Sentences with phrase «by modernist architecture»

SK: I like to think that my paintings are somewhat informed by Modernist architecture.

Inspired by Modernist architecture, Cubism and the Arts and Crafts movement, Bohl's work is well known for its highly effective and quasi-theatrical use of space.

His drawings and sculptures cohere to form a visual response to the environment created by modernist architecture, its subsequent failures and the aesthetics of regularity and repetition.

Describing themselves as an agency that enjoys a special bond with architecture, typography and paper — they have created many other paper cut - outs inspired by modernist architecture, including a set that celebrates London's own Brutalist estates.

Lee Bul, who will be the summer exhibition, is really fascinated by modernist architecture and by utopian architecture and she loves this building.

A founding member of Anarchitecture, a group that criticized the excesses of architecture, Matta - Clark's work frequently critiqued the historical destruction caused by modernist architecture as an outgrowth of capitalism.

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Every urban reform movement of the past 200 years — from England's Hygiene Acts to America's City Beautiful Movement to modern zoning laws to modernist architecture to the creation of public housing and the rise of environmentalism and historic preservation — has been a response to the social and cultural problems created by industrialism.

Remaining fascinated by definitions of postmodernism and conservatism, and always returning to the notions of sentiment and «anti-ideology,» to view all the brutal ugliness and inhumanity of what might legitimately be classified as «modernist» (architecture and literature first....

The modernists envisioned the new democratic man, freed of architectural shackles, rising to his mountaintop aeries — like Koenig's Case Study House 22, immortalized by architecture photographer Julius Shulman.

Offended by the values built into historical styles in architecture, the modernists eliminated those styles.

The Hoosier Award, which recognizes a significant cinematic contribution by a person or persons with roots in Indiana, or a film that depicts Hoosier State locales and stories, went to «Columbus,» the debut feature film of director Kogonada, which was set and shot in the southern Indiana city noted for its Modernist architecture.

So he does exactly that, using countless features taking place (or shot) in Los Angeles to show the development of the city, as well as how decisions on and off the screen impact each other (one of my favourite parts: when Andersen explains how the city's modernist architecture was devalued by having the movies always associate the look with antagonists).

Barcelona's modernist architecture, much of it designed by Antoni Gaudi, is world famous and some appear to be sculptures rather than buildings.

A jewel of modernist architecture in Barcelona, the building was designed by the influential Catalan architect, Lluís Domenech i Montaner, and the name Casa Fuster translates into the House of the Carpenter.

Brainchild of designer - founder Melanie Hall whose portfolio is greatly influenced by her father's modernist architecture, the rooms at Luna2 are named after their five different colour schemes, namely green, orange, purple, red and yellow — applied either to the décor, wallpaper, art pieces, furniture and linens.

It's worth visiting Gdynia on a weekend trip to Gdansk, it's only half an hour away by train and you can see modernist architecture, maritime attractions or go hiking in the local Nature Reserve.

Sagmeister suggests that much of this «ugliness» in architecture was thanks to the work of Viennese Modernist Adolf Loos being «wilfully misunderstood» by the next generation of architects, who he says «covered the world with the psychotic sameness we still suffer from to this day.»

He captures the sunny, laid - back personality of this region by portraying modernist architecture, street food culture and strong Mexican influences, and his work is filled with plenty of character.

When, influenced by Joseph Beuys, he mocks modernist architecture, it explodes.

Enhanced by elements of surrealism and abstraction, her oeuvre responds to past forms of conceptualism, current art trends, interior design, and modernist architecture.

In addition, FIAC will develop the presence of important modernist and contemporary architectures with exceptional projects by Jean Prouvé, Christian de Portzamparc and Hans - Walter Müller, among others, installed on the Esplanade des Feuillants that borders the Rue de Rivoli.

Cited as the first truly Modernist building of the Americas, this large complex features contributions by a variety of Brazilian artists, architects, and designers (including the influential landscape architect Roberto Brule Marx, currently the subject of a solo show at the Jewish Museum in New York) all organized by the famed, controversial godfather of 20th - century architecture himself, Le Corbusier.

Ruby is influenced by a wide range of sources, including marginalized societies, maximum - security prisons, modernist architecture, artefacts and antiquities, graffiti, waste and consumption, and urban gangs.

He is an immaculate painter, working carefully by hand with tape and a drywall blade to create seamless planes that seem at once solid and transparent, referential to the modernist architecture that dots the Southern California landscape and to the iconic «light and space» artists and West Coast hard edge abstractionists (Larry Bell, Frederic Hammersley, Robert Irwin, John McLaughlin) who have engaged with these peculiarities and particularities of atmosphere and surface in their work.

By extension of Modernist architectural history — specifically that of the eras of Russian Constructivist and Brutalist architecture and their influence on American urbanism — Andrade conjures the legacy of the town square as a place of hybrid activity involving intellectual dialogue, contemplation, political ideology, commerce, protest, civic duty, celebration, violence and more.

