Title & Author:

Informal architectures : space and contemporary culture / [compiled by] Anthony Kiendl.

Publication:

London : Black Dog Publishing, ©2008.

Description:

207 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 29 cm

Notes:
"The Informal Architectures exhibition was organised by the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre. It was held at the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta 22 June-23 September 2007 then circulated to Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 3 May-28 June 2008"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-204).
Introduction / Anthony Kiendl -- Informal architectures : space in contemporary culture / Anthony Kiendl -- Popular science / Patrick Keiller -- Center for Land Use Interpretation -- Emptiness and imagination / Marie-Paule Macdonald -- Wir meinen : die Selbstrasierer sind die Helden alle Zeiten und Lander / Knowles Eddy Knowles -- Bungalow blitz : on art, architecture and curating / Aoife MacNamara -- Research photographs / Kim Adams -- Termination of view / Bernie Miller -- Corner pieces (Banff) / Lance Blomgren -- Death by chocolate : Dan Graham in conversation with Anthony Kiendl -- Post-peasant architecture : the house Bunică built, a case study / Donald Goodes -- itourist? Notes on the affective economies of Holocaust tourism / Paul Antick -- Evacuations : de-colonising architecture / Eyal Weizman -- What isn't there / Elle Flanders -- Informal architect : Lida Abdul / Sara Raza -- Landfills and lifescapes : the transformation of New York's Fresh Kills / Joel McKim -- William Pope. L in conversation with Anthony Kiendl -- Politics of informal production / Andrea Phillips -- Goldfinger project / Arni Haraldsson -- Ruptures on the architectural grid : Brian Jungen's Treaty project, Métis road allowance houses and other models of inhabiting the 'In-between' / Candice Hopkins -- Temporary territories / Marjetica Potrč -- Tent embassies : collapsing, Australia and architecture / Gregory Cowan -- Ex-urbis / Andrew King and Angela Silver -- Portable architecture : design workshops at Domaine de Boisbuchet / Robert Kronenburg -- Architecture of motion / Sarah Bonnemaison and Christine Macy -- Eating architecture / Rita McKeough -- Between the furniture and the building (between a rock and a hard place) / Jimmie Durham -- Caravans are cool / Sean Topham.
CCA mentioned in acknowledgements. Includes reproductions of material from the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark on deposit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal.

Summary:

"[A] compilation of new and classic writing and visual art on spatial culture in modernity post-9/11. The work gathered here creates an alternative perspective on the built environment through contemporary culture. Particular attention is paid to spaces that are in some way temporary, contingent, marginal, or fictional in order to critically analyse the meaning of art, and to provide a tenable counter-narrative to architecture's dominant ideologies concerning technological imperatives and the monumental"--Page 4 of cover

ISBN:

9781906155339 (hbk.)
190615533X

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture in art Exhibitions.
Art, Modern 21st century Exhibitions.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture dans l'art Expositions.
Art 21e siècle Expositions.
Architecture in art.
Architecture, Modern.
Art, Modern.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Exhibitions.
Art and architecture Exhibitions.
Conceptual art Exhibitions.
Banff (Alta.) Description and travel
Graham, Dan, 1942-
Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 Exhibitions.
Abdul, Lida, 1973-
Pope.L, William, 1955-
Goldfinger, Ernö
Jungen, Brian
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Form/genre:

Interviews.
Exhibition Publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Exhibition publications.

Added entries:

Kiendl, Anthony Frank, 1968-
Keiller, Patrick
Macdonald, Marie-Paule
Mac Namara, Aoife
Adams, Kim, 1951-
Miller, Bernie, 1948-
Blomgren, Lance, 1970-
Graham, Dan, 1942-
Goodes, Don
Antick, Paul
Weizman, Eyal
Flanders, Elle
Raza, Sara
McKim, Joel, 1975-
Pope.L, William, 1955-
Phillips, Andrea
Haraldsson, Arni Rúnar, 1958-
Hopkins, Candice, 1977-
Potrč, Marjetica, 1953-
Cowan Gregory (Gregory John)
King, Andrew, 1962-
Silver, Angela
Kronenburg, Robert
Bonnemaison, Sarah
Macy, Christine
McKeough, Rita
Durham, Jimmie
Topham, Sean
Walter Phillips Gallery
Plug In ICA (Gallery)
Knowles Eddy Knowles (Group)
Centre canadien d'architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258976
Call No.: NA687 .I54 2008
Status: Available