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Isamu Noguchi founded and designed the museum for the display of his own work. This book focuses on the unique dynamic between the museum’s artworks, architecture, and visitors.
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September 2015
The Noguchi Museum : a portrait
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Isamu Noguchi founded and designed the museum for the display of his own work. This book focuses on the unique dynamic between the museum’s artworks, architecture, and visitors.
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Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias(...)
Fair America: world's fairs in the United States
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Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.
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Cet ouvrage ouvre les portes des plus grands musées d’Europe qui, dans toute la diversité de leur conception et de leurs collections, ont eu pour volonté commune d’offrir une histoire des arts et des cultures. L’on découvrira les collections encyclopédiques du Vatican, les sculptures classiques de la cour du Belvédère, les collections impériales russes des palais de(...)
Grands musées d'Europe : le rêve du musée universel
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Cet ouvrage ouvre les portes des plus grands musées d’Europe qui, dans toute la diversité de leur conception et de leurs collections, ont eu pour volonté commune d’offrir une histoire des arts et des cultures. L’on découvrira les collections encyclopédiques du Vatican, les sculptures classiques de la cour du Belvédère, les collections impériales russes des palais de l’Ermitage, les collections des Habsbourg réunies au Kunsthistorisches Museum de Vienne, les collections des Bourbons conservées au musée du Prado. L’on verra dans le musée du Louvre et dans le British Museum, la réalisation du rêve napoléonien de musée universel. Dans le projet d’une citadelle de la culture, l’on reconnaîtra le système muséal prussien installé sur la Museumsinsel de Berlin, et, plus circonscrit, le Rijskmuseum d’Amsterdam. Huit chapitres et un corpus photographique pour connaître l’historique de ces musées, la genèse et l’évolution des collections, pour cheminer à travers ces lieux emblématiques qui accueillent des chefs-d’œuvre de l’Histoire. Introduction d'Antonio Paolucci. Rédaction scientifique de Valerio Terraroli.
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For almost 100 years, Coney Island was the most popular seaside destination in the United States. Each year, millions escaped the heat of New York City to savor the thrills of the Cyclone roller coaster and Wonder Wheel at the Astroland amusement park. They came to sample an original Nathan's Famous hot dog, witness the first demolition derby, or to take a chance at a(...)
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April 2007, New York
Coney island : the parchute pavilion competition
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For almost 100 years, Coney Island was the most popular seaside destination in the United States. Each year, millions escaped the heat of New York City to savor the thrills of the Cyclone roller coaster and Wonder Wheel at the Astroland amusement park. They came to sample an original Nathan's Famous hot dog, witness the first demolition derby, or to take a chance at a game of three-card Monte on the legendary boardwalk. The advent of air-conditioning, concerns about Coney's "tawdry" entertainment, and faster transportation to other beaches hastened the demise of what had become a uniquely American icon of entertainment and a defining terminus of New York at the water's edge. In an effort to revitalize the area, the Van Alen Institute, in concert with the Coney Island Development Corporation, held the Parachute Pavilion Competition, a contest to design a year-round pavilion in the shadow of the Parachute Jump, a landmark built for the 1939 World's Fair. Coney Island: The Parachute Pavilion Competition presents all 864 submissions—from the feasible to the fantastic—received from around the world. The winning design by London-based Carmody Groarke Hardie is a mesmerizing attraction in its own right, composed of two provocative trapezoids illuminated by thousands of colored light bulbs. The design respects the historic icon under which it is located but also promises to become an icon in its own right and bring the fun-loving spirit of Coney Island into the twenty-first century. Featuring essays, photographic documentation, and jury comments, Coney Island: The Parachute Pavilion Competition is a critical resource for students, designers, city officials, and anyone interested in Coney Island and the reinvention of the historic recreation sites of our cities.
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April 2007, New York
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"Old Europe" is beginning to show strong signs of renewed vitality, to judge from the results of this latest edition of the European Union prize for contemporary architecture - Mies van der Rohe award 2003. And not only because 269 works were selected, or because the number of competing countries (particularly those of Eastern Europe) is steadily increasing, bit also by(...)
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January 1900, Barcelona
Mies van der Rohe Award 2003 : European Union prize for contemporary architecture
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"Old Europe" is beginning to show strong signs of renewed vitality, to judge from the results of this latest edition of the European Union prize for contemporary architecture - Mies van der Rohe award 2003. And not only because 269 works were selected, or because the number of competing countries (particularly those of Eastern Europe) is steadily increasing, bit also by virtue of the high average standard of the entries, particularly of the winning projects and 40 runner-up featured in this catalogue. In the end, the winning project encompasses all this : Zaha Hadid's tram station in Strasbourg is at the same time a strategy, open-ended, imperfect, intelligent and playful. But it also resolved and unafraid to identify with conventional architectural qualities.