Ornament has generally been considered taboo in modernist art and architecture — certainly by the Bauhaus — but Stella was perceptive enough to realize that geometrical ornament was actually pre-20th-century abstract art.

Other recent projects by Zimmerman include Observatory / Projector (Metropolis), a mashup model of modernist architecture which projects a constellation of glowing abstract form on the ceiling and walls around it.

First it was the language of modernist minimalism, then the loft, then the blockbuster — the urban icon, followed by the factory and the power station more recently the ubiquitous architecture of the pop - up, the tent and the pavilion.

Between January 18th and March 1st, artist Rob Voerman will transform Upstream Gallery into one big art installation inspired by the ideology behind modernist architecture.

One of the final buildings designed by prolific modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 — 1969), the 1968 Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin has long fascinated art and architecture lovers alike.

In the Dutch Pavilion, this argument is taken up more directly in two films by Wendelien van Oldenborgh that use modernist architecture as a framework to think about inclusivity and erasure in postwar, postcolonial Dutch society (Prologue: Squat / Anti-Squat, 2016, and Cinema Olanda, 2017).

Modernism: On and Off the Grid, curated by Niko Vicario, brings together works engaged with the legacy of Modernist architecture and design.

The first is a gated summer resort in Alexandria called Maamoura built by the state shortly after Gamal Abdel Nasser came to power to accommodate the new elite of the «rebranded» (post-1952) Egypt, a significant yet painfully understudied monument of modernist architecture in Egypt.

Twenty years ago this month, visitors streamed to a Brentwood mountaintop to see the brand new Getty Center, featuring breathtaking vistas, sky - lit galleries, dramatic modernist architecture by Richard Meier, and the always - changing Central Garden, created by artist Robert Irwin.

He created iconic images of some of the most celebrated works of Mid-Century Modern architecture including buildings by Modernist masters Rudolph Schindler, Craig Ellwood, Louis Kahn, A. Quincy Jones and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Designed by architects Smith & Thompson, the critically acclaimed modernist - inspired structure of glass and Cor - ten steel is included in a number of books about contemporary architecture, and has attracted attention from all over the world.

Los Angeles - Twenty years ago this month, visitors streamed to a Brentwood mountaintop to see the brand new Getty Center, featuring breathtaking vistas, sky - lit galleries, dramatic modernist architecture by Richard Meier, and the always - changing Central Garden, created by artist Robert Irwin.

The Fifth Wall is inspired by multiple sources: the unique architecture of the Armory's Raymond Avenue building; German modernist theater practitioner Bertolt Brecht's notion of dialectical theater; and artwork that challenges the authority of a fixed point of view and suggests a deeper form of reciprocal engagement.

Located in the heart of Chelsea, the gallery's three story modernist - inspired structure designed by architects Smith & Thompson boasts one of the few outdoor sculpture gardens in New York City, and is included in a number of books about contemporary architecture.

It is a garden for meditation and reflection surrounded by rather heavy modernist architecture.

Inspired by histories of modernist abstraction, architecture and the perceptual and organizational structures of nature, Mangrané's work encompasses drawing, sculpture, light, and film elaborated as part of poetically scripted environmental spaces.

Influenced by calligraphy, architecture, and poetry, he subverts the conventions of modernist sculptural practice by creating small, eccentrically playful objects in humble, fragile materials.

Other works on display include Seher Shah's graphite on paper drawings, Brutalist Traces (2015 - 16), of the modernist architecture of New Delhi; artist Gauri Gill's notebooks entitled «1984» (2005, 2009, 2014), from which are also displayed several photographs of the people and interior spaces of the «Widows Colony» in Tilak Vihar, where families affected by the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 were provided housing by the state; and a series of streetscape photographs by Pablo Bartholomew, including Man Asleep in Front of Political Graffiti, Calcutta (1978) which embodies how, in South Asia, history inflects the everyday.

More than just as a reference point but rather, because he was the most important American architecture photographer of the post-war period and his images of modernist houses built by Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry are artistic icons in their own right, more than 50 photographs by Julius Shulman are included in the exhibition.

This artist has grown up in a place where there are full - scale utopias, their thinking has been profoundly influenced by Brazilian modernist architecture and even more, by its contrast with the visible at the foot of its buildings precariousness.

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.

I was also struck by the formal parallels between this very pure kind of painting and the Modernist architecture going on at the same time.

«The title of the exhibition references the name given to the style of modernist architecture conceived by Barragán and the artist Mathias Goéritz, who, frustrated by the cold functionalism of modernism, embraced space, colour and light to create buildings that engendered warmth, meditation, and reflection,» said Sean Kelly Gallery, which will show the images later this month.

He was visually inspired by the Soviet Modernist architecture — originally built in 1968 — in transition.

The title of the exhibition references the name given to the style of modernist architecture conceived by Barragán and the artist Mathias Goéritz, who, frustrated by the cold functionalism of Modernism, embraced space, color and light to create buildings that engendered warmth, meditation, and reflection.