Pictures and videos to discover the building designed by Frank O. Gehry, an iconic 20th -
century architectural work.
Not exact matches
He founded the City Planning Commission and
worked with other organizing bodies to enforce building codes and
architectural standards at the advent of the 20th
century, demanding that all new construction conform to modern safety guidelines.
Following the hotel's large scale
architectural restoration of $ 139 million in 2008, this multi-million dollar renovation led by Chicago - based firm The Gettys Group refreshes the original
work of renowned Chicago
architectural firm Marshall and Fox, highlighting the early twenty - first
century grandeur and craftsmanship while incorporating state - of - the - art technology and modern amenities.
At Home at the White House Nov. 1:
Architectural Digest magazine releases its December issue with a cover story exploring the selection of 20th and 21st
century art displayed on the walls of the Obama private White House residence, including
works by African American artists Alma Thomas, Glenn Ligon, and William H. Johnson, as well as Susan Rothenberg, Sam Francis, Hans Hofmann, Giorgio Morandi, Robert Mangold, Sean Scully, among others.
In deciphering the
work, there is a need to refer to sculpture's spatial development in the twentieth -
century that combines sculptural form and
architectural space with artworks that deconstruct, subvert and transform architecture.
Featuring approximately 200 paintings, sculptures,
works on paper, photographs, decorative arts,
architectural and landscape designs, costumes, and popular culture ephemera — dating from the late 18th
century to the present day — VMFA's landmark exhibition expands the chronological and geographic boundaries of the regionally diverse, multicultural revival.
Spurred by its recent
architectural makeover, the past - loving Morgan Library & Museum has decided to bring new life to its illustrious collection of
works on paper by expanding it into the 20th and 21st
centuries.
[19] The
works of Ludwig Schaffrath demonstrate the late 20th -
century trends in the use of stained glass for
architectural purposes, filling entire walls with coloured and textured glass.
Beginning with early 20th
century paintings by French artist Suzanne Valadon and ending with
works by up - to - the - minute figures such as Japan's Mariko Mori, Switzerland's Pipilotti Rist and England's Rachel Whiteread, «elles» will offer an international array of paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, photographs, prints, videos, furniture and
architectural models.
From her investigation into the notion of artificial beauty to references of futuristic
architectural ideas from the early 20th
century, Korean artist Lee Bul has, over the past two decades, garnered international renown with a diverse and intellectually challenging body of
work that includes sculptures, performances and installations, while always maintaining an intriguing relationship with modernist ideals.
Two sections focus on architecture; «Architecture and Design: New trends in the Eighties and Nineties» is a general overview of the
architectural scene in late 20th
century, particularly in Europe and the Far East, while another section is specifically dedicated to the
work of Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.
Architecture and Its Image: Four
Centuries of
Architectural Representation,
Works from the Collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, February 18 - April 22, 1990
The
work invites visitors inside to experience what the artist describes as a «sonic simulacrum» of
architectural spaces and landscapes; interwoven is a layered narrative of modernity and historical memory emerging from the complex relationship between Korea and Japan in the 20th
century.
Photographs of the exhibition «Architecture and Its Image: Four
Centuries of
Architectural Representation,
Works from the Collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture,» February 18 - April 22, 1990, held at the Dallas Museum of Art.
I also started
working with Esto, a commercial photography agency, founded by the preeminent
architectural photographer of the twentieth
century, Ezra Stoller.
My current
work references early 20th
century abstract art and design to develop a visual language in response to the fast shifting streetscapes and
architectural spaces of contemporary London and its ever present half - built skyscrapers.
Group exhibitions and collaborative projects in recent years are Llocs comuns, Can Felipa Arts Visual, Barcelona, ES (2014); Systems Thinking from the Inside, 21st
Century, Chisenhale Gallery, London; Total Vitality (by Julia Tcharfas), Bold Tendencies, London; Recent
Work by Artists, Auto Italia, London; A Space Base, for Instance, [space], London (all 2013); The Biopolitical City (by Tim Ivison),
Architectural Association, London; Summer School: The Eltham Open curated by Alex Ross, Gerald Moore Gallery, London; (On) Accordance, or-bits.com; ROCRO, MACRO, Rome IT; Echo - System, Helsinki World Design Capital, commissioned by the British Council (all 2012); For Inclusion in the Syllabi, Pigeon Wing, London; Rules of Engagement, Angus - Hughes, London; (Architecture in Words Only), Hilary Crisp, London (all 2011); New Wight Biennial: New Romance, UCLA Department of Art, Los Angeles US; Counter Constructs, Auto - Italia South East, London; No Soul For Sale, Panel discussion with members of The Suburban, Vox Populi, and Auto - Italia South East at Tate Modern, London; Utopia and Nature, Residency ASFA, Crete, Greece (all 2010).
For many
centuries, artists have directly reacted to
architectural contexts and attempted to blur or even dissolve established boundaries between visual art, architecture, and design with their
works.
She is at
work on two books, one on abstraction and design in the twentieth
century and the other, with IIT
architectural historian Sean Keller, on the art and architecture of the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Working in a large scale, Mehretu draws on the 21st -
century city for inspiration, transferring its energy into her gestural sweeps of paint and built - up marks in ink and pencil — often transposed from projections — and condensing seemingly infinite urban narratives,
architectural views, and street plans into single unified compositions.
In her recent
work, she samples elements not only from walks, but also historical representations of landscape, nineteenth
century pictorial maps and speculative
architectural design.
Many of his
works are modelled on
architectural fragments: Mandorla, of 1949, derives from the upper facade of the 12th -
century cathedral in Poitiers, while the shadows of railings on steps determined the pattern of the La Combe series of 1950 - 51.
Starting with eighteenth -
century French
architectural painting and passing by Charles Burchfield's starved landscapes, the show placed contemporary
works of ecotrauma by Pierre Huyghe, Erin Shirreff, Alexis Rockman, and Mark Dion alongside an indelible video from Fukushima, in which an unknown worker in a hazmat suit points at the camera for long minutes: a speechless, unanswerable indictment.
Designed by
architectural practice DHK, the purpose - built suburban museum will focus on 20th and 21st
century art, with a bias towards South African
work.
Encompassing photography, sculpture, sound, LED light boxes, film, video installations,
architectural interventions, and live performances called «happenings», Aitken's
work testifies to his continuing engagement with the myriad of art forms available to the artist in the 21st
century.
For a new body of
work he has turned his attention to iconic modernist architecture of the 20th
century, paying homage to the design and
architectural achievements of Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gerrit Rietveld, and Mies van der Rohe.
Repeated., at Andrew Kreps Gallery, includes twenty - three
works from the early 1970s that, even within that restricted time frame, ranged widely in media and style: lithographs, latex impressions of
architectural details and surfaces, rubbings, neon sculpture, cloth hangings, and restored 19th -
century paintings that anticipate»80s - style appropriation.