Sentences with phrase «modernism in architecture»

(New York, US) André Komatsu, along with many other Latin - American and Caribbean artists such as Alexander Apostol, Quisqueya Henriquez and Daniela Ortiz, was invited to this exhibition with the aim of assessing the effects of modernism in architecture, urbanism and arts in their places of origin.

Together, the film «Substance», the sculptural grid fragments, and the object at the Metropolitan Museum engage a multi-layered conversation between histories of exhibition sites; concepts of public space and private property; and the paradoxical legacies of historicism and modernism in architecture and design.

Josiah McElheny's artwork has often investigated the history of twentieth century modernism in architecture and design, in the hope of expanding on the dominant historical narrative and the criticality of our relationship to it.

But modernism in architecture does not work well as organizing aesthetic for public spaces, in large part, I think, because it's visual vocabulary is very limited.

I'm not opposed to modernism in architecture, not by any means.

Not exact matches

Neoclassical to Art Deco to Modernism, take your kids (and yourself) back in time through the eyes of architecture — and legos.

The schools» transition from stately, which was characteristic of the early 20th century, to sterile has several explanations: the spread of modernism generally, the devaluation of public architecture in particular (city halls have been victims too), the physical growth of schools through both district consolidation and population increase, and fiscal pressures in the public sector.

It comes with an abundance of lakes, a tortured coastline of bays and inlets, an archipelago of 330 islands, splendid «human modernism» architecture created by designer Alvar Aalto and the general ability to excel in the world of no - fuss design.

Opened in 2014, The Tint is a superb hotel designed in a style blending colonial architecture and modernism.

Text by Juliet Koss, Associate Professor of Art History at Scripps College in Claremont, California, is the author of Modernism after Wagner (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), a finalist for the College Art Association's Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, along with numerous essays on 19th - and 20th - century German and Soviet art, architecture, and related fields.

Pierluigi has lectured in museums and institutions of higher learning on postwar American architecture, California Modernism and architectural photography.

Vision in Motion animates an Australian history of modernism, presenting a survey of Jubelin's intricately sewn petit points of the past three decades alongside newly commissioned works inspired by architecture and the built environment.

Perez, whose work celebrates the metaphorical and cultural significance of the International Style of architecture, has recently become interested in the reflective surfaces that characterize these icons of Modernism.

The theme of this year's exhibition is the complex relationship that ties art, design and architecture together in an age thought to have moved beyond modernism.

(It was a while later, and not so locally, that Modernism appeared in music and architecture).»

Modernism, in general, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, philosophy, social organization, activities of daily life, and even the sciences, were becoming ill - fitted to their tasks and outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an emerging fully industrialized world.

As an essential figure in Brazilian Modernism, Artigas was lauded for a personal style based on Le Corbusier's legacy and Frank Lloyd Wright's organic architecture.

The architecture takes on a symbolic value thanks to the writing, and it is the signs that create the field of correspondences... In Learning from Las Vegas, Venturi / Brown / Izenour proclaimed the sign as being the organizing element of movements in space, and they succeeded in demonstrating the ways in which modernism uses graphic signs and symbols so that space can be oriented in a precise directioIn Learning from Las Vegas, Venturi / Brown / Izenour proclaimed the sign as being the organizing element of movements in space, and they succeeded in demonstrating the ways in which modernism uses graphic signs and symbols so that space can be oriented in a precise directioin space, and they succeeded in demonstrating the ways in which modernism uses graphic signs and symbols so that space can be oriented in a precise directioin demonstrating the ways in which modernism uses graphic signs and symbols so that space can be oriented in a precise directioin which modernism uses graphic signs and symbols so that space can be oriented in a precise directioin a precise direction.

In its meeting of utopian Modernism, defunct municipal architecture and natural landscape it is also deeply melancholic.

Through the symbiotic relationship between the paintings and the buildings he has observed, Araujo informs the way we think about architecture and Modernism in general.

«Nivola had a keen, prescient interest in the possibilities of integrating sculpture and architecture and to this end he collaborated with architects Eero Saarinen, Jose Luis Sert and Marcel Breuer in making unique sand cast and carved cement bas - reliefs at the height of modernism.

