Sentences with phrase «best modern architects»

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The best part of the tour is the expertise and knowledge imparted by local architect and history lover Jeff Morrison, who will make those three hours fly and expose walkers to a wealth of information about Atlanta's history, now forgotten, from the significance of the railroad to modern times.

I think the architects of the Waldorf Astoria Amsterdam have taken the best of the old and the new and created a luxurious respite for the modern traveller.

Architecture Designed by the internationally - acclaimed, Bali - based, Glen Parker of «Glen Parker Architects», in collaboration with the owners who spend much of their time at the property, Villa Jaja - Liluna is a masterpiece that blends the very best of modern Balinese architectural elements with elegant finishes and superior amenities.

PIERRE CHAREAU: MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN Best known for his 1932 House of Glass in Paris, the architect Pierre Chareau (1883 - 1950) was also an avid collector of Mondrian, Chagall and Modigliani.

Like good sadomasochists, modern architects from Oscar Niemeyer to Eero Saarinen have known that tough materials can be sensual.

Most recently, in 2013, a major bequest from Houston architect and Menil Trustee William F. Stern added notable drawings by Mel Bochner, Donald Judd, Sherrie Levine, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Richard Tuttle, and others to the MDI, as well as an endowment for acquisitions of modern and contemporary drawing.

Celebration and critique are two approaches that often run parallel in much of Hamilton's best work, including Fun House, an installation he created with architect John Voelker and artist John McHale for the seminal This is Tomorrow exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in 1956, an exhibition now only famous for the collage that heralded the birth of Pop art, Hamilton's Just what is is that makes the modern home so different, so appealing?.

During the early 1910s, as well as teaching himself photography on a five dollar Brownie camera, and undertaking photographic commissions for local architects, he also showed his paintings at important group shows, including the International Exhibition of Modern Art (Armory Show)(1913), the Forum Exhibition (1916), and the Society of Independent Artist's Exhibition (1917).

Additionally, Tony Salamé presented details of the Foundation with assistance from former director of the Modern Art Museum of California Jeffrey Deitch, Massimiliano Gioni, the director of the New Museum New York as well as David Adjaye, architect of the Aishti Foundation.

The landmarked building designed by architect Marcel Breuer in 1966 will provide additional space for the Metropolitan Museum of Art to highlight modern and contemporary art exhibitions that showcase the full - range of the Museum's collection, as well as new commissions and performances.

A major retrospective, entitled: «Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor», was organized at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1998, featuring his architecture and painting, as well as his sculpture.

MOCO LOCO obsessively chronicles the latest work of the best modern and contemporary designers and architects worldwide.

One of the big attractions of modern prefab housing was the fact that architects and builders got to repeat and refine their designs; every iteration got a little bit better.

The goal: to make well - designed, energy efficient, modern houses more affordable, thus available to more people, says Josh Capistrant of Alchemy Architects, a St. Paul, Minn., company that designs WeeHouses, modular homes that are almost entirely pre-assembled before they arrive on - site (pictured above).