Title & Author:

Vito Acconci : courtyard in the wind : exhibition of models / edited by Heinz Schütz on behalf of the Department of Municiple Building of Munich ; [translations: Elizabeth Mayer, Ellen Klein].

Publication:

Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz ; New York, N.Y. : Distribution in the US : Distributed Art Publishers, ©2003.

Description:

111 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm

Series:

Reihe Cantz

Notes:
The public body : from Vito Acconci's performances to the architectural work of the Acconci studio / Heinz Schütz -- Courtyard in the wind : proposal for the Building Department administration building, Munich, 1997 / Vito Acconci -- Der öffentliche Körper : vom Vito Acconcis Performances zu den Architekturen des Acconci Studio / Heinz Schütz -- Courtyard in the wind : Vorschlag für das Bürogebäude des Baureferates München, 1997 / Vito Acconci -- Technical data/Technische Daten -- Exhibition of models / Vito Acconci -- Talking city : text passages from a reading by Vito Acconci = Textpassagen einer Lesung Vito Acconcis / Vito Acconci.

Summary:

"The works of New York-based artist Vito Acconci, who was born in 1940, often deal with creating a public defined via the body - from his radical performances in the early seventies to his unusual architectural designs since the establishment of the Acconci Studio in 1988. Courtyard in the Wind, his project for the Technisches Rathaus in Munich, was the first permanent structure by Acconci to be realized in a public space in Germany: a revolving ring of landscape in the courtyard which is powered by the wind rotor located on top of the Rathaus tower." "This book, which is the first documentation of this project, grants valuable insights into the architectural designs of the Acconci Studio with the Exhibition of Models. It features texts by Vito Acconci about the body, architecture, and public space. An essay by Heinz Schutz reviewing Acconci's works from the last decades opens up the horizon against which Courtyard in the Wind is set."--Jacket

ISBN:

3775791450 (pbk.)
9783775791458 (pbk.)

Subject:

Acconci, Vito, 1940-2017.
Acconci, Vito 1940-2017
Acconci, Vito.
Technisches Rathaus (Munich, Germany)
Public architecture Germany Munich.
Architecture publique Allemagne Munich.
Buildings.
Public architecture.
Gestaltung
Innenhof
Kunst am Bau
Munich (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc.
Germany Munich.
Technisches Rathaus
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Ausstellung München.

Added entries:

Acconci, Vito, 1940-2017.
Schütz, Heinz.
Munich (Germany). Baureferat.
Reihe Cantz.

Courtyard in the wind

Holdings:

Location: Library main 237907
Call No.: BIB 167757
Status: Available