Main entry:

Clark Conference (2005 : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)

Title & Author:

Architecture between spectacle and use / edited by Anthony Vidler.

Publication:

Williamstown, Mass. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2008.
©2008

Description:

xiii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Clark studies in the visual arts

Notes:
"This publication is based on the proceedings of the Clark Conference 'Architecture Between Spectacle and Use, ' held 29-30 April 2005 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Questioning the Spectacle -- Spectacle architecture before and after the aftermath: situating the Sydney experience -- Their "Master's voice": notes in the architecture of Hans Scharoun's and Frank Gehry's concert halls -- "The way the world sees London": thoughts on a millennial urban spectacle -- Media as modern architecture -- Histories and Genealogies -- The (trans)formations of fame -- Monumentality in the pictorial still -- "Acid visions" -- Redefining Spectacle -- Nonstandard morality: digital technology and its discontents -- Architecture's expanded field -- Toward a history of quantity -- Image building.

Summary:

This volume examines the state of contemporary architecture worldwide and the ways in which it is caught between the art of display and the accommodation of use.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780931102660 (Clark pbk. ; alk. paper)
0931102669 (Clark pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780300125542 (Yale pbk. ; alk. paper)
0300125542 (Yale pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century Congresses.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Congresses.
Architecture 20e siècle Congrès.
Architecture 21e siècle Congrès.
21.60 architecture: general.
Architecture, Modern.
Architektur
Public buildings.
Form.
Theory and practice.

Form/genre:

Kongress Williamstown (Mass.) 2005.
Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Konferenzschrift 2005 Williamstown Mass.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Vidler, Anthony.
Clark studies in the visual arts.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258267
Call No.: BIB 188951
Status: Available