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Theatre and architecture are seeming opposites: one a time-based
art-form experienced in space, the other a spacial art experienced
over time. This book will explore and disprove these assumptions,
demonstrating ways in which theatre and architecture are
co-constitutive and contextualizing their dynamic and complex
inter-relationship historically and culturally.
This authoritative guide to the southwest corner of Wales by three
local experts encompasses a wide sweep of history, from the rugged
prehistoric remains that stud the distinctive windswept landscape
overlooking the Atlantic to distinguished recent buildings that
respond imaginatively to their natural setting. The comprehensive
gazetteer encompasses the great cathedral of St David's and its
Bishop's Palace, the numerous churches, and the magnificent Norman
castles that reflect the turbulent medieval past. It gives
attention also to the lesser-known delights of Welsh chapels--both
simple rural and sophisticated Victorian examples--in all their
wayward variety and provides detailed accounts of a rewarding range
of towns, including the county town, Haverfordwest, the
attractively unspoilt Regency resort of Tenby, and Milford Haven
and Pembroke Dock, with their important naval history. An
introduction with valuable specialist contributions sets the
buildings in context.
Some architects dream of 3D-printing houses. Some even fantasise
about 3D-printing entire cities. But what is the real potential of
3D printing for architects? This issue focuses on another strand of
3D-printing practice emerging among architects operating at a much
smaller scale that is potentially more significant. Several
architects have been working with the fashion industry to produce
some exquisitely designed 3D-printed wearables. Other architects
have been 3D-printing food, jewellery and other items at the scale
of the human body. But what is the significance of this work? And
how do these 3D-printed body-scale items relate to the discipline
of architecture? Are they merely a distraction from the real
business of the architect? Or do they point towards a new form of
proto-architecture - like furniture, espresso makers and pavilions
before them - that tests out architectural ideas and explores
tectonic properties at a smaller scale? Or does this work
constitute an entirely new arena of design? In other words, is 3D
printing at the human scale to be seen as a new genre of 'body
architecture'? This issue contains some of the most exciting work
in this field today, and seeks to chart and analyse its
significance. Contributors include: Paola Antonelli/MoMA, Francis
Bitonti, Niccolo Casas, Behnaz Farahi, Madeline Gannon, Eric
Goldemberg/MONAD Studio, Kyle von Hasseln/3D Systems Culinary Lab,
Rem D Koolhaas, Julia K rner, Neil Leach, Steven Ma/Xuberance, Neri
Oxman/MIT Media Lab, Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, Gilles
Retsin, Jessica Rosenkrantz/Nervous System, and Patrik
Schumacher/Zaha Hadid Architects.
The Whitney Museum is building itself a new home in downtown
Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Due to open on May 1st, 2015, the
project will substantially enlarge the Whitney's exhibition and
programming space. Clad in pale blue- grey enamel steel panels, the
new, eight-storey building is powerfully asymmetrical, with the
bulk of the full-height museum to the west, Hudson-side, with tiers
of lighter terraces and glazed walkways stepping down to the High
Line, embracing it into the project. The Museum is entered via a
dramatically cantilevered plaza, or "largo", a public space that
serves as a kind of decompression chamber between street and
museum, a shared space, with views to the Hudson and the High Line
entrance just a few steps away. Accessed from the "largo", the main
entrance lobby also serves as a public gallery - nearly a thousand
square feet (100 sq. Meters) of free-entry exhibition space.Level
three houses a 170-retractible seat theatre with double-height
views over the Hudson River, along with technical spaces and
offices. Some 4 650 sq. Meters of gallery space is distributed over
levels five, six, seven and eight, the fifth level boasting a 1670
sq. Meters, column-free gallery - making it the largest open-plan
museum gallery in New York City. A text at the end of the book
provides the reader with a "behind the scene" view. A conception of
the museum that starts from the work of art to arrive at the
architectural project. A journey that takes the reader through time
and space during its realisation.
Cradled in the crescent of the Mississippi River and circumscribed
by wetlands, New Orleans has faced numerous challenges since its
founding as a French colonial outpost in 1718. For three centuries,
the city has proved resilient in the face of natural disasters and
human activities, and its resulting urban fabric is the product of
social, political, commercial, economic, and cultural circumstances
that have defined how local residents have interacted with their
surroundings. This detailed survey of the built environment-an
authoritative, comprehensive, post-Hurricane Katrina overview of
buildings, neighborhoods, and landscapes-tells the city's
compelling and fascinating story though concise discussions of
nearly 300 architecturally significant structures, open spaces, and
lesser-known places, enhanced by 175 photographs and 23 maps.
Conveniently organized into thirteen neighborhood tours, two road
trips into nearby parishes, and three excursions up and down the
Mississippi River along the historic Great River Road, the volume
clearly shows how various architectural styles, land uses, economic
conditions, social customs, and cultural factors merge to create
the community's unique flavor. Enlivened by nine topical essays
highlighting everything from renowned authors, cuisine, and jazz to
public markets, green spaces, and historic preservation, this handy
insider's guidebook to the broad sweep of New Orleans's unique
built and natural environments will appeal to all who are
interested in the design history of one of America's most
interesting places.
