Sentences with phrase «modernist architect»

Villa Cavrois in Croix, France (below) meanwhile, which is the 1930s work of modernist architect Robert Mallet - Stevens, goes further by using a different colour on almost every surface.

Highlights from this conceptually minded show, organized by Guggenheim curator Sara Raza, include Kadar Attia's replica of a North African city that he's constructed with couscous, salt and glue to comment on French modernist architect Le Corbusier's appropriation of the region's vernacular style of design and Mariam Ghani's video installation that contrasts two modernist buildings in Afghanistan and Germany: one depicted in a state of ruin while the other is being redeveloped.

Sitting on 77 hectares of reclaimed land along Manila Bay, the Cultural Centre was designed by the modernist architect Leandro Locsin as the nucleus of Imelda Marcos» vision for «A New Society» — the rebirth of the Philippine nation under her and Ferdinand's auspices.

• I.M.Pei (b. 1917) Chinese - born modernist architect noted for Louvre Pyramid.

• Sir Norman Foster (b. 1935) High - tech modernist architect.

They feature a varied set of artistic figures, such as German - American Social Scientist Kurt Lewin, Vietnamese filmmaker Trinh T. Minh - ha, conceptual artist Lee Lozano, Colombian mathematician Antanas Mockus, Chilean video artist Juan Downey, and Italian - born Brazilian modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi, among others.

The Gladstone Gallery is currently showing eleven works of the Italian artist Marisa Merz (born in Turin, 1926) until this Saturday, February 20th, displayed inside the wonderful building of the modernist architect Edward Durell Stone.

Apprentices with modernist architect Le Corbusier.

Also on view are three new marble sculptures, including one made from the same blue stone employed by Modernist architect Adolf Loos in the Semler House in the Czech Republic.

Mori began her career working with modernist architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, designer of the IBM Building in Manhattan, New York City.

Programming includes a lecture on September 26 by Jake Gorst, the author of a recent book on his grandfather, modernist architect Andrew Geller.

Setting a major art exhibition inside modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi's former residence Casa de Vidro, or Glass House, always risked the house's lush surroundings overwhelming the art — not least due to the form of its wild gardens, a sensual jolt of jungle.

Richard Meier is an American abstract artist and Modernist architect best known for designing such iconic museums as the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Japanese modernist architect Kenzō Tange (1913 — 2005 -RCB- was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents.

Ian Kiaer This survey of the provocative sculptor's work is called Tooth House, after a project by the modernist architect Frederick Kiesler to build a house like a tooth.

Magid's current project, «The Barragán Archives,» is about the split legacy of Mexican Modernist architect Luis Barragán and the implications of corporate ownership of half a legacy.

During the last twenty years she has often been inspired by her father - a modernist architect who died in 1994 - as a source for her work.

We have the modernist architect Eugene Rosenberg to thank for the selection of these and other colour field paintings in this collection:

Admire its Gothic facade as your guide shares stories of its history and tells you about Antoni Gaudi — the Modernist architect responsible for many of the cathedral's interior features.

The one - story building, built in 1962 by desert modernist architect Albert Frey, sits on a wide street lined with palm trees.

Douglas Blain investigates, getting behind the wheel of a Perfectly Preserved Ghia - bodied example / Peter McFadyen reports from the Château Impney hill climb, the second revival of this well known speed event in the West Midlands, which has already become a highlight of the historic motoring calendar / Modernist architect Frank Lloyd Wright always had an interest in motor cars.

Days after doing the deal, he was able to prove (quite unexpectedly, he claims) that it was the very car owned originally by Voisin's friend Le Corbusier, the great modernist architect.

Modernist architect Frank Lloyd Wright always had an interest in motor cars.

Parker Posey and Eric McCormack star in this comedy about a couple who set out to build a new home and enlist the services of an uncompromising modernist architect who proceeds to build his dream house, instead of theirs.

A marble - topped LaVerne table designed by famed modernist architect Craig Ellwood is the focal point of stylist Brad Goreski's Los Angeles dining room, but we must say we love those leather sling chairs, too.

