Knoll: A modernist universe
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The history of Knoll is the history of modern design. Founded in 1938 by Hans Knoll and joined by his wife, Florence Knoll, the company is credited for bringing European modern design to America. Throughout its history Knoll has been at the forefront of cutting-edge design, the first company to produce Mies van der Rohe’s and Marcel Breuer’s tubular furniture for a(...)
Knoll: A modernist universe
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The history of Knoll is the history of modern design. Founded in 1938 by Hans Knoll and joined by his wife, Florence Knoll, the company is credited for bringing European modern design to America. Throughout its history Knoll has been at the forefront of cutting-edge design, the first company to produce Mies van der Rohe’s and Marcel Breuer’s tubular furniture for a receptive domestic market, making Bauhaus ideals a reality to an American audience. More recently Knoll has produced instant classics from Frank Gehry and Richard Meier. Comprehensive in narrative and scope, this monograph presents images and texts on furniture, furnishings, systems, and graphics.
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Habitat marocain documents
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Casablanca’s Habitat Marocain housing project was built between 1954 and 1956 by Swiss architects Jean Hentsch and André Studer, part of the major postwar reconstruction and expansion undertaken by the French colonial administration after World War II. The building was intended to house local inhabitants rather than European expats, and that intention guided the(...)
Habitat marocain documents
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Casablanca’s Habitat Marocain housing project was built between 1954 and 1956 by Swiss architects Jean Hentsch and André Studer, part of the major postwar reconstruction and expansion undertaken by the French colonial administration after World War II. The building was intended to house local inhabitants rather than European expats, and that intention guided the architects in their design, which reflected a number of ethnographic assumptions about the Moroccan populace. This richly illustrated book explores the process of designing and building Habitat Marocain, illustrating the complicated interplay of ethnographic imagination and design synthesis, as well as the increasingly informal further development of the project after it was officially completed.
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Alexander Calder: trees
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Alexander Calder (1898–1976) famously transposed modernist visual abstraction into three-dimensional space, initially doing so in the context of European abstract artists such as Mondrian. In 1933, leaving Paris for his native United States, he settled in an old farmhouse in Roxbury, Connecticut, where the forms of nature became a new source of inspiration for his(...)
Alexander Calder: trees
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Alexander Calder (1898–1976) famously transposed modernist visual abstraction into three-dimensional space, initially doing so in the context of European abstract artists such as Mondrian. In 1933, leaving Paris for his native United States, he settled in an old farmhouse in Roxbury, Connecticut, where the forms of nature became a new source of inspiration for his creativity. By the summer of 1934, Calder was producing his first outdoor sculptures. His monumental standing mobile "The Tree" (1966) exemplifies this new tension between abstraction and figuration. This volume, published for an exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, tracks Calder’s evolution away from geometric abstraction and toward large-scale biomorphism via the tree motif.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This instalment of C3 comprises two main themes, “Introvert Potential”, about the qualities of closed spaces and their dialogue with each other and the public context, and “City Inherit”, which details methods for urban acupuncture through three European case studies: Belfast’s MAC, the Lund Cathedral Forum and the San Antón Charity School, Madrid. Diego Terna provides an(...)
C3 337
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This instalment of C3 comprises two main themes, “Introvert Potential”, about the qualities of closed spaces and their dialogue with each other and the public context, and “City Inherit”, which details methods for urban acupuncture through three European case studies: Belfast’s MAC, the Lund Cathedral Forum and the San Antón Charity School, Madrid. Diego Terna provides an illustrative text for the first theme, taking projects like House S by Suga Atelier and the Mecenat Art Museum by Naf Architect & Design as examples. A special, in-depth focus on Seung H-Sang, one of the most highly celebrated Korean practitioners of architecture today, completes the issue.
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Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen steer their practice with rigid frames out of which a profoundly lyrical architecture comes forth: works where pure geometries and matrix order help them make a link between artistic image and spatial experience. ''Arquitectura Viva'' now presents a selection of them – from a large public facility and two houses to a group of(...)
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November 2023
AV 257 Pezo von Ellrichshausen
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Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen steer their practice with rigid frames out of which a profoundly lyrical architecture comes forth: works where pure geometries and matrix order help them make a link between artistic image and spatial experience. ''Arquitectura Viva'' now presents a selection of them – from a large public facility and two houses to a group of pavilions – that shows how life can spontaneously arise also from fixations. In this issue’s dossier, four European buildings present new constructional uses of wood, the retrospective that Herzog & de Meuron have organised at the Royal Academy of Arts, and three exhibitions in Europe on Yayoi Kusama.
