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In this invaluable and thought-provoking book, Vladimir
Belogolovsky reflects on nearly 20 years of conversations with
leading creatives from around the world whose focus is on art,
photography, architecture, design, critical theory, and more. His
intimate dialogues are with prolific visionaries, the likes of Paul
Andreu, Aaron Betsky, Tatiana Bilbao, Christo, Norman Foster, Zaha
Hadid, Toyo Ito, Glenn Murcutt, Renzo Piano, Moshe Safdie, Ric
Scofido, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Michael Sorkin, Stanley
Tigerman, Bernard Tschumi, Lin Utzon, Massimo Vignelli, Madelon
Vriesendorp, and so many others. He exposes the complexity of their
thought processes, while comparing and contrasting them to one
another to distill more than 101 ideas. His engaging narrative
captures the stories behind every project and every personality
while exploring many important questions, including what makes a
building architecture? How would a Futurist solve problems vs those
whose focus is on nostalgia? The selection of interviews gathers
many answers and intentions, but inevitably, also many more
questions. Imagine Buildings Floating Like Clouds represents a
diverse group of multitalented, creative people who work in
disparate places culturally and climatically and came of age in
very different times-from the revolutionary 1960s to our own time,
when the future, for many, is being more feared than desired.
Some architects regard a visit to Chicago as equal in importance to
a pilgrimage to Rome or Athens: The soaring American metropolis at
the shores of Lake Michigan has amassed an unmatched collection of
first-rate buildings in every possible style since late
nineteenth-century industrialization. This book looks at Chicago
through the prism of Post-Modernism - under the premise that this
style did not cease to exist sometime in the 1990s, but is, in
fact, still with us today. Starting with the 1978 Illinois Regional
Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, curator and
critic Vladimir Belogolovsky presents 100 structures, most of which
were created after the turn of the millennium. These lavishly
illustrated building descriptions are supplemented by introductory
essays and interviews with Chicago architects, including Stanley
Tigerman, Helmut Jahn and Jeanne Gang.
David Hu's Sea Girt House ocillates gracefully between a sort of
proto minimalism and a hyper orchestrated spatial awareness. It's a
project that makes no bones about its purpose of providing a
single-minded solitude for its inhabitant, even while demonstrating
its unwavering solicitude towards its surrounding enviornment.
Vladimir Belogolovsky's Harry Seidler: The Exhibition leaves no
stone unturned in documenting his ongoing, four years in the making
to date, world tour exhibition, Harry Seidler: Painting Toward
Architecture. It examines the blurry boundaries between art and
architecture and how these disciplines inspire one another by
bringing to focus the work of Vienna-born Australian modernist
Harry Seidler and his creative collaborations with a dozen of
world-renowned architects and artists. Curator of 20 Seidler
exhibitions and author of Harry Seidler: Lifework (Rizzoli, 2014),
Belogolovsky provides detailed insights into the project from
beginning to end: pitching initial exhibition idea to the client,
developing its concept, arranging the tour, preparing the content,
designing individual exhibitions, managing installations,
presenting the lecture, initiating new collaborations and projects.
The book's focus on a single touring exhibition is unprecedented;
it explores what typical exhibition catalogues miss entirely -
spatial engagement with the content by the public. In its attempt
to present various aspects of a single exhibition the book raises
fundamental curatorial issues beyond the project in question.
Vladimir Belogolovsky's Harry Seidler: The Exhibition leaves no
stone unturned in documenting his ongoing, four years in the making
to date, world tour exhibition, Harry Seidler: Painting Toward
Architecture. It examines the blurry boundaries between art and
architecture and how these disciplines inspire one another by
bringing to focus the work of Vienna-born Australian modernist
Harry Seidler and his creative collaborations with a dozen of
world-renowned architects and artists. Curator of 20 Seidler
exhibitions and author of Harry Seidler: Lifework (Rizzoli, 2014),
Belogolovsky provides detailed insights into the project from
beginning to end: pitching initial exhibition idea to the client,
developing its concept, arranging the tour, preparing the content,
designing individual exhibitions, managing installations,
presenting the lecture, initiating new collaborations and projects.
The book's focus on a single touring exhibition is unprecedented;
it explores what typical exhibition catalogues miss entirely -
spatial engagement with the content by the public. In its attempt
to present various aspects of a single exhibition the book raises
fundamental curatorial issues beyond the project in question.
