Sentences with phrase «of urbanism in»

In this traditional paperback, renowned critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist teams up with Dutch avant - garde architect and paradigm - shifting intellectual, Rem Koolhaas, for a discussion of Koolhaas's work in China, his designs for Prada, architecture as metaphor, and the development of urbanism in the slipstream of globalization.

Not exact matches

In winner - take - all urbanism, superstar cities house disproportionate concentrations of talent and leading edge industries.

I have been arguing that good cities are an essential component of the good life for human beings, who are made in the image of God, and that urbanism — for good reason — is a privileged symbol in the Christian imagination.

The historical context of Jesus, therefore, reflects a social and economic situation in which exploitative urbanism, powerful redistributive central institutions like the Roman state and Jewish Temple, concentration of land holdings in the hands of the few, rising debt, and disrupted horizontal relations in society were becoming the norm.69

We go to Bruges primarily because it's an extraordinary example of «ordinary» medieval mercantile urbanism shaped, literally, by Catholic Christianity: a beautiful compact environment of exemplary streets, squares, and buildings, perhaps the most physically intact medieval city in northern Europe.

It was one of Protestantism's most effective weapons in meeting the problems created by advancing urbanism.

In spite of our attraction to good cities when we see them, American culture is currently neither conducive nor receptive to the kind of architecture and urbanism that Mayernik champions.

But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity in service to the next great culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.

They also remind us of some unpleasant truths: that virtually all of us in the modern world are now mere consumers of great urbanism rather than its producers; and that this earlier vision of cities is now so far removed from the mindset of the modern world that the project of reviving great urbanism may be one best regarded in terms of generations if not centuries.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

In a special issue of The Nation that includes over 20 stories about New York City under Mayor Bloomberg, a picture is painted of a two - tiered urbanism.

But, as the example of King Farm shows, new urbanism can devolve into the kind of central planning criticized by the very founders of the urban planning school of thought — and can also result in what is essentially a style without substance.

The Coleman Report itself measured family background by a series of survey questions given to the students that were combined into measures of urbanism, parents» education, structural integrity of the home, size of family, items in the home, reading material in the home, parents» interests, and parents» educational desires.

For two thousand years (500 BC — 1517 AD) before the arrival of the Spanish Conquerors, the ancient Maya achieved extraordinary accomplishments in architecture, urbanism, art, writing and science.

From metropolitan sci - fi open worlds and medieval fantasy towns, to contemporary cities and glimpses of gothic horror urbanism author and artist will research, map, visualize, and document some of the most iconic, complex and intriguing cities in gaming.

Through their creative processes these artists take apart these tropes in order to visualize their own personal journeys of loss, experience and a vernacular urbanism that manifests in their paintings and sculptures.

Bobrow is not only interested in how these works relate to place, and particularly within this body of work a certain New York urbanism, but how the mesh - covered building is as real an experience as it was before being covered and how the mesh painting is as similarly real as it was in its original place.

It is the first time the award, which recognises a body of work in architecture, urbanism, art or design, has been given to an artist.

The group focuses on architecture, urbanism, and contemporary art, and is interested in researching the transformation of the contemporary city and the critical role of architecture within that transformation.

In her current body of work, Schmidt explores the impacts that the growing urbanism of the planet could have on distant futures.

The New York - based artist constructs interventions within existing environments in an effort to incite greater complications of both architecture and urbanism.

The works included adopt a varied series of positions in relation to urbanism: critical, observational, participatory, performative.

Ma suggests a new urbanism by reducing form and function to simple calligraphic lines in the fragile light of neon.

She has written extensively and lectured internationally on such interdisciplinary topics as art and urbanism, art and the public sphere, art and the declaration of rights, art and war, and feminist theories of subjectivity in visual representation.

The Meadows Prize is awarded to innovative artists and creative professionals and is a key aspect of the School's Ignite / Arts Dallas program, the arts and urbanism initiative at the Meadows School which integrates artistic practices with community engagement in Dallas and across the country.

This injection of «naked» urbanism into the not - so - naked frame of the gallery suggested the stripped - down figure of the artist - as - flaneur - in - the - buff parading another form of sly institutional critique.

