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Light Construction
Transparency and luminescence have reemerged in the vocabulary of architecture, and light and "lightness" have become key concepts for a significant number of contemporary architects, as well as artists who create installations. Recent work by these designers recalls the use of transparent materials in early modern structures, but they have introduced new ideas and technical solutions. In doing so, they have redefined the relationship between the observer and the structure by interposing elements that both veil and illuminate. In this architecture of lightness, buildings become intangible, structures shed their weight and facades become unstable, dissolving into an often luminous evanescence...
Stud
Twenty-six visual projects and essays explore the role architecture plays in the construction of both heterosexual and homosexual male identity. While examining such environments as the bachelor apartment, the gym, and the men's restroom, contributors provide arguments about the structure of identity, the gendering of space, and the fabrication of masculine identities at specific sites and at precise moments in history. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Objects of Design from the Museum of Modern Art
Table of Contents Foreword 6 Preface 7 Acknowledgments 9 Objects of Design 10 Plates 23 1 Turning Points 24 2 Machine Art 46 3 A Modern Ideal 70 4 Useful Objects 94 5 Modern Nature 122 6 Mind over Matter 150 7 Good Design 186 8 Good Design for Industry 218 9 The Object Transformed 248 Photograph Credits 283 Index 285 Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art 288.
The International Style
Ter gelegenheid van een tentoonstelling in de Arthur Ross Architectural Gallery, Buell Hall van 9 maart tot 2 mei 1992.
Building Desire
An in-depth look at the unique Barcelona Pavilion, its many and complex identities through history, and its enduring appeal.
The Un-private House
"This book looks at twenty-six houses by an international roster of contemporary architects"--P. [4] of cover.
The Architecture of Use
By analyzing ten examples of buildings that embody the human experience at an extraordinary level, this book clarifies the central importance of the role of function in architecture as a generative force in determining built form. Using familiar twentieth-century buildings as case studies, the authors present these from a new perspective, based on their functional design concepts. Here Grabow and Spreckelmeyer expand the definition of human use to that of an art form by re-evaluating these buildings from an aesthetic and ecological view of function. Each building is described from the point of view of a major functional concept or idea of human use which then spreads out and influences the spatial organization, built form and structure. In doing so each building is presented as an exemplar that reaches beyond the pragmatic concerns of a narrow program and demonstrates how functional concepts can inspire great design, evoke archetypal human experience and help us to understand how architecture embodies the deeper purposes and meanings of everyday life.
Imagining the Future of the Museum of Modern Art
Edited by John Elderfield. Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry.
Welcome to the Dreamhouse
DIVHistorical and theoretical essays on television and media culture by a leading feminist studies scholar./div
