Sentences with phrase «modernist architecture in»

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.

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.

The group show exhibits works that criticize the history of modernist architecture in Latin America.

«Condemned to be modern» features the works of 21 artists, including seven PIPA Prize nominees (Jonathas de Andrade, Tamar Guimarães, Lucia Koch, Runo Lagomarsino, Renata Lucas, Lais Myrrha and Beto Shwafaty), who have responded critically to the history of modernist architecture in Latin America.

The first is a gated summer resort in Alexandria called Maamoura built by the state shortly after Gamal Abdel Nasser came to power to accommodate the new elite of the «rebranded» (post-1952) Egypt, a significant yet painfully understudied monument of modernist architecture in Egypt.

Museum Ludwig pays homage to Werner Mantz — one of the most prominent photographers of Neues Bauen modernist architecture in the 1920s.

Croatian artist David Maljkovic's disarming photographic montage continues his exploration into the ongoing legacy of modernist architecture in the former Yugoslavian state.

The International Center for Photography is currently presenting a large exhibition of Latin American photography, the Museum of Modern Art has devoted its main exhibition space to Brazil's Lygia Clark, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts is looking at the legacy of modernist architecture in Latin American cities.

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.

Not exact matches

When I attended architecture school in the 1980s, I was rather skeptical of the modernist project.

Modernists and postmodernists would argue that historical styles in architecture are inherently undemocratic, because they assume a high level of humanist education and taste — privileges of the elite.

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Offended by the values built into historical styles in architecture, the modernists eliminated those styles.

The house is an early Modernist home, and I've been trying to figure out ways for the holiday decor to complement, not compete with the already beautiful details in the architecture, and still be easy and quick to do.

The Hoosier Award, which recognizes a significant cinematic contribution by a person or persons with roots in Indiana, or a film that depicts Hoosier State locales and stories, went to «Columbus,» the debut feature film of director Kogonada, which was set and shot in the southern Indiana city noted for its Modernist architecture.

As perfect as indies get, this intimate drama — set in an Indiana town known for its striking modernist architecture — showcased the year's most exquisite flirtation, between two intellectuals (John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson) stuck at life's turning points.

So he does exactly that, using countless features taking place (or shot) in Los Angeles to show the development of the city, as well as how decisions on and off the screen impact each other (one of my favourite parts: when Andersen explains how the city's modernist architecture was devalued by having the movies always associate the look with antagonists).

COLUMBUS (2017) dir Kogonada w / John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey, Rory Culkin, Michelle Forbes [100 min; DCP] When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin (Cho) finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana — a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings.

The types of school buildings that can be described as «historic» are similarly wide - ranging — from several hundred year old buildings that remain in use as schools to modernist architecture built in the post war period.

His passion for architecture and all aspects of design has resulted in the recent completion of his modernist home which contains a unique collection of mid-century modern furniture, Italian glass and modern art.

Explore the city's broad spectrum of architecture, from its medieval roots in the Gothic quarter to the modernist, almost fantastical church that is Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia.

Tourists interested in the rich cultural heritage of Olot, with excellent examples of Modernist and Renaissance architecture, as well as guests wishing to spend their holidays enjoying nature, away from the hustle and bustle of the cities, will find that this 3 - star hotel is the ideal place to stay.

It's worth visiting Gdynia on a weekend trip to Gdansk, it's only half an hour away by train and you can see modernist architecture, maritime attractions or go hiking in the local Nature Reserve.

Cameras at the ready, people, as City 17 boasts some of the finest Eastern European architecture, with pre-WWII neo-classicist structures sitting in perfect harmony alongside Soviet modernist complexes, and the enormous, towering Citadel stretching up into the clouds.

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.»

One may be tempted to situate Commito within a modernist lineage celebrating the machine and the city (think Italian Futurism or American Precisionism), but Commito is more interested in entropy and folk architecture than paeans to progress.

The finished artwork questions the position of personal and social memory, in relation to the tradition of socialist, modernist architecture.

And to share that passion, it has created playful illustrated paper cutout models of Brutalist buildings in London; modernist buildings in Warsaw; and a new series, Paris Brut, featuring Brutalist architecture from the 1950s — 70s located in the city center and outlying banlieues.

The artists in the exhibition inflect Modernist forms with contemporary perspectives on intimate subjects including: the poetics of domestic architecture, the pertinence of ancient myth, and the solipsism of art history.

The relevance of Howey's subject, wrote gallery director Sheila Moore in a news release, is «the interesting parallel between abstract art and modernist and mid-century architecture.

