Sentences with phrase «modernist architecture of the building»

The modernist architecture of the building and the vastness of their galleries hold much potential to cater to the variety of media and scale Merz has to offer.

Not exact matches

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.

Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, is a mix of Soviet modernist architecture and beautiful medieval buildings.

Barcelona's modernist architecture, much of it designed by Antoni Gaudi, is world famous and some appear to be sculptures rather than buildings.

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.

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.

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.

... In the context of the large building of an architectural firm, the clichés about work appear in parallel with the clichés of modernist architecture.

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.

For this solo exhibition in PC - G's Hunt - Cavanagh Gallery, San Diego artist Robert Andrade presents a site - specific installation of new work that builds upon his evolving language of sculpture, public space, Modernist architecture and construction materials as fine art supplies.

One of the final buildings designed by prolific modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 — 1969), the 1968 Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin has long fascinated art and architecture lovers alike.

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.

In 1989 Gillick mounted his first solo exhibition, 84 Diagrams, at Karsten Schubert in London, presenting a series of drawings for buildings in the late Modernist style that were deliberately faulty or unworkable as architecture.

Ornament is Crime is a visual celebration of modernist architecture showcasing a spectacular selection of buildings from the most important architectural movement in modern history.

When you look at these images of architecture, you'd think they were photographs or perhaps renders of modernist buildings.

He created iconic images of some of the most celebrated works of Mid-Century Modern architecture including buildings by Modernist masters Rudolph Schindler, Craig Ellwood, Louis Kahn, A. Quincy Jones and Frank Lloyd Wright.

In the same West 22nd Street building, Yancey Richardson also shows a wide range of photographic imagery, from Julius Shulman's straightforward documentation of midcentury modernist architecture to Mitch Epstein's large - format color photographs of the contemporary social landscape.

The Fifth Wall is inspired by multiple sources: the unique architecture of the Armory's Raymond Avenue building; German modernist theater practitioner Bertolt Brecht's notion of dialectical theater; and artwork that challenges the authority of a fixed point of view and suggests a deeper form of reciprocal engagement.

This year's favourite, Noble, is best known for his creation «Nobson Newtown» - «an exercise in self - portraiture via town planning» which features drawings depicting a fictional city of classic modernist architecture where the buildings spell out words.

Following on from her commission for Frieze Film, Some Ends of Things (2011), depicting an egg - person wandering around the hallways of a modernist building, Hopf's new work will also take the architecture of a modernist home as its context.

More than just as a reference point but rather, because he was the most important American architecture photographer of the post-war period and his images of modernist houses built by Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry are artistic icons in their own right, more than 50 photographs by Julius Shulman are included in the exhibition.

This artist has grown up in a place where there are full - scale utopias, their thinking has been profoundly influenced by Brazilian modernist architecture and even more, by its contrast with the visible at the foot of its buildings precariousness.

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.

«The title of the exhibition references the name given to the style of modernist architecture conceived by Barragán and the artist Mathias Goéritz, who, frustrated by the cold functionalism of modernism, embraced space, colour and light to create buildings that engendered warmth, meditation, and reflection,» said Sean Kelly Gallery, which will show the images later this month.

Konrad is interested in probing the social, economic, historical and political parameters that inform and underlie architecture and urbanism, as much as she in interested in exploring the physical presence of architecture and building types, particularly those of modernist genealogy.

The title of the exhibition references the name given to the style of modernist architecture conceived by Barragán and the artist Mathias Goéritz, who, frustrated by the cold functionalism of Modernism, embraced space, color and light to create buildings that engendered warmth, meditation, and reflection.

One of the problems with modernist architecture is that in many places in the world, it has supplanted traditional methods of building that over generations, have been specifically adapted to local climates, materials and knowledge.

Known for a number of larger buildings designed in what was at the time a relatively unique modernist view of architecture, Mies undertook a commission to design the Farnsworth House from Dr. Edith Farnsworth, whom Mies had met at a dinner party.

Crittall windows have been associated with Art Deco and Modernist movements in early 20th century architecture and many notable buildings across the UK, including the Houses of Parliament and Tower of London.

The rest of his career was devoted to promoting the Modernist style of architecture in the U.S., resulting in rigorously modern buildings such as the Farnsworth House and the Seagram Building, designed with Philip Johnson.