His practice takes elements from fields in the proximities of urbanism, architecture and art in relation to politics, history, geography and economy.

It also urges museums to stay on the cutting edge of technology, pushing their way out of the white - cube sensibility with 3 - D printing, online learning, smart buildings, interactive displays, and increased engagement in public discussion about themes like urbanism and ecology.

When she moved to Lyon in 2010 with her trusted camera, she discovered a heavy atmosphere through an abandoned industrial past, which left a kind of urbanism that seemed to immobilise its local residents.

Urbiquity's Artist Talk at DeptfordX will consider the use of participatory and alternative methods in conducting and communicating visual urbanism as well as ideas of memory, movement, materiality and locality.

Both Ahmed & Rashid hold degrees from the University of Oxford in urbanism.

A few galleries will be addressing urbanism and the built environment, among them OMR of Mexico City, making its first appearance in the fair.

She has published art reviews, research articles, essays and poems in local and international journals and catalogues on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, urbanism, contemporary dance, poetry, photography, public art, and contemporary art.

Led by international, interdisciplinary teams of emerging talents in the areas of urbanism, architecture, art, design, science, technology, education, and sustainability, the Lab addresses issues of contemporary urban life through programs and public discourse.

As part of the Lab's ongoing global dialogue about urban life, this exhibition considers the major themes and ideas that emerged in each city as a foundation for exploring perspectives on urbanism today.

Her research examines how architecture, urbanism and landscape design participate in the distribution of resources, and in recent years has been focused on how architects use food as a means to rethink the media and politics of practice.

VES also offers lecture courses and seminars in film history and theory, studies of the built and natural environment, design and urbanism, and contemporary arts.

Examining distance and memory and their embodiment in and through architecture, urbanism and cartography, her work has exhibited widely throughout Europe and the United States, including the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, the Icelandic National Gallery of Art, Iceland, the Victoria Miro Warehouse, London, the Centre d'Art Contemporaine á Séte, France, and the Hannover Kunstverein, Germany.

Meanwhile, Mondrian's broader relationship with architecture and urbanism is explored through a comparison of his earlier Parisian works and those he made in the modern cityscape of New York.

In their attempts to disengage with European urbanism the paintings recall the many Indian modernists who were preoccupied with scenes of village life.

They became incorporated into the media and arts, in particular the spatial arts of architecture, urbanism, and film.

In addition to his award - winning book From Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture In and Out of Africa (2007), he has published widely on the arts, architecture and urbanism of Africa and its diasporas, African - American art history and queer studies.

She has published extensively on art, architecture, patronage and urbanism in Renaissance Florence, and is currently working on a book about Renaissance plans, views and descriptions of Florence.

In 2011 Estévez cofounded LIGA, Space for Architecture in Mexico City, an exhibition platform dedicated to experimentation in the field of architecture and urbanisIn 2011 Estévez cofounded LIGA, Space for Architecture in Mexico City, an exhibition platform dedicated to experimentation in the field of architecture and urbanisin Mexico City, an exhibition platform dedicated to experimentation in the field of architecture and urbanisin the field of architecture and urbanism.

Uslé's works appear based in the seemingly fragmentary visual world of postmodern urbanism and technological civilization, engaging with the constant process of filtering with which our «inner eye» responds to today's optical mass of information.

Ron Henderson is professor and director of the graduate program in landscape architecture and urbanism at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

Earlier work in studios of Markus Draper and Wolfgang Flad, as well as current professional engagement at in Architecture at the Beuth Hochschule für Technik in Berlin, defined Czakainski's visual research on urbanism and housing and inspired long - lasting project Urban Investigations.

This multi-part project animates Chester's downtown cultural corridor by engaging the local community, along with experts in public history, placemaking, and tactical urbanism, in a series of events and programs interpreting the city's underground history.

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.

(New York, US) André Komatsu, along with many other Latin - American and Caribbean artists such as Alexander Apostol, Quisqueya Henriquez and Daniela Ortiz, was invited to this exhibition with the aim of assessing the effects of modernism in architecture, urbanism and arts in their places of origin.