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The Bauhaus, the school of art and design founded in Germany in
1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, brought together artists,
architects and designers--among them Anni and Josef Albers, Herbert
Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius, Johannes
Itten, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lilly
Reich, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stolzl--in an extraordinary
conversation on the nature of art in the industrial age. Aiming to
rethink the form of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site of a
dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that have
profoundly shaped the world today. "Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops
for Modernity," published to accompany a major multimedia
exhibition, is The Museum of Modern Art's first comprehensive
treatment of the subject since its famous Bauhaus exhibition of
1938, and offers a new generational perspective on the twentieth
century's most influential experiment in artistic education.
Organized in collaboration with the three major Bauhaus collections
in Germany (the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
and the Klassic Stiftung Weimar), "Bauhaus 1919-1933" examines the
extraordinarily broad spectrum of the school's products, including
industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography,
textiles, ceramics, theater and costume design, painting and
sculpture. Many of the objects discussed and illustrated here have
rarely if ever been seen or published outside Germany. Featuring
approximately 400 color plates, richly complemented by documentary
images, "Bauhaus 1919-1933" includes two overarching essays by the
exhibition's curators, Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman, that
present new perspectives on the Bauhaus. Shorter essays by more
than 20 leading scholars apply contemporary viewpoints to 30 key
Bauhaus objects, and an illustrated narrative chronology provides a
dynamic glimpse of the Bauhaus' lived history.
This beautifully illustrated publication celebrates the first-ever
restoration of the exterior of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library —
the historic heart of the Morgan Library & Museum. Morgan’s
Library has stood as a significant cultural landmark ever since it
was commissioned by J. Pierpont Morgan for personal use at the
start of the 20th century. Its transition to a public institution
in the twenties has lent to an even greater flood of admiration and
patronage, by both local and international audiences. The elegant
design by Charles Follen McKim stands as one of the finest examples
of neoclassical architecture in the United States, significant for
its distinctive Italian Renaissance style and its opulent interior
period rooms. The site has been designated both a National Historic
Landmark and a New York City landmark, and it is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places. The book, following on the
heels of the completed restoration, will punctuate this latest
milestone in the building’s storied history.
In its 85th year of existence, the architectural practice founded
in 1937 by a very young Juan Sordo Madaleno, has decided to publish
this unconventional monograph which compiles the most ambitious
projects built (and not built) within the context of the
transformation, and which at the same time reflect and determine
the evolution urban and rural landscapes of post-revolutionary
Mexico. From the very first constructions, the firm has been a
pioneer not only in the erection of modern buildings, but also in
inherently urban architectural designs, fundamental components of
overlapping urban scales. This book includes contributions from
some of the leading thinkers in urban architecture today,
highlighting the commitment that has guided a unique family of
architects for three generations.
Famously labelled the father, poet, and prophet of green
architecture and a vocal proponent of the idea that any project in
architecture or design must present new or better ways of living or
be deemed immoral, Emilio Ambasz is an award-winning architect,
industrial designer, and protean maker of forms. He has invented
highly efficient engines, modular furniture, streetlamps, flexible
pens, expandable suitcases, ergonomic door handles,
wrist-computers, dental hygiene systems, and 3D posters. He created
the Vertebra chair, the first ever automatic, ergonomic chair in
the world, now part of the permanent collections at MoMA and The
Met in New York. In architecture he has long been a pioneer, and
has retained a belief in the environment, or rather the larger
ecology, as fundamental in viewing the world: as Professor Bergdoll
notes of Ambasz in his introduction, his philosophy of green over
gray may often have fallen on deaf ears at the height of
Postmodernism, but it today seems profoundly relevant. And it is in
the context of today that the book considers the work of Emilio
Ambasz and its three main areas of concentration architecture,
industrial design, curating with an aim of shining a light on the
interdisciplinary nature of the work as a whole. Featuring built
and manufactured designs that have achieved iconic fame and
challenged others to approach new ways of reconciling architecture
and nature notably the Prefectural Hall at Fukuoka, Japan, and the
conservatory buildings of the San Antonio Botanical Garden, in
addition to his own unique house outside Seville in Spain the book
also considers Ambasz s work as curator at MoMA and his ongoing
influence and legacy.
Mid-March 2020: native New Yorker Gregory Peterson is on an early
evening walk through the city, suddenly shut down by the
coronavirus pandemic. Manhattan's grand public spaces are bare. The
monumental Lincoln Center Plaza is empty. The sounds of skates on
ice and bustle of tourists and workers at Rockefeller Center are
absent. Not a soul on Easter Sunday at the Cathedral of Saint John
the Divine. Starkly silent, the city is stilled, as no one had ever
seen it before. Travelling on foot and by bike to avoid public
transportation, Peterson took more than 400 photographs of over 200
locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens through the spring and
summer of 2020. Using his iPhone 11, he captured myriad surreal
landmarks - the United Nations Secretariat with no traffic, people,
or flags, Grand Central Terminal without a person or even a car in
sight, as well as gelled neighbourhood streets, churches, shops,
and other tourist destinations. Without people, these photos reveal
the city's primeval soul. They unveil a serene beauty most often
obscured by the frenzy of our fast-paced lives. We see New York
with new eyes.