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Les bâtisseurs du Louvre
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Ce guide se propose, en suivant l'évolution du monument, de retracer une certain histoire de l'architecture française, depuis les premières murailles de Philippe Auguste jusque'aux structures de verre et d'acier de la pyramide de Pei.
June 2003, Paris
Les bâtisseurs du Louvre
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Après un panorama des musées de l'Antiquité à nos jours, cet ouvrage propose un choix de 25 projets récents, en France et à l'étranger, très différents par leur échelle, leur propos et leur esthétique. Ils sont classés en trois thèmes : le musée dans la ville ; le musée dans son paysage ; les restructurations et les extensions.
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April 2005, Paris
25 musées
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Après un panorama des musées de l'Antiquité à nos jours, cet ouvrage propose un choix de 25 projets récents, en France et à l'étranger, très différents par leur échelle, leur propos et leur esthétique. Ils sont classés en trois thèmes : le musée dans la ville ; le musée dans son paysage ; les restructurations et les extensions.
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Architecture et art, contenant et contenu, écrin et trésors: telle est l'approche que vous propose l'ouvrage Musées du Monde, Chefs-d'oeuvre d'architecture. Ce guide passionnant, qui raconte l'histoire des collections et des édifices qui les abritent, bénéficie du privilège de l'expertise de Giulia Camin, consultant au palais Grassi à Venise.
Musées du monde : chefs-d'oeuvre d'architecture
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Architecture et art, contenant et contenu, écrin et trésors: telle est l'approche que vous propose l'ouvrage Musées du Monde, Chefs-d'oeuvre d'architecture. Ce guide passionnant, qui raconte l'histoire des collections et des édifices qui les abritent, bénéficie du privilège de l'expertise de Giulia Camin, consultant au palais Grassi à Venise.
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The Serpentine Gallery has commissioned Olafur Eliasson and architect Kjetil Thorsen to design its Pavilion in 2007. Based on the principle of a winding ramp, the Pavilion explores the idea of vertical circulation within a single space. “Our collaboration on the Serpentine Pavilion 2007 is defined by our mutual focus on the experience of space and on temporality as a(...)
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July 2007, London, Baden
Serpentine Gallery Pavillon 2007
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The Serpentine Gallery has commissioned Olafur Eliasson and architect Kjetil Thorsen to design its Pavilion in 2007. Based on the principle of a winding ramp, the Pavilion explores the idea of vertical circulation within a single space. “Our collaboration on the Serpentine Pavilion 2007 is defined by our mutual focus on the experience of space and on temporality as a constitutive element of spaces, private or public. We both work within a field of spatial experimentation that renders conceptual differences between art and architecture superfluous.” The publication comprises extensive visual material documenting the development and realisation of the pavilion; two essays by Doreen Massey, Professor of Geography at The Open University (UK), and Andreas Ruby, architecture critic; a conversation between Olafur Eliasson, Kjetil Thorsen, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Julia Peyton-Jones (Co-directors, Serpentine Gallery).
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July 2007, London, Baden
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From April to October in 1964 and 1965, some 52 million people from around the world flocked to the New York World's Fair, an experience that lives on in the memory of many individuals and in America's collective consciousness. Lawrence R. Samuel offers a thought-provoking portrait of this seminal event and of the cultural climate that surrounded it, countering critics'(...)
October 2007, Syracuse
The end of innocence : The 1964-1965 New York world's fair
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From April to October in 1964 and 1965, some 52 million people from around the world flocked to the New York World's Fair, an experience that lives on in the memory of many individuals and in America's collective consciousness. Lawrence R. Samuel offers a thought-provoking portrait of this seminal event and of the cultural climate that surrounded it, countering critics' assessment of the Fair as the "ugly duckling" of global expositions. Although much attention has been paid to the controversial role of Fair president Robert Moses, who tried to use the event to ensure his personal legacy, the Fair itself was for the great majority of visitors an overwhelmingly positive, often inspirational, and sometimes transcendent experience that truly delivered on its theme of "peace through understanding." Much of the Fair's popularity, Samuel suggests, stemmed from its looking backward as much as forward, offering visitors sanctuary from the cultural storm that was rapidly approaching in the mid-1960s. Opening just five months after President Kennedy's assassination, the Fair allowed millions to celebrate international brotherhood while the conflict in Vietnam came to a boil. The Fair glorified the postwar American dream of limitless optimism just as a counterculture of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll was coming into being. It was, in short, the last gasp of the American Dream: The End of the Innocence.