Sentences with phrase «modernist architecture of the city»

She states: «against the backdrop of the modernist architecture of the city I see the voice as a means to infiltrate spaces, like a ghost in the machine, and return experience to a human scale.»

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Every urban reform movement of the past 200 years — from England's Hygiene Acts to America's City Beautiful Movement to modern zoning laws to modernist architecture to the creation of public housing and the rise of environmentalism and historic preservation — has been a response to the social and cultural problems created by industrialism.

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.

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).

Palm Springs itself can feel like a museum of Modernist architecture, so it makes perfect aesthetic sense that the California desert city has welcomed the Palm Springs Art Museum's new Architecture and Design Center.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The exhibition also includes architectural views of the city, with its famous Manhattan sky line and Modernist architecture.

Located in the heart of Chelsea, the gallery's three story modernist - inspired structure designed by architects Smith & Thompson boasts one of the few outdoor sculpture gardens in New York City, and is included in a number of books about contemporary architecture.

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.

New York City's Museum of Modern Art, located in Midtown Manhattan and established in 1929, is widely considered as the world's most influential modern and contemporary art museum, crucially important in developing and collecting modernist artworks, including painting, sculpture, photography, prints, books, films, architecture and design.

In the new series of «Rio» paintings, Morris both expands and reduces her abstract compositions, and in the Rio film, images of Rio's beaches, fruit stands, hospitals, iconic modernist architecture, football stadiums, factories and favelas are combined with images from the office of Oscar Niemeyer, the mayor of Rio and the parades of the city's famous Carnival.

Toby Paterson's solo exhibition Penumbralism at Civic House, Civic Street, continues his exploration of leftover city spaces, modernist architecture and the «grey areas» of townscape — the spaces often overlooked or simply discarded.