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Each year the Dutch institutions teaching architecture, urban design and landscape architecture select their best final-year projects. The crop is unfailingly rich and varied and reflects the ambition of a new generation of designers ready to take on every imaginable design task that comes their way. The book Archiprix 2006 introduces the latest wave of fledgling design(...)
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April 2006, Amsterdam
Archiprix 2006 : the best Dutch graduation projects
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Each year the Dutch institutions teaching architecture, urban design and landscape architecture select their best final-year projects. The crop is unfailingly rich and varied and reflects the ambition of a new generation of designers ready to take on every imaginable design task that comes their way. The book Archiprix 2006 introduces the latest wave of fledgling design talent. Archiprix is well-known at home and abroad as a platform for promising architects, urban designers and landscape architects. Not just clients, employers and schools but also the organizers of competitions and workshops are becoming increasingly adept at locating gifted designers in the making as presented by Archiprix.
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The last thirty years of the twentieth century saw the birth of more than six hundred art museums in the United States alone, with equal proliferation in much of Europe. Such projects as Frank Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao and Richard Meier's Getty Center in Los Angeles have dominated television newscasts and newspaper headlines worldwide. The success or failure of these(...)
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October 2006, New York
Towards a new museum, expanded edition
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The last thirty years of the twentieth century saw the birth of more than six hundred art museums in the United States alone, with equal proliferation in much of Europe. Such projects as Frank Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao and Richard Meier's Getty Center in Los Angeles have dominated television newscasts and newspaper headlines worldwide. The success or failure of these new museums, in aesthetic, educational and financial terms, results from a variety of factors, none more important than their architecture. In this unique investigation, architectural historian Victoria Newhouse challenges many hitherto accepted premises of museum design. She demonstrates that new museums are often based on old concepts that no longer apply. This unvarnished analysis is informed by interviews with museum directors and curators, collectors, artists and the architects themselves. Newhouse divides her discussion according to the dominant characteristics of the museums : private collections, single-artist museums, sacred spaces, artists' self-created sites, and museum additions. In addition to the Getty and the Guggenheim Bilbao, the author discusses the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas; the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; the Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art in Helsinki; Donald Judd's Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Grand Louvre and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; and many more.
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October 2006, New York
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As we write this 8,000 people die from AIDS every day, more than at any other time during the epidemic. The incredible wealth of creative expression in these pages begins to articulate the sober reality of that statistic and, we hope, will galvanize all of us to continue working together to end this disease.
Emergent memory: the national AIDS memorial competition
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As we write this 8,000 people die from AIDS every day, more than at any other time during the epidemic. The incredible wealth of creative expression in these pages begins to articulate the sober reality of that statistic and, we hope, will galvanize all of us to continue working together to end this disease.
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Harald Szeemann (1933-2005) was one of the most influential curators of the recent past. An entire generation of curators has been inspired by his independent way of creating exhibitions and his emphatic method of presenting contemporary art. In retrospect, Szeemann's infallible interest in artistic loners with strong attitudes and powerful personalities seems like a(...)
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April 2006, Ostfildern-Ruit
Harald Szeemann : exhibition maker
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Harald Szeemann (1933-2005) was one of the most influential curators of the recent past. An entire generation of curators has been inspired by his independent way of creating exhibitions and his emphatic method of presenting contemporary art. In retrospect, Szeemann's infallible interest in artistic loners with strong attitudes and powerful personalities seems like a vehement contradiction of the kind of art market that focuses on trends and movements. This volume describes the "Szeemann principle," the visions of an enlightened artistic curator, and provides an overview of the most important stations of his singular curatorial career: the legendary exhibitions "When Attitudes Become Form" and documenta 5, the great thematic explorations such as "Bachelor Machines" and "Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk," his discovery of the young Eastern European scenes, and the Biennials in Venice, Lyon, and Seville.
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Produced annually, "Projects review" shows something of the spirit and priorities of the Architectural Association – the debates around ideas, the preoccupations of the teaching units, the investigations of new techniques. Each unit in the School, from Foundation to Graduate level, selects the best work produced during the year. In full colour in 2005/06, Projects Review(...)
