Main entry:

Bonnemaison, Sarah.

Title & Author:

Installations by architects : experiments in building and design / Sarah Bonnemaison and Ronit Eisenbach.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.

Description:

192 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-191) and index.
1. Tectonics : Fabric-formed concrete / Mark West ; Gestures / Filum Ltd. ; Phone book shed / Richard Kroeker ; Vivisection / Mette Ramsgard Thomsen ; Auto braids, auto breeding / Evan Douglis ; Sun box / Chris Bardt ; Resistance / James Cathcart, Frank Fantauzzi, and Terence Van Elslander ; Albedo / Kourosh Mahvash -- 2. Body : Recording wall / Dan Hoffman ; Bad press, dissident ironing / Diller + Scofidio ; Re-f(r)action / Taeg Nishimoto ; Ether/I / Mark Goulthorpe ; Body in action / Hodgetts + Fung ; Body in repose / Kuth/Ranieri Architects ; Mute room / Thom Faulders ; Space in the making / Frances Bronet ; Trampolinist / Anna von Gwinner ; FEMMEpissoire / Yolande Daniels ; The Nautilus project / Arturo Torres, Jorge Christie with Daniela Tobar -- 3. Nature : Winter gardens / Pierre Thibault Architects ; Speaking to a stone /Marianne Lund ; Geotextiles / Philip Beesley ; Utopian prospect / Mark Robbins ; Prairie ladder / Anderson Anderson with Cameron Schoepp ; filum aquae: the thread of the stream / Ronit Eisenbach ; NhEW / Tanja Jordan Architects and TK Architecture ; Gardening Sukkah / Allan Wexler -- 4. Memory : Land(e)scape / Marco Casagrande and Sami Rintala ; FireBreak / Detroit Collaborative Design Center, University of Detroit, Mercy School of Architecture ; Eye level / Richard Kroeker ; Place of refuge: the dresser trunk project / Craig Barton [and others] ; The collapse of time / John Hejduk and the Architectural Association community ; Berlin: a renovation of postcards / Lois Weinthal ; Projections and La machine à voir / Atelier in situ -- 5. Public space : Toilets / James Cathcart, Frank Fantauzzi, and Terence Van Elslander ; Pink ghost / Périphériques Architectes ; Line of site / Arqhé Collective with Blair Taylor ; Drawing on site / Kennedy & Violich Architects with Linda Pollack and Matthew VanderBourgh ; How to walk a flat elephant / Shin Egashira + Okamura Furniture Advanced Engineering Team ; NY A/V / fieldoffice ; Structure of light / Leonardo Mosso ; Touch / LAb[au] ; Sky ear / Haque Design + Research ; Barking town square / muf architecture/art. -- Conclusion.
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Summary:

"Over the last few decades, a rich and increasingly diverse practice has emerged in the art world that invites the public to touch, enter, and experience the work, whether it is in a gallery, on city streets, or in the landscape. Like architecture, many of these temporary artworks aspire to alter viewers' experience of the environment. An installation is usually the end product for an artist, but for architects it can also be a preliminary step in an ongoing design process. Like paper projects designed in the absence of "real" architecture, installations offer architects another way to engage in issues critical to their practice. Direct experimentation with architecture's material and social dimensions engages the public around issues in the built environment that concern them and expands the ways that architecture can participate in and impact people's everyday lives." "The first survey of its kind, Installations by Architects features fifty of the most significant projects from the last twenty-five years by today's most exciting architects, including Anderson Anderson, Philip Beesley, Diller + Scofidio, John Hejduk, Dan Hoffman, and Kuth/Ranieri Architects. Projects are grouped in critical areas of discussion under the themes of tectonics, body, nature, memory, and public space. Each project is supplemented by interviews with the project architects and the discussions of critics and theorists situated within a larger intellectual context. There is no doubt that installations will continue to play a critical role in the practice of architecture. Installations by Architects aims to contribute to the role of installations in sharpening our understanding of the built environment."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9781568988504 (alk. paper)
1568988508 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Installations (Art)
Architects as artists.
Architectes artistes.
installations (visual works)

Added entries:

Eisenbach, Ronit, 1962-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 265549
Call No.: BIB 197009
Status: Available