Sentences with phrase «late modern architecture»

It matters that others, too, are looking for alternatives to late modern architecture and institutions, like plans for Long Island City and suburbia.

Not exact matches

The New York Times recently called Buffalo «home to some of the greatest American architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries» and on another occasion «a textbook for a course in modern American buildings.»

But the F - Type looks fresh, its lightweight architecture is modern through and through, and it is composed of the latest materials.

Aside from its spy - laden history, the hotel offers late Victorian architecture, modern rooms, a clubby bar and afternoon tea.

It marries the old and the new — a late 20th century building with architecture from the Dutch Golden Age — interlocking modern luxury and historical elegance.

Later on, LeWitt was hired in one architecture office as a graphic designer and of the crucial importance for his career was the engagement at the Museum of Modern Art where he was introduced to the work of Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Jasper Johns.

Hélio Oiticica, detail of Tropicália (1967) Tropicália is an incredible exhibition — the first comprehensive survey of one of the most significant chapters in modern cultural history, a period beginning in the late 1960s when daring experiments in Brazilian art, music, film, architecture and theater converged.

Charlotte Perriand Considered one of the most in uential gures in design and architecture from the early Modern movement, Charlotte Perriand (1903 - 1999) was instrumental in introducing the «machine age» aesthetic to interior design through the steel, aluminium and glass furniture she created at Le Corbusier's studio in the late 1920s and 1930s.

Later, he similarly telescoped politics, civilisations and time in a series of three - dimensional works, titled Desperately Seeking Paradise, by splicing Lahore's humble streets and houses with the architecture of modern skyscrapers.

Nathan Coley In his latest work, this artist fascinated by architecture and the public sphere imagines a fire at Tate Modern.

The latest exhibition of famed modern architecture photographer Ezra Stoller takes place at Yossi Milo Gallery in Chelsea.

Later, the centre of modern building design was established permanently in the United States, mainly due to the advent of supertall skyscraper architecture, which was then exported around the globe.

Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, influencing the likes of I.M. Pei, Lawrence Halprin and Paul Rudolph, among others; Herbert Bayer organized and designed a major exhibition of Bauhaus work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1938 - 9; Mies van der Rohe relocated to Chicago, where he enjoyed the patronage of Philip Johnson (1906 - 2005)- one of the most influential American architects of his day, with whom he later designed the landmark Seagram Building - and became one of the leading figures in American architecture; Moholy - Nagy also settled in Chicago and set up the New Bauhaus school with philanthropist Walter Paepcke.

Modern American Housing brings together the most enlightened thinkers from the worlds of architecture, social practice, and real estate development to present the latest developments in the design and construction of new housing stock in re-urbanizing cities throughout the United States.

It's an area that's been recently rediscovered by Los Angeles» beautiful people, its modern architecture having fallen out of favour since its late 1950s and early 1960s heyday.