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A groundbreaking approach to Rococo religious decor and
spirituality in Europe and South America, The Spiritual Rococo
addresses three basic conundrums that impede our understanding of
eighteenth-century aesthetics and culture. Why did the Rococo,
ostensibly the least spiritual style in the pre-Modern canon,
transform into one of the world's most important modes for adorning
sacred spaces? And why is Rococo still treated as a decadent
nemesis of the Enlightenment when the two had fundamental
characteristics in common? This book seeks to answer these
questions by treating Rococo as a global phenomenon for the first
time and by exploring its moral and spiritual dimensions through
the lens of populist French religious literature of the day-a body
of work the author calls the 'Spiritual Rococo' and which has never
been applied directly to the arts. The book traces Rococo's
development from France through Central Europe, Portugal, Brazil,
and South America by following a chain of interlocking case
studies, whether artistic, literary, or ideological, and it also
considers the parallel diffusion of the literature of the Spiritual
Rococo in these same regions, placing particular emphasis on
unpublished primary sources such as inventories. One of the
ultimate goals of this study is to move beyond the cliche of
Rococo's frivolity and acknowledge its essential modernity.
Thoroughly interdisciplinary, The Spiritual Rococo not only
integrates different art historical fields in novel ways but also
interacts with church and social history, literary and
post-colonial studies, and anthropology, opening up new horizons in
these fields.
Montage has been hailed as one of the key structural principles of
modernity, yet its importance to the history of modern thought
about cities and their architecture has never been adequately
explored. In this groundbreaking new work, Martino Stierli charts
the history of montage in late 19th-century urban and architectural
contexts, its application by the early 20th-century avant-gardes,
and its eventual appropriation in the postmodern period. With
chapters focusing on photomontage, the film theories of Sergei
Eisenstein, Mies van der Rohe's spatial experiments, and Rem
Koolhaas's use of literary montage in his seminal manifesto
Delirious New York (1978), Stierli demonstrates the centrality of
montage in modern explorations of space, and in conceiving and
representing the contemporary city. Beautifully illustrated, this
interdisciplinary book looks at architecture, photography, film,
literature, and visual culture, featuring works by artists and
architects including Mies, Koolhaas, Paul Citroen, George Grosz,
Hannah Hoech, El Lissitzky, and Le Corbusier.
Narratives of Architectural Education provides an overview of life
as an architecture student, detailing how a layperson may develop
an architectural identity. This book proposes becoming an architect
as a personal narrative of professional development structured
around various stages and challenges associated with identity
transformation. Using a case study of aspiring architects along
multiple time points of their professional education, Thompson
investigates the occupational identity of architects; how
individuals construct a sense of themselves as future architects
and position themselves within the architectural community. This
book provides previously unexamined insights into not just the
academic development of an architect, but also the holistic and
experiential aspects of architectural education. It would be ideal
for those in the educational field of architecture, to include
students, educators, interns, and mentors.
This beautiful porcelain tray from Galison features the designs of
Frank Lloyd Wright. Trimmed with gold this tray is sure to brighten
up your table. - Size: 9.6 x 5.15 x .55inches - Gift box included
Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape,
defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of
uses and perceptions. Bringing together outstanding scholars from
cultural history, geography, philosophy, and a host of other
disciplines, this collection examines the complex entanglement
between routes and landscapes. It traces the changing conceptions
of the landscape from the Enlightenment to the present day, looking
at how movement has been facilitated, imagined and represented and
how such movement, in turn, has conditioned understandings of the
landscape. A particular focus is on the modern transportation
landscape as it came into being with the canal, the railway, and
the automobile. These modes of transport have had a profound impact
on the perception and conceptualization of the modern landscape, a
relationship investigated in detail by authors such as Gernot
BAhme, Sarah Bonnemaison, Tim Cresswell, Finola O'Kane, Charlotte
Klonk, Peter Merriman, Christine Macy, David Nye, Vittoria Di
Palma, Charles Withers, and Thomas Zeller.
Never before have so many buildings been constructed as they are
today, and never has architecture had so many technolog-ical and
design possibilities at its disposal. And yet there is a sense of
unease about contemporary architecture. The authors of this book
show how in modern times we have lost the balance between
outstanding works of architecture and the back-ground structures
that surround them, with every building striving to assert itself
in relation to all others. Yet the modern age is certainly capable
of developing a harmony of contrasts - it has everything it needs
at its disposal. The authors show what contemporary architecture
must take into account if it is to achieve a satisfactory overall
architectural impression that is harmonious in an entirely new way.