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Museums, galleries, foundations, collectors, artists, viewers--how do they all come together? How is that changing? This collection of essays and some photographs from a Cologne working group called European Kunsthalle tackles the fundamental issues facing new initiatives and institutions for contemporary art. It is divided into five topics: The Problem of Location, The(...)
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April 2007, Cologne
Under Construction : perspectives on institutional practice
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Museums, galleries, foundations, collectors, artists, viewers--how do they all come together? How is that changing? This collection of essays and some photographs from a Cologne working group called European Kunsthalle tackles the fundamental issues facing new initiatives and institutions for contemporary art. It is divided into five topics: The Problem of Location, The Process of Societal Transformation, Cultural Economies, Curatorial Concepts, and, most ambitiously of all, The Way in Which the Art System Operates. Articles and discussion transcripts include "The Crisis of the Audience," "The Cultural Politics of Institutions," "Smuggling: A Curatorial Model," "The Power and Powerlessness of the Private Collector" and Liam Gillick's "Revised Construction of One."
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AMAG 40 Go Hasegawa
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How do we dwell lightly? Or build with care? ‘AMAG’ presents a curated selection of key projects by Japanese architect Go Hasegawa, offering insight into the spatial, cultural, and poetic dimensions of his architecture. From private homes to communal spaces, rural Japan to European sites, a deep sensitivity to place, memory, and the human body is revealed. Projects like(...)
AMAG 40 Go Hasegawa
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How do we dwell lightly? Or build with care? ‘AMAG’ presents a curated selection of key projects by Japanese architect Go Hasegawa, offering insight into the spatial, cultural, and poetic dimensions of his architecture. From private homes to communal spaces, rural Japan to European sites, a deep sensitivity to place, memory, and the human body is revealed. Projects like House in a Forest, Pilotis in a Forest, and House in Komazawa explore lightness, nature, and structural clarity. The Yoshino Cedar House merges domesticity and community under one roof, while urban works like Apartment in Nerima and House in Gotanda reimagine domestic life in dense cities.
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"No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America : 1960–1980" is the first history to trace the emergence of the artist's book in the U.S. during the 1960s and 1970s. This history takes a inclusive view of the varied field of book art and redresses the sporadic or confused acknowledgment from the art world that has long marginalized the artist's book. The book identifies European(...)
No longer innocent : book art in America, 1960-1980
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"No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America : 1960–1980" is the first history to trace the emergence of the artist's book in the U.S. during the 1960s and 1970s. This history takes a inclusive view of the varied field of book art and redresses the sporadic or confused acknowledgment from the art world that has long marginalized the artist's book. The book identifies European precursors of these kinds of artists' books, then quickly moves to America with the development of artists and books and non-profit organization. "No Longer Innocent" also addresses the ways book art affected and responded to art movements, such as Pop, Fluxus, or Conceptualism.
Book Design
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Climate-friendly construction is essential if we are to ensure that future generations can enjoy comfortable living spaces. Design and the choice of materials help to considerably reduce the climate impact of buildings. The techniques featured in this book come from all five climatic zones and many are drawn from non-European and bygone societies. The low-tech approaches,(...)
Architecture follows climate: Traditional architecture in the five climate zones
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Climate-friendly construction is essential if we are to ensure that future generations can enjoy comfortable living spaces. Design and the choice of materials help to considerably reduce the climate impact of buildings. The techniques featured in this book come from all five climatic zones and many are drawn from non-European and bygone societies. The low-tech approaches, illustrated in schematic drawings and explained in texts, are a source of inspiration for the design of sustainable and energy-autonomous building structures. "Architecture follows climate" provides the first in-depth and comprehensive overview of passive building techniques that have been tried and tested for centuries.
Green Architecture
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In the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European intellectuals in search of places as yet untouched by modernity. Among the revolutionaries, artists, and thinkers drawn to Naples were numerous scholars at a formative stage in their journeys: Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Asja Lacis, Theodor W. Adorno, and many others. While all were(...)
Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the summer that made critical theory
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In the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European intellectuals in search of places as yet untouched by modernity. Among the revolutionaries, artists, and thinkers drawn to Naples were numerous scholars at a formative stage in their journeys: Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Asja Lacis, Theodor W. Adorno, and many others. While all were indelibly shaped by the volcanic Neapolitan landscape, it was Benjamin who first probed the relationship between the porous landscape and the local culture. But Adorno went further, transforming his surroundings into a radical new philosophy—one that became a turning point in the modern history of the discipline.
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