AA projects review 05/06 : experimentaation
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Produced annually, "Projects review" shows something of the spirit and priorities of the Architectural Association – the debates around ideas, the preoccupations of the teaching units, the investigations of new techniques. Each unit in the School, from Foundation to Graduate level, selects the best work produced during the year. In full colour in 2005/06, Projects Review also includes a DVD that features student projects, exhibitions, lectures, symposia and publications with over 4000 images and 80 video presentations. Both book and DVD are a cumulative record of life of the Architectural Association during the past year.
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The building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, begun in 1857, is the most elaborately designed and decorated museum in Britain. This book is the first to consider the V as a work of art in itself, presenting drawings, watercolours and historic photographs relating to the museum’s 19th-century exteriors and interiors. Much of this visual material is previously unpublished(...)
Designing the V: the museum as a work of art (1857-1909)
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The building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, begun in 1857, is the most elaborately designed and decorated museum in Britain. This book is the first to consider the V as a work of art in itself, presenting drawings, watercolours and historic photographs relating to the museum’s 19th-century exteriors and interiors. Much of this visual material is previously unpublished and is outside the canon of Victorian art and design. The V’s first Director, Henry Cole, conceived the museum’s building as a showcase for leading Victorian artists to design and decorate. This book reveals for the first time the ways in which Cole’s expressed policy to ‘assemble a splendid collection of objects representing the application of Fine Arts to manufacture’ was applied to the fabric of the building, as he engaged leading painters such as Frederic Leighton, G.F. Watts and Edward Burne-Jones, as well as specialists in decoration such as Owen Jones and Morris and Company, to decorate and design for a building raised by engineers using innovatory materials and techniques. This book represents a fascinating, untold chapter in the history of British 19th-century art, design, architecture and museums, and provides an essential key to understanding the evolution of the museum’s early collections and identity.
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What meanings do buildings and places convey to the people who use and visit them? Too often, design competitions and signature architecture result in costly eyesores that do not work. These studies, from those specific to the Wexner Center to those of historical significance, point towards a new method for shaping the visual form of buildings, places, and cities.
Design by competition : making design competition work
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What meanings do buildings and places convey to the people who use and visit them? Too often, design competitions and signature architecture result in costly eyesores that do not work. These studies, from those specific to the Wexner Center to those of historical significance, point towards a new method for shaping the visual form of buildings, places, and cities.
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April 1999, Cambridge
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With World Expo at the doorstep, Lisbon presents its architectural plans for the exposition site. With detailed ground plans, scale-models, CAD-designs, and drawings, this book gives a good idea of what the Expo will look like.
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January 1900, Lisbon
Lisbon world expo 98 : projects
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With World Expo at the doorstep, Lisbon presents its architectural plans for the exposition site. With detailed ground plans, scale-models, CAD-designs, and drawings, this book gives a good idea of what the Expo will look like.
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January 1900, Lisbon
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Tate Modern opened its doors in 2000, since when it has become the most popular modern and contemporary art attraction in the world, now welcoming more than 5 million visitors a year. Working with the shell of the former Bankside Power Station, internationally acclaimed architects Herzog & de Meuron created a gallery of singular power and beauty, whose spaces articulate a(...)
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November 2016
Tate Modern: building a museum for the 21st century. Herzog & de Meuron
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Tate Modern opened its doors in 2000, since when it has become the most popular modern and contemporary art attraction in the world, now welcoming more than 5 million visitors a year. Working with the shell of the former Bankside Power Station, internationally acclaimed architects Herzog & de Meuron created a gallery of singular power and beauty, whose spaces articulate a rare affinity with contemporary art. With the second major phase of the building now complete, Tate Modern presents a striking combination of the raw and the refined, of found industrial spaces and dazzling contemporary architecture. This is the definitive book of the building, and tells vividly the story of Tate Modern and the building of a twenty-first-century museum.
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Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists’ engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world’s fairs in the nineteenth century, this book argues that 'globalism' was incubated in a century of international art contests and(...)
The global work of art: world's fairs, biennials, and the aesthetics of experience
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Global biennials have proliferated in the contemporary art world, but artists’ engagement with large-scale international exhibitions has a much longer history that has influenced the present in important ways. Going back to the earliest world’s fairs in the nineteenth century, this book argues that 'globalism' was incubated in a century of international art contests and today constitutes an important tactic for artists.
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