Transformation, travel, memory, landscape, modernism, architecture, ethnography, as well as the photograph, the moving image, the handcrafted object, the presence of the body, and painting are themes brought to bear by the artworks in the exhibition.

The forms have the purity of modernism when art and architecture were together seen as one essential necessity in life, just at the time when the way people worked the land was undergoing its final transformation through to mechanisation.

Reminiscent of office cubicles, barriers, waiting areas and processes of renovation, they operate as semi-autonomous abstractions and reiterate Gillick's interest in the legacy of «applied modernism», the two way movement between utilitarian design and modernist art and architecture.

With their collage of quotidian materials, their vertical orientation reminiscent of skyscrapers (albeit in miniature), and their use of a sculptural idiom, the columns are typical of Genzken's approach, for although her oeuvre is heterogeneous, architecture, sculpture, modernism, and the readymade remain touchstones of her artistic practice.

He continues: «Matisse's late work does contribute quite prominently, if not iconically, to a certain strand in the conjunction of modernism and abstraction which blurs the distinction between art and design, and more specifically between abstract painting and the decorative and applied arts... I've always considered Matisse's greatest contribution to art not his colour, which is undoubtedly exceptional, but his inventive painterly architectures reasserting what [painting] does (what, in a way, it has always done), what it delivers, by the act of continual reinvention; finding yet more new ways to keep it alive — and of course, keep it keenly separate from design and the applied arts even when in the act of using elements of those very disciplines to elaborate and enrich the spatial structures of his painting.»

Revising Modernisms in the Gulf Region: Mini-Symposium with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi 13 March 2018 During his residency at Delfina Foundation, collector Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi uses Ala Younis's current exhibition at Delfina as a starting point to discuss current research and practice around Modernisms in art, architecture and urban space.

He says their projects draw on diverse sources, from Mies van der Rohe to the steel blade sculptures of Richard Serra; the inheritance of Catalan modernism to the Zen gardens of Kyoto, exploring «a middle ground between architecture, landscape and abstract sculpture and in the process heightening the perception of the natural world.»

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Mies van der Rohe's iconic masterpiece, a landmark of Modernism, was built during a decade in which his ground - breaking architecture literally surpassed the ordinary.

This London - based solo exhibition records an ongoing concern with the notion of architecture as an environment for recreation, in a new body of work that contrasts the modernism of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with Brohm's study of vernacular German allotment buildings of the late 1970s, Typology.

Trained in architecture and design, and drawing on the history of Latin American Modernism, Sierra connects the perception of forms and materials to the construction of language, communication, and knowledge.

11:30 am: Panel 3: Exhibition Focus: «Learning from Latin America: Art, Architecture and Visions of Modernism» This exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 2017 - 18, will feature the work of 30 contemporary artists from Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela, among other countries, who have engaged with the history of modernist architecture in Latin America.

I am a lover of Modernism, in all its guises, music architecture, and art.

Winstanley has long been interested in a particular moment in English post-War architecture: a generic modernism that displays a somewhat dreary interpretation of a utopian vision.

ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner, editor Susan Morgan, artist Thomas Lawson, architect Peter de Bretteville, and Architectural Archives Curator William Whitaker, along with special guests celebrated East of Borneo's inaugural publication, Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader, the first collection of writings by this seminal chronicler of Southern California modernism, and ICA's latest exhibition catalogue, Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry, which explores the potential of geometry in Tyng's architecture and teaching.

Drawing on the visual language of architecture and functional design, Djordjadze creates sculptural environments that foreground the lasting legacy of Modernism while evoking the vernacular and folk traditions native to the Caucasus region in the Republic of Georgia.

Calvin Seibert erects these unbelievable geometric sandcastles with roots in brutalist architecture and modernism.

The exhibition spans the entire career of Bernard Rudofsky (1905 1988), including his roots in the early years of European modernism; his world travels, which shaped his views as a designer and critic; and his influence as a curator and writer on international discourse on architecture, fashion, and design.

Much as the dull, safe, corporate sameness of late 20th - century modernism prompted Ettore Sottsass, Michael Graves and others to explore new and provocative structures and materials in design and architecture, so, too, was Springer driven to enliven his creations with fresh and alluring energy and sleekness.