Opie's narrative is specific to Los Angeles as it focuses on L.A.'s rich history
of modernist architecture as well as the recent onslaught of political and natural disasters, such as fires and floods that have dominated the news.
Not exact matches
Remaining fascinated by definitions
of postmodernism and conservatism, and always returning to the notions
of sentiment and «anti-ideology,» to view all the brutal ugliness and inhumanity
of what might legitimately be classified
as «
modernist» (
architecture and literature first....
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).
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.
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.
A founding member
of Anarchitecture, a group that criticized the excesses
of architecture, Matta - Clark's work frequently critiqued the historical destruction caused by
modernist architecture as an outgrowth
of capitalism.
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.
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.
This year's shortlist consists
of Knut Henriksen, whose dominating sculptures reference
modernist architecture, utopian ideals and pragmatic solutions with dazzling visceral results; Vibeke Tandberg who has filled a room with among other things, 119 plaster casts
of freezer doors
as a comment on recycling; Lars Lauman who has crammed a room with ephemera from an era that seemed chemically obsessed, including E.T dolls and archival science material on acid attacks; while Mattias Härenstam has set up a pulley that drags a birch tree branch around the exterior
of a room, blocking people from entering or exiting the doorway.
As the museum sets its sights on showcasing its expanding outdoor space, Portals will serve as a natural transition from the museum's modernist architecture to the quietude of the fores
As the museum sets its sights on showcasing its expanding outdoor space, Portals will serve
as a natural transition from the museum's modernist architecture to the quietude of the fores
as a natural transition from the museum's
modernist architecture to the quietude
of the forest.
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.
By extension
of Modernist architectural history — specifically that
of the eras
of Russian Constructivist and Brutalist
architecture and their influence on American urbanism — Andrade conjures the legacy
of the town square
as a place
of hybrid activity involving intellectual dialogue, contemplation, political ideology, commerce, protest, civic duty, celebration, violence and more.
«Italian Futurism, 1909 - 1944: Reconstructing the Universe» aims to examine paintings and sculptures that have long been recognized
as modernist masterpieces alongside works
of architecture, design and pure public spectacle that fueled the dream
of a total Futurist art.
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.
The show riffs on
Modernist architecture the legacies
of artists such
as Anni Albers and and Ruth Asawa.
A combination
of acrylic and spray paint canvases, dyed interactive soft sculptures, and a concrete block plant installation, the show's multi-medium elements serve
as a whimsical juxtaposition to the
modernist architecture of the space.
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.
Reminiscent
of office cubicles, barriers, waiting areas and processes
of renovation, they operate
as semi-autonomous abstractions and reiterate Gillick's interest in the legacy
of «applied modernism», the two way movement between utilitarian design and
modernist art and
architecture.
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.
Robert Venturi published Complexity and Contradiction in
Architecture in 1966
as a critique
of modernist architecture, primarily
as it had developed since World War II, and particularly during the 1950s.
Offering a fresh reappraisal
of modernist architecture, the survey can alternatively be seen in both the iconic structures
of the
modernist canon and in the portfolios
of some
of the best contemporary architects
of this century, including Arne Jacobsen, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, and Walter Gropius, and contemporary architects such
as Snøhetta, David Adjaye, Sou Fujimoto, Tadao Ando, and John Pawson.
Her breakthrough works were readable
as vividly colored tributes to the extreme geometries
of modernist architecture.
As a new blockbuster exhibition
of modernist art,
architecture and design opens at the V&A, we present a G2 special celebrating the Modern movement.
Based on the historical work
of Brazilian artist Athos Bulcão, the work reflects upon an important artist in Brazil's recent history and discusses
modernist architecture and its utopias
as a means
of transforming Brazilian society.
Inspired by histories
of modernist abstraction,
architecture and the perceptual and organizational structures
of nature, Mangrané's work encompasses drawing, sculpture, light, and film elaborated
as part
of poetically scripted environmental spaces.
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.»
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.
In Ingram's work, which includes a large - scale architectural installation, photographs, prints and paintings, construction materials themselves are used
as tools for humorous investigations
of modernist art and
architecture.
b. 1969 Haarlem, Netherlands Born 1969, Haarlem, Netherlands / Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, and Amsterdam, Netherlands Lara Schnitger applies domestic arts, such
as sewing and quilting, to a brand
of sculpture - making that merges design with
modernist architecture.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.