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China Dialogues (Paperback)
Vladimir Belogolovsky, Kenneth Frampton, Crisie Yuan, Tjup
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R516
Discovery Miles 5 160
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Since the mid-1990s, when China allowed its architects to practice
independently from government-run design institutes, a new kind of
architecture, distinguished by unique regional characteristics, has
emerged. China Dialogues is a rigorously selected collection of
insightful interviews that the book's author Vladimir Belogolovsky
has conducted with 21 leading Chinese architects during his
extensive travels in China. At the time when so many buildings that
are being built around the world are no longer rooted in their
place and culture, the leading Chinese architects succeeded
collectively in producing unique architectural body of work that
could not be confused with any other regional school. The
interviews are accompanied by over 120 photographs and drawings of
beautifully executed projects built throughout China since early
2000s. China Dialogues opens up the thinking process of the
country's top architects, as they share their ideas, insights,
intentions, and visions in unusually revealing and candid ways.
The ideas of architects are usually conveyed by their buildings.
Vladimir Belogolovsky takes a different approach in his new work.
The New York based author gives a detailed picture of contemporary
architects - through words. The publication consisting of almost
600 pages presents interviews with 30 architects, which
Belogolovsky conducted in the framework of his long-term,
international activities as a curator and author. The names of the
interviewees read like a "Who-is-Who" of modern architecture.The
fame surrounding these avant-garde masters has eclipsed merely
professional circles and reached the conscience of the wide general
public. Their iconic work has attracted so much attention over the
last years in the mass media that it is often referred to as
Starchitecture. Interviews with: David Adjaye, Will Alsop,
Alejandro Aravena, Shigeru Ban, Elizabeth Diller, Winka Dubbeldam,
Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Bjarke
Ingels, Kengo Kuma, Daniel Libeskind, Jurgen Hermann Mayer,
Giancarlo Mazzanti, Richard Meier, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Glenn
Murcutt, Gregg Pasquarelli, Joshua Prince-Ramus, Wolf Prix, Kevin
Roche, Robert Stern, Sergei Tchoban and Sergey Kuznetsov, Bernard
Tschumi, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Rafael Vinoly,
Alexandro Zaera-Polo.
This architectural guide brings together 100 of the most original
structures built in New York City since 1999. Vladimir Belogolovsky
pairs them with such nicknames as Guillotine, Peacock, Shark's Fin,
Turtle Shell, and Woodpecker. The New York-based author's selection
covers buildings realized by the world's most renowned architects
in a period when their creations were celebrated as art, and
personal styles were encouraged by the media, critics, and clients.
The featured time span begins with the rise of the starchitect in
the late 1990s and ends in the present day. But the mission of the
book is not only to document; it is also to celebrate New York's
transformative energy. Many of the buildings were designed either
by foreign architects or those who settled in the city and now call
it home. Through witty, incisive commentary, catchy nicknames, and
quotes from the author's interviews with the architects, this
singular guide allows readers to see many of New York's
contemporary icons in a new way.
Peter Eisenman's architecture carries many layers and meanings; one
question leads to the next and one conversation provokes another.
Vladimir Belogolovsky's new book highlights three separate
conversations he had with the architect at his New York City
studio. These conversations are part of the author's ongoing
interview project he initiated in 2002, discussing architecture
with over 100 leading international architects. Peter Eisenman is
in the bloodline of Palladio, Le Corbusier, and Robert Venturi, and
in this book of brutally honest conversations between him and
critic Vladimir Belogolovsky pithy assertions emerge, sometimes in
contradiction, as Belogolovosky sympathetically questions this
authority, one whose deep commitment to his art, over fifty years,
has helped change contemporary architecture. (...) Eisenman bemoans
the fact that celebrity architects have supplanted such
authorities, that is, authors of a critical architecture that
reflects on its own language. All art languages must do this, an
important insight of semiotics in the 1960s when Eisenman first
started critical practice.. (Charles Jencks).
Artistic Bedfellows is an international interdisciplinary
collection of historical essays, critical papers, case studies,
interviews, and comments from scholars and practitioners that shed
new light on the growing field of collaborative art. This
collection examines the field of collaborative art broadly, while
asking specific questions with regard to the issues of
interdisciplinary and cultural difference, as well as the
psychological and political complexity of collaboration. The
diversity of approach is needed in the current multimedia and cross
disciplinarily world of art. This reader is designed to stimulate
thought and discussion for anyone interested in this growing field
and practice.
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