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Founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great, the State Hermitage Museum is one of the world’s great museums. Occupying a large complex of six historic buildings along the Palace Embankment in St. Petersburg, its collections contain over three million items, including one of the largest collections of paintings in the world. The decision to convert the eastern wing of the(...)
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The Hermitage XXI: the new art Museum in the General Staff Building
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Founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great, the State Hermitage Museum is one of the world’s great museums. Occupying a large complex of six historic buildings along the Palace Embankment in St. Petersburg, its collections contain over three million items, including one of the largest collections of paintings in the world. The decision to convert the eastern wing of the General Staff Building into a museum of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the institution’s founding led to an international architectural competition.
Hot questions - Cold storage: Architecture from Austria. The permanent exhibition at the Az W
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The new permanent display of Architekturzentrum Wien’s (Az W) collection is a milestone in the presentation of architecture and its social dimensions. ''Hot questions—cold storage'' is published alongside this comprehensive exhibition on Austrian architecture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, featuring color images of all exhibits, concise texts, and thematic(...)
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Hot questions - Cold storage: Architecture from Austria. The permanent exhibition at the Az W
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The new permanent display of Architekturzentrum Wien’s (Az W) collection is a milestone in the presentation of architecture and its social dimensions. ''Hot questions—cold storage'' is published alongside this comprehensive exhibition on Austrian architecture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, featuring color images of all exhibits, concise texts, and thematic essays. This book reexamines the country’s architectural culture of the last 150 years, situating it in its cultural, social, and political contexts. Each chapter is prefaced by a question, asking, for example, about the impact of capitalism on our cities and villages or about the contribution architecture can make to our survival on the planet. These ''Hot questions'' bring to life the ''Cold storage''—the silent repository of the collection’s holdings. This book offers a multi-perspective narrative that presents Austria’s building history with all the developments, ideologies, and institutions it comprises. The social relevance of objects and documents is revealed through questioning and visualization, in connecting research and the museum’s mission to collect.
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The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Festival of Empire sixty years later, taking special(...)
janvier 1900, Berkeley
An empire on display : English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War
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The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Festival of Empire sixty years later, taking special interest in the interactive nature of the exhibition experience, the long-term consequences for the participants and host societies, and the ways in which such popular gatherings revealed dissent as well as celebration. Hoffenberg shows how exhibitions shaped culture and society within and across borders in the transnational working of the British Empire. The exhibitions were central to establishing and developing a participatory imperial world, and each polity in that world provided distinctive information, visitors, and exhibits. Among the displays were commercial goods, working machines, and ethnographic scenes. Exhibits were intended to promote external commonwealth and internal nationalism. The imperial overlay did not erase significant differences but explained and used them in economic and cultural terms. The exhibitions in cities such as London, Sydney, and Calcutta were living and active public inventories of the Empire and its national political communities. The process of building and consuming such inventories persists today in the cultural bureaucracies, museums, and festivals of modern nation-states, the appeal to tradition and social order, and the actions of transnational bodies.
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Focusing on the Oxford University Museum, the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, and the Natural History Museum of London, Yanni explores how such institutions reflected varying, often contradictory concepts of nature -- from the handiwork of God to a resource to be exploited. She(...)
Nature's museums : Victorian science & the architecture of display
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Focusing on the Oxford University Museum, the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, and the Natural History Museum of London, Yanni explores how such institutions reflected varying, often contradictory concepts of nature -- from the handiwork of God to a resource to be exploited. She explains how the rise of museums accompanied and influenced the transformation of science from a "gentleman's hobby" to a paying profession. And she shows how the buildings themselves remain invaluable guides to the Victorians' ambiguous perception of the natural world. Through careful social and historical accounts of the buildings, their displays, and their reception, Yanni's work deepens our understanding of the emerging power of museums in Darwin's century.
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mars 2000, Baltimore
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Construit au début du XIXe siècle, au moment où le port de Bordeaux cherche une seconde vie, l'entrepôt Lainé a abrité les épices et les marchandises précieuses ramenées des colonies pendant plus d'un siècle. Désaffecté, menacé de destruction, il est heureusement racheté par la ville de Bordeaux en 1973 pour devenir un lieu à vocation culturelle. Une nouvelle(...)
L'entrepôt : Musée Bordeaux
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Construit au début du XIXe siècle, au moment où le port de Bordeaux cherche une seconde vie, l'entrepôt Lainé a abrité les épices et les marchandises précieuses ramenées des colonies pendant plus d'un siècle. Désaffecté, menacé de destruction, il est heureusement racheté par la ville de Bordeaux en 1973 pour devenir un lieu à vocation culturelle. Une nouvelle page de son histoire commence alors. Réaménagé par les architectes Pistre & Valode et Andrée Putman qui lui rendent son aspect d'origine, l'entrepôt devient musée d'art contemporain, offrant aux artistes une architecture épurée.
