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Book A Clockwork Jerusalem

Download or read book A Clockwork Jerusalem written by Alastair Donald and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published with four different cover images, this book has been conceived as more than a catalogue, featuring essays by the curators and architecture commentator, Owen Hatherley, that propose questions about how the past can inform the future of British architecture.

Book Cj Lim

    Book Details:
  • Author : C. J. Lim
  • Publisher : Images Publishing
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781920744809
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Cj Lim written by C. J. Lim and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the avant-garde world of CJ Lim. Fiercely British, but ever mindful of his Asian roots, CJ Lim's architecture explores the fusion of Eastern values and Western popular cultures, resulting in an eccentric and fun approach. CJ's sharp observationsof life and all its tales have led him to capture the subtle nuances of space making.

Book The History of the Venice Biennale

Download or read book The History of the Venice Biennale written by Enzo Di Martino and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a hundred years of the story behind the Biennale of Venice, the oldest and most prestigious artistic and cultural institution in the world, from the first edition in 1895 to the 52nd one in 2007.

Book Seven Days in the Art World

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  • Author : Sarah Thornton
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2008-11-17
  • ISBN : 0393071057
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Seven Days in the Art World written by Sarah Thornton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life. A judicious and juicy account of the institutions that have the power to shape art history, based on hundreds of interviews with high-profile players, Thornton's entertaining ethnography will change the way you look at contemporary culture.

Book Common Pavilions

Download or read book Common Pavilions written by Gabriele Basilico and published by Scheidegger and Spiess. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Common Pavilions' is based on an exhibition curated by Diener & Diener Architects within the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennial in 2012. Architecture's social and cultural reality was the theme of the 2012 exhibition, titled Common Ground. Bringing the architectural significance of the 29 national pavilions to the attention of visitors, who usually do not really notice these buildings and their individual character and atmosphere when seeing an exhibition there, was the aim of the Common Pavilions project. The celebrated Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico (1944 2013) has taken pictures of all the pavilions in the Giardini di Venezia. His masterful images are featured in large-format and lavish duotone printing. 30 authors from all 29 nations - architects, philosophers, and artists - have contributed short essays, writing on 'their' national pavilion, its history and its identity as a space for presenting art. Basilico's images and the essays merge into a rich and atmospheric panorama of what is probably the world's best known exhibition site.

Book Britain at the Venice Biennale  1895 1995

Download or read book Britain at the Venice Biennale 1895 1995 written by Sophie Bowness and published by British. This book was released on 1995 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Download or read book The Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale written by Rejean Legault and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the various figures and interests involved in the design and construction of the Canada Pavilion and explores how it was used over the past sixty years to exhibit the work of Canadian artists and architects. This publication intends not only to underline the pavilion's importance in the broader context of modern architecture, but also to highlight its role as an early example of cultural diplomacy. The book is fully endowed with archive material, such as photographs, drawings, and maps, along with a portfolio created by contemporary photographers (Francesco Barasciutti and Andrea Pertoldeo), showing the building before, during, and after the restoration. The essays of the various contributors to the book analyze the cultural and political context in which the Canada Pavilion committee worked (Cammie McAtee); the concept and construction of the building and the links with the architect Enrico Peressutti and the BBPR partnership (Réjean Legault); the pavilion's role in the postwar Italian cultural context (Serena Maffioletti) and its fortunes from its inauguration in 1958 to the restoration in 2018 (Josée Drouin-Brisebois); the restoration project itself (Susanna Caccia Gherardine), and, lastly, the relationship between the Canada Pavilion and the Biennale Gardens (Franco Panzini).

Book Biennale Di Venezia  49  Esposizione Internationale D Arte  2001

Download or read book Biennale Di Venezia 49 Esposizione Internationale D Arte 2001 written by Mark Wallinger and published by British Council Visual Arts. This book was released on 2001 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to the Pavilions of the Venice Biennale Since 1887

Download or read book Guide to the Pavilions of the Venice Biennale Since 1887 written by Marco Mulazzani and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art and Artists

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  • Author : Biennale di Venezia British Pavilion
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Art and Artists written by Biennale di Venezia British Pavilion and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Venice Variations

Download or read book The Venice Variations written by Sophia Psarra and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.

Book Architecture as Measure

Download or read book Architecture as Measure written by Neyran Turan and published by Actar. This book was released on 2020 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the current political crisis around climate change, what can architecture possibly contribute towards a new planetary imaginary of our contemporary environment beyond environmentalism and technological determinism? Instead of conceptualizing the idea of the environment as purely natural and in need of protection, as solely a problem that needs to be managed, or merely as the Earth, which limits the scope with a scalar bias, can we speculate on architecture as a measure both to assess and to act upon the world? 'Architecture as Measure' is an elaboration on this question, and on the disciplinary and cultural potentials of such a provocation. It positions climate change as a cultural and political idea that requires a renewed architectural environmental imagination.0The book takes on this task by presenting a set of unconventional collisions between architecture and climate change, which all extrapolate broader concerns of the city, environment, and geography through the lens of specific architectural questions such as form, representation and materiality.

Book Cohabitats

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hashim Sarkis
  • Publisher : Silvana Editoriale
  • Release : 2021-06-14
  • ISBN : 9788836648603
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Cohabitats written by Hashim Sarkis and published by Silvana Editoriale. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the future of cohabitation in Venice and beyond Conceived as a record that delves deeper into a special section of the Biennale Architettura 2021, Co-habitats comprises essays and photo essays that pertain to specific geographic locations. While the main exhibition is primarily organized in five parts that contemplate a new spatial contract at five scales--as diverse beings, as new households, as emerging communities, across borders and as one planet--this volume showcases analytical examples of how we come together at all five of them in and around Venice, as well as in Addis Ababa, Beirut, India, Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, New York, Prishtina and more.

Book Dimensions of Citizenship

Download or read book Dimensions of Citizenship written by Ann Lui and published by Inventory Press. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization, technology, and politics have altered the definition and expectations of citizenship and the right to place. 'Dimensions of Citizenship' documents contributions from the seven firms selected to represent the United States in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. This paperback volume profiles and illustrates each of the US Pavilion contributions and contextualizes them in terms of scale.0Drawing inspiration from the Eames? Power of Ten, 'Dimensions of Citizenship' will provide a view of belonging across seven stages starting with the individual (Citizen), then the collective (Civic, Region, Nation), and expanding to include all phases of contemporary society, real and projected (Globe, Network, Cosmos). Additional essays?by Ingrid Burrington, Ana María León, and Nicholas de Monchaux, among others?will offer essential and enquiring responses to these themes. 00Exhibition: US Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy (16.05.-25.11.2018).

Book 100 Years Spanish Pavilion Venice Bienhb

Download or read book 100 Years Spanish Pavilion Venice Bienhb written by Atxu Amann and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the construction of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Text in English and Spanish.

Book Architecture  Art and Identity in Venice and its Territories  1450   1750

Download or read book Architecture Art and Identity in Venice and its Territories 1450 1750 written by Dr Nebahat Avcioglu and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Deborah Howard’s leading role in fostering a historically grounded and interdisciplinary approach to the art and architecture of Venice, the essays here examine the connections and rapports between art and identity through the discussion of patronage, space (domestic and ecclesiastical), and dissemination of architectural knowledge as well as models within Venice, its territories and beyond.