At the same time, curator Jane Livingstone notes «His searching, inventive attacks on the ancient problem of capturing (or posing) the figure, and the figure's relationship to architecture and furniture and draperies, suggest a discipline worthy of Ingres or Degas» (J. Livingstone, «Richard Diebenkorn: Modernist Humanist,» in Richard Diebenkorn: Figurative Works on Paper, exh.

In addition, FIAC will develop the presence of important modernist and contemporary architectures with exceptional projects by Jean Prouvé, Christian de Portzamparc and Hans - Walter Müller, among others, installed on the Esplanade des Feuillants that borders the Rue de Rivoli.

Modernist architecture is featured in other images; here, the human hand, the slight presence of humanity, is seen amidst the reflective surfaces of glass and steel construction.

Mika Tajima employs sculpture, painting, video, music, and performance, often drawing on contradictions in modernist design and architecture to consider how the performing subject (e. g., speaker, dancer, designer, factory worker, musician, filmmaker) is constructed in spaces in which material objects outline action and engagement.

The landscape of southern California serves as a catalyst for fantasy, from its modernist architecture to its otherworldly rock formations, trees, coastline, mountains, and hills from which twinkling towns and cities can be viewed in the valleys below.

He has been testing the limits of his medium for more than two decades, producing photographs in series with subjects that range from domestic interiors to the planets, from modernist architecture to abstract psychedelia, from specific portraits to generic internet pornography.

Cited as the first truly Modernist building of the Americas, this large complex features contributions by a variety of Brazilian artists, architects, and designers (including the influential landscape architect Roberto Brule Marx, currently the subject of a solo show at the Jewish Museum in New York) all organized by the famed, controversial godfather of 20th - century architecture himself, Le Corbusier.

[66] Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in New York (1956 — 1958) is often regarded as the pinnacle of this modernist high - rise architecture.

While Meckseper's earlier vitrine works commented on contemporary consumer culture using the shop window as an example and focus point for civic unrest and protest in our late capitalist society, her current works allude to the political dimension of early modernist display architecture and design between World War I and II in Weimar Germany.

The exhibition will feature a new stainless steel vitrine that pays homage to the modernist architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe who was born in Aachen in 1886.

In Prismatic Park, McElheny continues his examination of the way the transparency of glass is strongly linked to ideas within Modernist art, architecture, and philosophy.

Having a vivid interest in color, structure and volumetric line drawing, the artist's iconography is drawn from modernist architecture, Christian religious fervor, and the adolescent imagination that glamorizes one's own beliefs.

Drawing on modernist architecture, Israeli Kibbutzim, the plays of Bertolt Brecht, and Constructivist set design as influences, Meromi will create a series of sculptural environments that are continually altered through off - hours «rehearsals» that will take place in the gallery.

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Artist Heidrun Holzfeind, designer and artist Damon Rich, and writer Niko Vicario consider the legacy of modernist architecture, urban redevelopment, and self - determination in Newark, New Jersey, in an exhibition of new cross-disciplinary works produced on and around the 58 - acre urban renewal site of Mies van der Rohe's Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments.

He juxtaposes modernist architecture with structures common in Latin America — favela shacks, adobe and vernacular buildings — and he incorporates aspects of the do - it - yourself economy to find practical solutions when resources are scarce.

Living Modern Heidrun Holzfeind, Damon Rich, Niko Vicario Curator: Laura Barlow Artist Heidrun Holzfeind, designer and artist Damon Rich, and writer Niko Vicario consider the legacy of modernist architecture, urban redevelopment, and self - determination in Newark, New Jersey, in an exhibition of new cross-disciplinary works produced on and around the 58 - acre urban renewal site of Mies van der Rohe's Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments.

He is an immaculate painter, working carefully by hand with tape and a drywall blade to create seamless planes that seem at once solid and transparent, referential to the modernist architecture that dots the Southern California landscape and to the iconic «light and space» artists and West Coast hard edge abstractionists (Larry Bell, Frederic Hammersley, Robert Irwin, John McLaughlin) who have engaged with these peculiarities and particularities of atmosphere and surface in their work.

In the latter, Rose presented two videos that explored human perception through gauzy shots of modernist architecture (Philip Johnson's Glass House), apocalyptic hail storms, and history - laden landscapes.

Ornament has generally been considered taboo in modernist art and architecture — certainly by the Bauhaus — but Stella was perceptive enough to realize that geometrical ornament was actually pre-20th-century abstract art.