Jewish Museum Munich
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The opening of the Jewish Museum Munich in 2007 brings to a close almost eight decades of continuous effort to find a home for Jewish history and culture in Munich. The result is a museum that is dedicates to Munich's eventful Jewish history as well as to the most diverse aspects of Jewish culture in the past and present.
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January 1900, Munich, Berlin, London, New York
Jewish Museum Munich
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The opening of the Jewish Museum Munich in 2007 brings to a close almost eight decades of continuous effort to find a home for Jewish history and culture in Munich. The result is a museum that is dedicates to Munich's eventful Jewish history as well as to the most diverse aspects of Jewish culture in the past and present.
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L'odyssée des Musées
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Depuis l'Antiquité, au temps où les Grecs faisaient payer une obole aux fidèles pour leur permettre d'admirer les trésors des temples, le musée a connu de nombreux avatars. En suivre les diverses métamorphoses permet de découvrir, au fil des siècles, comment les grandes collections, qui sont aujourd'hui les fleurons des musées, se sont constituées et quelles aventures(...)
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November 2007, Paris
L'odyssée des Musées
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Depuis l'Antiquité, au temps où les Grecs faisaient payer une obole aux fidèles pour leur permettre d'admirer les trésors des temples, le musée a connu de nombreux avatars. En suivre les diverses métamorphoses permet de découvrir, au fil des siècles, comment les grandes collections, qui sont aujourd'hui les fleurons des musées, se sont constituées et quelles aventures elles ont subies : vols, razzias, invasions, guerres, restitutions. Présenté de façon chronologique, cet ouvrage raconte la fabuleuse odyssée des musées : l'accumulation d'œuvres d'art réservées aux dieux, les cabinets de curiosité créés pour la délectation des souverains, l'ouverture au grand public des collections royales ou encore l'essor actuel des musées conçus dans le monde entier par les plus grands architectes.
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The Royal Institute of British Architects'Award are perhaps the most rigorously judged awards in any sector in the world. The overall prize, the RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects'Journal, is chosen from a shortlist that has been visited by four different sets of judges. The process is shown and the winning building announced live in a Channel 4(...)
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December 2007, London, New York
Architecture 07: the guide to the Riba Awards
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The Royal Institute of British Architects'Award are perhaps the most rigorously judged awards in any sector in the world. The overall prize, the RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects'Journal, is chosen from a shortlist that has been visited by four different sets of judges. The process is shown and the winning building announced live in a Channel 4 programme made by TalkbackTHAMES and presented by Kevin McCloud. This guide describes and illustrates all eighty-four RIBA, RIBA National, RIBA European and RIBA International Award-winning schemes, including the winners of the international Lubetkin Prize and a series of further prizes for conservation, client of the year, inclusive design, sustainability, houses, schools and small projects.
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December 2007, London, New York
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The so-called utopia of the centre beaubourg - An interpretation, is the culmination of Luca Frei's fascination with and interest in Swiss sociologist Albert Meister's book 'La soi-disant utopie du centre beaubourg'. This seminal text appeared under the pseudonym of Gustave Affeulpin in 1976. It is a fictional account of the creation of a more than 70-storey, alternative(...)
So-called utopia of the Centre Beaubourg: an interpretation
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The so-called utopia of the centre beaubourg - An interpretation, is the culmination of Luca Frei's fascination with and interest in Swiss sociologist Albert Meister's book 'La soi-disant utopie du centre beaubourg'. This seminal text appeared under the pseudonym of Gustave Affeulpin in 1976. It is a fictional account of the creation of a more than 70-storey, alternative Centre Beaubourg underneath the existing Parisian cultural centre.
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One hundred twenty-eight rare photos show Beaux-Arts architecture. Midway, Ferris Wheel, more. Architectural emphasis; full text.
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January 1900, New York
The Chicago world's fair of 1893 : A photographic record
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One hundred twenty-eight rare photos show Beaux-Arts architecture. Midway, Ferris Wheel, more. Architectural emphasis; full text.
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The German Pavilions were the actual event at the 1958 Brussels World Fair, because what appeared as an oasis of modesty among the typical exhibition fairground of bizarre sensationalism was precisely what would not have been expected of economic miracle Germany: no showing off or pomposity, just architecture distinguished by its reticence and the refined simplicity of(...)