The influence of Anjou and Aragon, and the traces left by Bourbon,
Hapsburg and Napoleonic domination have made Naples a
treasure-trove of different styles and periods, rich in original
imperfections and extravagance that deserve to be discovered and
enjoyed. This guide is aimed at illustrating the structure and
unusual aspects of a city in constant artistic ferment, where
architecture ranges from ancient aristocratic palaces to the modern
futuristic skyscrapers of the business district, the Art Stations
of the Naples Metro, the small Art Nouveau houses in the poorer
areas in the historic centre; architecture that exists layer upon
layer, spreading outwards to the city boundaries. The twenty-year
period of Fascism was crucial for Neapolitan architecture: the city
was the object of widespread land drainage and reclamation work,
resulting in the conclusive isolation of the Angevin Keep, the
creation of the new Corsea in the area of the new foundations for
the San Giuseppe-Carita district, as well as a large number of
building projects in the city centre. The 'On the Road' series
offers readers a voyage of discovery showing how ancient historical
buildings like those of Naples, can cohabit alongside some of the
most innovative and contemporary architecture existing today.
Montage has been hailed as one of the key structural principles of
modernity, yet its importance to the history of modern thought
about cities and their architecture has never been adequately
explored. In this groundbreaking new work, Martino Stierli charts
the history of montage in late 19th-century urban and architectural
contexts, its application by the early 20th-century avant-gardes,
and its eventual appropriation in the postmodern period. With
chapters focusing on photomontage, the film theories of Sergei
Eisenstein, Mies van der Rohe's spatial experiments, and Rem
Koolhaas's use of literary montage in his seminal manifesto
Delirious New York (1978), Stierli demonstrates the centrality of
montage in modern explorations of space, and in conceiving and
representing the contemporary city. Beautifully illustrated, this
interdisciplinary book looks at architecture, photography, film,
literature, and visual culture, featuring works by artists and
architects including Mies, Koolhaas, Paul Citroen, George Grosz,
Hannah Hoech, El Lissitzky, and Le Corbusier.
Product of a research cooperation between three Swiss universities
- the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's School of
Architecture, the School of Architecture and Technology in
Fribourg, and the University of Fribourg - the Smart Living Lab is
a research and development centre for the built environment of the
future. This high-tech structure also serves as an emblem of the
cooperation's aim to translate academic research into actual
buildings. A new series of books, entitled Towards 2050 will be
showcasing the ambitious undertaking at various stages. Exploring:
Research-driven Building Design presents the second phase of
research at the Smart Living Lab, which focuses on the various
problems that must be solved to satisfy future buildings'
sustainability goals. Given that the building sector is one of the
world's biggest contributors to CO2 emissions and energy
consumption, the research group is seeking strategies to improve
energy and carbon performance of the Smart Living Lab, anticipating
the expected tight requirements thirty years from now. The book
features contributions by Marilyne Andersen and Emmanuel Rey;
Anne-Claude Cosandey, Marilyne Andersen, and Emmanuel Rey; Thomas
Jusselme; Dominic Villeneuve, Thierry Maeder, Hamed Alavi, Vincent
Kaufmann, and Denis Lalanne; Thomas Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Cedric
Liardet, Himanshu Verma, Derek Christie, Marc Antoine Messer, and
Luca Pattaroni; Arianna Brambilla, Cecile Nyffeler, Hugo Gasnier,
Jean-Marie Le Tiec, and Arnaud Misse; Didier Vuarnoz, Julien
Nembrini, Philippe Couty, and Thibaut Schafer; Florinel Radu;
Thomas Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Stefano Cozza, Raphael Tuor, Renato
Zulli, Nicolas Henchoz, and Denis Lalanne; and Thomas Jusselme and
Didier Vuarnoz. Further volumes in the Towards 2050 series:
Thinking: Visions for Architectural Design.
Erased by bombing during the Korean War, North Korea's trophy
capital of Pyongyang was entirely rebuilt from scratch from 1953,
in line with the vision of the nation's founder, Kim Il-sung.
Designed as an imposing stage set, it is a place of grand axial
boulevards linking gargantuan monuments, lined with stately piles
of distinctly Korean flavor, to be "national in form and socialist
in content."Under the present leader, Kim Jong-un, construction has
ramped up apace-"Let us turn the whole country into a socialist
fairyland," declares one of his official patriotic slogans. He is
rapidly transforming Pyongyang into a playground, conjuring a
flimsy fantasy of prosperity and using architecture as a powerful
anesthetic, numbing the population from the stark reality of his
authoritarian regime.Guardian journalist and photographer Oliver
Wainwright takes us on an eye-opening tour behind closed doors in
the most secretive country in the world, revealing that past the
grand stone facades lie lavish wonder-worlds of marble and mosaic,
coffered ceilings, and crystal chandeliers, along with new
interiors in dazzling color palettes. Discover the palatial reading
rooms of the Grand People's Study House, and peer inside the locker
rooms of the recently renovated Rungrado May Day Stadium, ready to
host a FIFA World Cup that will never come.This collection features
about 300 photographs with insightful captions, as well as an
introductory essay where Wainwright charts the history and
development of Pyongyang, explaining how the architecture and
interiors embody the national "Juche" ideology and questioning what
the future holds for the architectural ambitions of this enigmatic
country.
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