Sentences with phrase «contemporary architectural history»

Sylvia Lavin is a leading figure in contemporary architectural history, theory, and criticism.

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His work is contemporary not because of its rejection of the past but through its judicious and organic development of history's architectural best.

Overflowing with cultural and architectural detail, the tapestries contain a social history of Essex and modern Britain that reflects Firstsite's year - long focus on contemporary identity.

An instructor at Pratt since 1999, Vigneri - Beane teaches a range of studios and media courses for both incoming and upper - level students that explore relationships among contemporary design techniques, architectural categories of production, and the history of discourse in the discipline.

Reinterpreting Malevič, Tatlin, El Lisitzky and other key exponents of these movements allowed Pardi to take the still vital elements of these artistic directions and become one of the most active and qualified representatives of the history of contemporary painting and sculpture.This extensive retrospective illustrates the development of Pardi's explorations at every phase, from the first depictions of architectural interiors and exteriors of the 1960s, such as the Environments and Hanging Gardens, to subsequent works from the 1970s, which he named Architectures.The series Diagonals are from the early 1980s and consist of straight lines whose tight rhythm oscillates between black and white to a search for new montages and movements.

Edited by Adam Lerner, it is published by Princeton Architectural Press and features a foreword by filmmaker Wes Anderson and essays by Lerner, Maria Elena Buszek, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Colorado, Denver; Cary Levine, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; artist Shepard Fairey; and Steven Wolf, a San Francisco - based writer and curator.

In earlier works, Attie has used contemporary media to re-animate architectural and public sites with images of their lost histories, and how histories of marginalized and forgotten communities may be visually introduced into the physical landscape of the present.

The OMA partner's new book Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession takes an idiosyncratic look at architectural history and dissects contemporary practice.