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Lina Bo Bardi (Paperback)
Zeuler R M De a Lima; Foreword by Barry Bergdoll
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The first major retrospective of the Brazilian modernist
architect's life and work One of the most important architects of
the twentieth century, Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was remarkably
prolific and intriguingly idiosyncratic. A participant in the
efforts to reshape Italian culture in her youth, Bo Bardi
immigrated to Brazil in 1946, where her practice evolved within the
social and cultural realities of her adopted country. While she
continued to work with industrial materials, she added simple
building techniques and naturalistic forms to her designs, striving
to create large, multiuse spaces that promoted public life. Lina Bo
Bardi is the first comprehensive study of the architect's life and
work. Author Zeuler Lima, the leading authority on Bo Bardi,
presents her activities on two continents, examining how ethical
and social considerations influenced her intellectual engagement
with modern architecture and providing an indispensable guide to
her writings and her experimental, iconic designs.
A lively thematic survey of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture and its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Bergdoll traces key themes the role of changing theories of history in architecture, the impact of scientific methods, and the response to broadening audiences through examples taken from across European architecture. Key developments in architectural history and urban design are related to the most experimental forms that architecture took from Neoclassicism to the Art Nouveau.
Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) is celebrated as a furniture designer,
teacher, and architect who changed the American house after his
emigration from Hungary to the U.S.A. in 1937. More recently
historians, architects, and-with the reopening in New York of the
great megalith of his Whitney Museum as the Met Breuer-a larger
public are gaining new insights into the cities and large-scale
buildings Breuer planned. Often seen as a pioneer of a "Brutalist
modernism" of reinforced concrete, Breuer might best be understood
through the lens of the changing institutional structures in and
for which he worked, a vantage developed in the fresh approaches
gathered here in essays by a group of younger scholars. These
essays draw on an abundance of newly available documents held in
the Breuer Archive at Syracuse University, now accessible online.
Henri Labrouste is one of the few nineteenth-century architects
consistently lionized as a precursor of modern architecture
throughout the twentieth century and into our own time. The two
magisterial glass-and-iron reading rooms he built in Paris gave
form to the idea of the modern library as a collective civic space.
His influence was both immediate and long-lasting, not only on the
development of the modern library but also on the exploration of
new paradigms of space, materials and luminosity in places of great
public assembly. Published to accompany the first exhibition
devoted to Labrouste in the United States--and the first anywhere
in the world in nearly 40 years--this publication presents nearly
225 works in all media, including drawings, watercolors, vintage
and modern photographs, film stills and architectural models.
Essays by a range of international architecture scholars explore
Labrouste's work and legacy through a variety of approaches.
A book dedicated to the newly constructed expansion of the Kennedy
Center that provides a new topology for performing-arts centers and
a view of how art is made, designed by one of America's most
influential architects. As the first major expansion in Kennedy
Center history, the REACH breaks down boundaries between audience
and art. Set adjacent to the Kennedy Center along the Potomac River
in Washington, D.C., the REACH is set to open in 2019. As a "living
memorial" for John F. Kennedy, the Center for the Performing Arts
takes an active position among the great presidential monuments of
the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials. Steven Holl Architects
envisions the expansion of the building to fuse with the landscape
and river, connecting the Kennedy Center to the Potomac riverfront
for the first time: walk through a grove of thirty-five ginkgo
trees, watch a free outdoor simulcast performance projected on a
wall in a public park, or look out at the Potomac from a river
pavilion cafe. The book offers a comprehensive look at the history
of the project and includes programming initiatives by the Kennedy
Center to memorialize President Kennedy and his significant
contribution to the arts and American culture.
A beautifully illustrated retrospective of Art Nouveau architect
and designer Hector Guimard, positioning him at the forefront of
the modernist movement The aesthetic of architect Hector Guimard
(1867-1942) has long characterized French Art Nouveau in the
popular imagination. This groundbreaking book showcases all aspects
of his artistry and recognizes the fundamental modernity of his
work. Known for, among other things, the decorative entrances to
the Paris Metro and the associated lettering, he often looked to
nature for inspiration, and combined materials such as stone and
cast iron in unique ways to create designs composed of curves and
waves that evoked movement. Guimard broke away from his classical
Beaux-Arts training to advocate a modern, abstract style; he also
pioneered the use of standardized models for his design objects and
experimented with prefabricated designs in his social housing
commissions, advancing the technology of the time. With copious,
beautifully reproduced illustrations of his architectural drawings
as well as his furniture, jewelry, and textile designs, this volume
explores Guimard's full oeuvre and elucidates the significance of
his work to the history of modern art. Essays by an international
group of scholars present Guimard as a visionary architect, a
shrewd entrepreneur, an industrialist, and a social activist.
Published in association with the Richard H. Driehaus Museum
Exhibition Schedule: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New
York (November 17, 2022-May 21, 2023) The Richard H. Driehaus
Museum, Chicago (June 22, 2023-January 7, 2024)
Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is an exploration of new
architectural possibilities for American cities and suburbs in the
aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis in the United States.
During the summer of 2011, five interdisciplinary teams of
architects, urban planners, ecologists, engineers, and landscape
designers were enlisted by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and
MoMA PS1 to envision new housing infrastructures that could
catalyze urban transformation, particularly in the country's
suburbs. Drawing on ideas proposed in The Buell Hypothesis, a
research publication by Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of
American Architecture at Columbia University, each team focused on
a specific `mega region', a metropolitan area between two major
cities, to come up with inventive solutions for the future of
housing and cities, to be exhibited at MoMA in Spring 2012. This
publication presents each of these proposals in detail, through
photographs, drawings, and renderings as well as interviews with
the team leaders. With essays by Barry Bergdoll, MoMA's Philip
Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, and Reinhold
Martin, Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center, Foreclosed
examines the relationship between land, infrastructures, and urban
form in today's cities and suburbs, and presents a potentially
different future for housing in the United States.
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