In a special irony, modernist architects were commissioned to build churches (some of which were deemed unusable by their intended occupants), and to disfigure older churches through so - called «renovation».

Modernist architects broke up interior space into ill - defined volumes, using broken wall planes and extreme ceiling shapes and angles.

One star here is Julius Shulman, whose photos depict homes built for the 1945 Case Study Houses program that saw leading Modernist architects (Eero Saarinen, Charles and Rae Eames, and Pierre Koenig, to name a few) design prototypes for mass - produced housing.

Moreover, each of them would have major modernist architects join them as allies in the search for new tectonic forms.

On display are new truncated assemblages composed of bronze, polished concrete, mirror acrylic and more, each suggesting the bold futurism sought by the Modernist architects» design of early and mid twentieth - century urban centers.

Gunnar Birkerts founded Gunnar Birkerts and Associates in 1963 and has since established a reputation as one of the country's foremost modernist architects.

Including Renaissance painters Filippino Lippi and Tintoretto and British favourite Anthony van Dyck, the works are housed in the ingenious, semi-buried picture gallery designed by the modernist architects Powell and Moya.

No surprise: The original modernist architects were taught under the same principles by the academies.

Modern architecture had high aspirations — no less than a radical change in the structure of society, or so was the hope of modernist architects.

Part of the renowned New York Five group of Modernist architects, Richard Meier (b. 1934) has led his own practice since 1963.

Modernist architects wanted to eliminate all historical references and create something entirely fresh.

The DNA of several great Modernist architects is apparent in these designs and I asked Paulius, of Arch L. «Architects that inspire our work: Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolph.»

Not exact matches

But if historical styles were immoral, and the modernist project was sagging, what was an ambitious architect to do?

Rather, this group of about 45 women and a few men are set to embark on a full - blown architectural tour of London's most famous brutalist landmarks and modernist social housing estates, finishing with lunch at the Isokon building, a white concrete block designed by architect Wells Coates.

This modernist boutique hotel was designed by architect Albert Frey in the 1930s, and is just an easy walk away from downtown and Palm Springs» Design... Read More

This modernist boutique hotel was designed by architect Albert Frey in the 1930s, and is just an easy walk away from downtown and Palm Springs» Design District.

Set in a Midcentury Modern bank designed by E. Stewart Williams — a pioneer of the area's Desert Modern style (a retrospective of his work, «An Eloquent Modernist,» was the center's opening exhibition in fall 2014)-- the striking glass - and - steel structure houses a trove of inspiration for aspiring architects.

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.

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.»

Largely influenced by the late Mexican architect Luis Barragán, whose vibrant work was considered not modernist but Emotional Architecture, Casebere plays with space, color, and light yet again, but this time in a way that is blissfully cheerful and serene.

THE JEWISH MUSEUM unearthed the life and work of the architect - designer Pierre Chareau (1883 - 1950), previously known mostly for a single modernist masterpiece, the Maison de Verre in Paris, in a first American retrospective framed in a snappy design by Diller Scofidio & Renfro.

One of the 20th century's most eminent designers, Louis Kahn was a Modernist pioneer, as much artist as architect.

Under the new leadership of Rodman Primack, who made his mark in London as chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company, the tented design fair translated the branding sponsorship of Perrier - Jouët, Audi, Fendi, Louis Vuitton and Swarovski into the dazzle of such over-the-top showpieces as a glittered sculpture of King Kong climbing Dubai's Burj Khalifa hotel, a monumental wood - hewn structure commissioned from Seattle architect Olson Kundig to house the cafeteria, furniture commissioned by Herman Miller from French modernist Pierre Paulin circa 1972, but realised only now, and a stream of technology - driven works involving a table whose motor sensors raised handcrafted metal flora at the viewer's approach, a clock spinning out countless time zones beforesettling on local time, and an installation by architect Jeanne Gang and photographer James Balog involving a resin iceberg, pierced with brilliants and set against an Arctic panorama.

Langsam is best known for her paintings of iconic Modernist buildings designed by celebrated architects such as Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier.

[2][10] They were a gathering of young painters, sculptors, architects, writers and critics who were challenging prevailing modernist approaches to culture as well as traditional views of fine art.