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avril 2000, Paris
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Museums and memory
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Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of interaction between personal and collective identities, between memory and history. The essays in this volume consider museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and(...)
Museums and memory
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Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of interaction between personal and collective identities, between memory and history. The essays in this volume consider museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and scholars. Representing a variety of fields—history, anthropology, art history, and museum scholarship—the contributors discuss museums across disciplinary boundaries that have separated art museums from natural history museums or local history museums from national galleries. The essays range widely over time (from the Renaissance to the second half of the twentieth century), and place (China, Japan, the United States, and Germany), in exhibitions explored (photography, Native American history, and “Jurassic technology”), and institution (the Chinese Imperial Collection, Renaissance curiosity cabinets, and modern art museums). Memory operates thematically among the essays in diverse and provocative ways. The papers are organized according to three suggestive themes: experimental ways of theorizing and designing contemporary museums with an explicit interest in history and memory; discussions of personal encounters with historical exhibits; and the professional risks at stake for collectors and curators who shape the institutional presentation of history and memory. The contributors are Susan A. Crane, Wolfgang Ernst, Michael Fehr, Paula Findlen, Tamara Hamlish, Alexis Joachimides, Suzanne Marchand, Julia A. Thomas, and Diana Drake Wilson.
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Each year the best projects by students at Dutch educational institutions teaching architecture, urban design and landscape architecture are assessed by a panel of experts in these fields for the Archiprix competition. In all their diversity, the projects submitted in 2002 give the state of play in Dutch design education. This book presents the winners and the jury's(...)
octobre 2002, Rotterdam
Archiprix 2002 : the best plans by Dutch students
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Each year the best projects by students at Dutch educational institutions teaching architecture, urban design and landscape architecture are assessed by a panel of experts in these fields for the Archiprix competition. In all their diversity, the projects submitted in 2002 give the state of play in Dutch design education. This book presents the winners and the jury's assessment. A shared first prize was awarded to Harm Timmermans and William Verbeek.
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The 1931 international colonial exposition in Paris was a demonstration of French colonial policy, colonial architecture and urban planning, and the scientific and philosophical theories that justified colonialism. The exposition displayed the people, material culture, raw materials,(...)
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Hybrid modernities : architecture and representation at the 1931 colonial exposition, Paris
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The 1931 international colonial exposition in Paris was a demonstration of French colonial policy, colonial architecture and urban planning, and the scientific and philosophical theories that justified colonialism. The exposition displayed the people, material culture, raw materials, manufactured goods, and arts of the global colonial empires. Yet the event gave a contradictory message of the colonies as the "Orient"--the site of rampant sensuality, decadence, and irrationality--and as the laboratory of Western rationality. In "Hybrid modernities", Patricia Morton shows how the exposition failed to keep colonialism's two spheres separate, instead creating hybrids of French and native culture. At the exposition, French pavilions demonstrated Europe's sophistication in art deco style, while the colonial pavilions were "authentic" native environments for displaying indigenous peoples and artifacts from the colonies. The authenticity of these pavilions' exteriors was contradicted by vaguely exotic interiors filled with didactic exhibition stands and dioramas. Intended to maintain a segregation of colonized and colonizer, the colonial pavilions instead were mixtures of European and native architecture. Anticolonial resistance erupted around the Exposition in the form of protests, anticolonial tracts, and a countercolonial exposition produced by the Surrealists. Thus the Exposition occupied a "middle region" of experience where the norms, rules, and systems of French colonialism both emerged and broke down, unsustainable because of their internal contradictions. As Morton shows, the effort to segregate France and her colonies failed, both at the colonial exposition and in greater France, because it was constantly undermined by the hybrids that modern colonialism itself produced.
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This book illuminates the history of a century of the artists' association known as the Vienna Secession and traces the evolution of a temple of art into a major exhibition centre.
avril 1998, Stuttgart
The Vienna Secession : from temple of art to exhibition hall
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This book illuminates the history of a century of the artists' association known as the Vienna Secession and traces the evolution of a temple of art into a major exhibition centre.
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Recognized as one of the most dynamic and innovative research and design schools in Europe, Delft University of Technology produces a yearly catalogue to document research and celebrate the work of students. The best graduation plans of the past year are all discussed in clearly marked chapters.
juillet 2005, Rotterdam
The architecture annual 2002-2003, Delft university of technology
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Recognized as one of the most dynamic and innovative research and design schools in Europe, Delft University of Technology produces a yearly catalogue to document research and celebrate the work of students. The best graduation plans of the past year are all discussed in clearly marked chapters.