Egon Eierman / Sep Ruf : Deutsch Pavillons, Brüssel 1958
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The German Pavilions were the actual event at the 1958 Brussels World Fair, because what appeared as an oasis of modesty among the typical exhibition fairground of bizarre sensationalism was precisely what would not have been expected of economic miracle Germany: no showing off or pomposity, just architecture distinguished by its reticence and the refined simplicity of the architectural resources, and by the happy combination of men who created it, all so similar in the nature of their thinking: Egon Eiermann and Sep Ruf as architects, Walter Rossow as landscape and garden planner, and Hans Schwippert responsible for the exhibition programme.
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The Serpentine Gallery has commissioned Olafur Eliasson and architect Kjetil Thorsen to design its Pavilion in 2007. Based on the principle of a winding ramp, the Pavilion explores the idea of vertical circulation within a single space. “Our collaboration on the Serpentine Pavilion 2007 is defined by our mutual focus on the experience of space and on temporality as a(...)
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July 2007, London, Baden
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon 2007
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The Serpentine Gallery has commissioned Olafur Eliasson and architect Kjetil Thorsen to design its Pavilion in 2007. Based on the principle of a winding ramp, the Pavilion explores the idea of vertical circulation within a single space. “Our collaboration on the Serpentine Pavilion 2007 is defined by our mutual focus on the experience of space and on temporality as a constitutive element of spaces, private or public. We both work within a field of spatial experimentation that renders conceptual differences between art and architecture superfluous.” The publication comprises extensive visual material documenting the development and realisation of the pavilion; two essays by Doreen Massey, Professor of Geography at The Open University (UK), and Andreas Ruby, architecture critic; a conversation between Olafur Eliasson, Kjetil Thorsen, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Julia Peyton-Jones (Co-directors, Serpentine Gallery).
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July 2007, London, Baden
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Focusing on the golden era of world's fairs, from the 1930s to the 1970s, this book offers a nostalgic glimpse of the future in vintage photographs, postcards, previously unpublished memorabilia, and drawings of pavilions, created by such designers and architects as Buckminster Fuller, Norman Bel Geddes, Kisho Kurokawa, and Le Corbusier. Innovative, informative, and(...)
Exit to tomorrow : world's fair architecture, design, fashion, 1933-2005
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Focusing on the golden era of world's fairs, from the 1930s to the 1970s, this book offers a nostalgic glimpse of the future in vintage photographs, postcards, previously unpublished memorabilia, and drawings of pavilions, created by such designers and architects as Buckminster Fuller, Norman Bel Geddes, Kisho Kurokawa, and Le Corbusier. Innovative, informative, and entertaining, this souvenir of yesterday's tomorrow is a tour of the achievements of avant-garde architecture and design.
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Catalogue de l'exposition « D'un regard l'autre » au musée du quai Branly.
D'un regard l'autre : histoire des regards européens sur l'Afrique, l'Amérique et l'Océanie
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Catalogue de l'exposition « D'un regard l'autre » au musée du quai Branly.
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October 2006, Paris
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«Je voudrais passionnément que Paris possède un centre culturel [...] qui soit à la fois un musée et un centre de création où les arts plastiques voisineraient avec la musique, le cinéma, les livres, la recherche audiovisuelle. [...] Tout cela coûte cher [...] Mais [...] si l'objectif est atteint, ce sera une réussite sans précédent.» Lorsque Georges Pompidou livre ces(...)
Le Centre Pompidou : les années Beaubourg
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«Je voudrais passionnément que Paris possède un centre culturel [...] qui soit à la fois un musée et un centre de création où les arts plastiques voisineraient avec la musique, le cinéma, les livres, la recherche audiovisuelle. [...] Tout cela coûte cher [...] Mais [...] si l'objectif est atteint, ce sera une réussite sans précédent.» Lorsque Georges Pompidou livre ces mots au Monde en 1972, sa décision est prise depuis 1969. Et malgré les années de vives polémiques qui s'ensuivent - sur sa nécessité même, sur le lieu choisi, le plateau Beaubourg, sur son architecture aux allure de «raffinerie» , le Centre Pompidou ouvre ses portes le 1er février 1977. Aussitôt, le public s'y presse un masse, découvrant sa désormais incontournable BPI, son CCI, Ircam et ses recherches acoustiques la richesse clé son musée, le Mnam et ses mémorables expositions, un calendrier quotidien de spectacles, de colloques de conférences, de rencontres. C'est à l'histoire de ces trente «années Beaubourg» que nous convie Germain Viatte, trente ans d'une activité culturelle sans précédent, dont le public ne saurait aujourd'hui se passer.
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January 1900, Paris
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