Sentences with phrase «modernist architecture within»

Instead, it's an elaborate puzzle or optimistic historical and ideological Russian doll that situates one form of Modernist architecture within another via a contemporary performative twist.

Not exact matches

Conveniently situated within Barcelona's modern Eixample district, along the bustling Passieg de Gracia, Casa Mila or La Pedrera as it is also known showcases some truly exceptional modernist architecture.

One may be tempted to situate Commito within a modernist lineage celebrating the machine and the city (think Italian Futurism or American Precisionism), but Commito is more interested in entropy and folk architecture than paeans to progress.

[67] Many aspects of modernist design still persist within the mainstream of contemporary architecture, though previous dogmatism has given way to a more playful use of decoration, historical quotation, and spatial drama.

In Prismatic Park, McElheny continues his examination of the way the transparency of glass is strongly linked to ideas within Modernist art, architecture, and philosophy.

As such, the new show displays photographic, painterly and sculptural elements, which continue to document the battle between nature and artificial developments,, questioning the way modernist architecture attempts to situate itself within the landscape.

Examining the aesthetics of the constructed world, Gillick's work exposes the dysfunctional aspects of a modernist legacy in terms of abstraction and architecture when framed within a globalized, neo-liberal consensus.

His work deploys multiple forms to expose the new ideological control systems that emerged at the beginning of the 1990s, exposing the dysfunctional aspects of a modernist legacy in terms of abstraction and architecture when framed within a globalized, neo-liberal consensus.

Here we see a growth of camouflaged favelas nestled within a bucolic rain forest or modernist architecture negotiating its territory in a land with a rich colonial heritage.