Sentences with phrase «modernist social architecture»

Hiorns, who claims his work is inspired the problems of modernist social architecture, created the work Seizure last year.

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

The Irish artist imagines a speculative live / work environment drawing influence from Modernist architecture and science fiction, both of which imagine the future as a utopian space of fantastic social and political potential.

«In Montparnasse,» it continued, «we see social housing in pracice, the epitome of the modern urban envirnonment and a wistful reminder of how the reality of Modernist architecture parted ways with its socially - minded ideology... Gursky is able to achieve a powerful sense of both alienation and individuality, which leaves us feeling the prime symptom of the modern world: the fear of being alone.»

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.

Tapping into the vocabulary and history of modernist design and architecture Boyce recreates its essential components and structures and transforms them into what he calls «unstable landscapes» in which social exchange might occur.

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.

With shifting modes of presentation and the structural logic of collage, he considers the social ramifications of rigidly planned urban spaces and modernist architecture, which became prominent in Europe in the 60s and 70s.

The legacy of echt - modernist architecture and planning, for example — a creed of formal sobriety in the service of rationalized material (and social) technologies that was uniquely influential on the condition of the twentieth - century urban fabric — has long provided raw material for any number of theoretical and artifactual recapitulations.