Sentences with phrase «post-war architectural landscape»

The pre - and post-War architectural landscape was to become an important subject within the artist's photo - painting practice, documented extensively through photographs in his personal compendium «Atlas» and expanded into a lengthy meditation on buildings, infrastructures and townscapes in the Stadtbilder series.

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Leavitt renders the familiar civic and, more often, domestic landscape of post-war L.A., which is dominated by a modest, scrappy, relentlessly future - oriented sense of architectural optimism.

Piper, who was at the height of his powers and celebrity, in part because of his revitalising of British landscape and architectural art in a post-war context, took readily to the demands of designing for a repeat pattern, observes Simon Martin, curator of John Piper: The Fabric of Modernism, opening at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester next month.