students
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Each year the best projects by students at Dutch educational institutions teaching architecture, urban design and landscape architecture are assessed by a panel of experts in these fields for the Archiprix competition. In all their diversity, the projects submitted in 2002 give the state of play in Dutch design education. This book presents the winners and the jury's assessment. A shared first prize was awarded to Harm Timmermans and William Verbeek.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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Favoriser par la diffusion et la promotion l'émergence d'une conscience plus fine, plus juste, plus sensible de notre cadre de vie et de l'importance que revêt sa qualité dans le bien-être collectif et individuel, tel est l'objectif que s'assigne Visions , une collection consacrée aux architectures publiques contemporaines en Communauté française de Belgique. L'ouverture(...)
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October 2002, Bruxelles
Visions volume 1 : Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu
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Favoriser par la diffusion et la promotion l'émergence d'une conscience plus fine, plus juste, plus sensible de notre cadre de vie et de l'importance que revêt sa qualité dans le bien-être collectif et individuel, tel est l'objectif que s'assigne Visions , une collection consacrée aux architectures publiques contemporaines en Communauté française de Belgique. L'ouverture du MAC's offre l'occasion d'illustrer le premier volume de la collection.
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Cosmocaixa: the total museum
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Through an ongoing dialogue between museology and architecture, the director of CosmoCaixa, Jorge Wagensberg, and architects Robert and Esteve Terradas examine the conception and construction of the new Barcelona Science Museum, the CosmoCaixa. By designing a series of built elements, the architects negotiated the complex program demands of the museum and the topographic(...)
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October 2007, Barcelona
Cosmocaixa: the total museum
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Through an ongoing dialogue between museology and architecture, the director of CosmoCaixa, Jorge Wagensberg, and architects Robert and Esteve Terradas examine the conception and construction of the new Barcelona Science Museum, the CosmoCaixa. By designing a series of built elements, the architects negotiated the complex program demands of the museum and the topographic difficulties of the site. Through an ongoing dialogue between museology and architecture, the director of CosmoCaixa, Jorge Wagensberg, and architects Robert and Esteve Terradas examine the conception and construction of the new Barcelona Science Museum, the CosmoCaixa. By designing a series of built elements, the architects negotiated the complex program demands of the museum and the topographic difficulties of the site.
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When space meets art
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How long ago have you been to an exhibition or an event? What information and amusement you get from it? Did you enjoy it? We are thrilled to present you our latest title When Space Meets Art/When Art Meets Space which leads you to taste and feel all sorts of events comprehensively. An exhibition, a party or any kinds of event can encompass all design areas. For many(...)
When space meets art
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How long ago have you been to an exhibition or an event? What information and amusement you get from it? Did you enjoy it? We are thrilled to present you our latest title When Space Meets Art/When Art Meets Space which leads you to taste and feel all sorts of events comprehensively. An exhibition, a party or any kinds of event can encompass all design areas. For many of us who usually focus only on the exhibited items or the subject of events, few of us ever pay attention to the whole design environment. This title will guide you to look and feel it through two key components: spatial design and graphic elements. From 3D to 2D, it demonstrates how structural work including venue setups from exterior to interior makes the whole event outstanding and turn into exceptional eye-catching fascination and how graphic elements from venue decorations to promotional items makes consistency to reflect the whole event concept and affect the affiliation from the exhibited subjects to audience. By that, the title ultimately reveals how these objects affect your sense and blow up your impression to particular events.
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