Sentences with phrase «questions of architecture»

The volume brings questions of architecture to the fore, exploring how this particular body of light works function in space.

Beatriz Colomina is an architectural historian and theorist who has written extensively on questions of architecture and media.

Known for their unique approach to things and their meaning, General Idea appropriated the ziggurat as the icon of power and theism, utilizing its form as a framing device to examine questions of architecture, branding and spatial politics.

Beatriz Colomina is an internationally renowned architectural historian and theorist who has written extensively on questions of architecture, art, sexuality and media.

As for questions of architecture, one example will suffice.

Taking up the question of architecture, music, sculpture, painting, literature, philosophy, and the artistic life, Christian next refers to George Weigel's book, The Cube and the Cathedral, which uses Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris (representing religious art) and La Grande Arche de la Defense (representing secular art) to ask, Which culture would better protect human rights and the moral foundations of democracy?

[223] Each of these painters would eventually address the question of architecture in their theoretical writings.

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Thus Evangelical Catholicism's approach to church architecture, decoration, music, vesture, and all the other tangibles of the Church's liturgical life proceeds from the question, «Is this beautiful in such a way that it helps disclose the living God in Word and Sacrament?»

We were a mixed bag of philosophers, lawyers, theologians, chemists and the odd architecture student who sought to grapple with the ultimate questions.

The tendency is to answer this question in terms of structure or architecture or system.

By showing that all classical computers are essentially alike, this discovery enabled scientists and mathematicians to ask fundamental questions about computation without getting bogged down in the minutiae of computer architecture.

«One of the questions we were trying to answer is whether or not architecture of the implant mattered, and this showed us that yes, it does, which is why our unique approach using a 3D printer was important,» said Chen.

The debate centres on the finer points of flower architecture, but points to a broader concern about using statistical models and large data sets to tackle biological questions, says Pamela Soltis, a plant biologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

The discovery is important for reasons beyond the city's age — it throws into question many assumptions on which a great deal of archaeological work is based, because the inhabitants of Caral built a social and political structure, not to mention monumental architecture, without the trappings of writing, metallurgy, or ceramics.

Such an efficient network architecture of our functional brain raises the question of a possible association between how efficiently the regions of our brain are functionally connected and our level of intelligence.

October 24, 2013 Genetic analysis reveals novel insights into the genetic architecture of obsessive - compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome An international research consortium led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of Chicago has answered several questions about the genetic background of obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome (TS), providing the first direct confirmation that both are highly heritable and also revealing major differences between the underlying genetic makeup of the disorders.

Moreover, it seems that distinct subsets of dopamine neurons belong to discrete circuits that carry out different functions, although the architecture of these circuits remains an open question.

The question of interdependence versus modularity suggests that devices like Chromebooks will give closed - architecture devices tough competition in the years ahead and continue to steal market share.

In addition to the work that teachers do in their own classroom, the architecture, science, and social studies teachers joined the model - building phase of the architecture project to help and support students, ask questions, offer a new perspective on their design, and help them push through any obstacles.

Gandini says it was «more a question of destruction than restoration,» but he respected the original architecture and hid modern structural reinforcements, «keeping the spirit» of its appearance.

With the next - gen console zero - hour approaching, we reached out to Crytek to talk tech - to discuss how their multi-platform engine was ported onto next - gen, what the company view was of the new Sony and Microsoft architecture, and of course to sneak in a few questions about Ryse.

Influenced by Minimalism, American Conceptual Art, and Brazil's Neo-concrete movement, Dávila's artistic practice questions the inherent qualities of modern architecture and art throughout history.

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

Looking at Guy de Cointet, Cameron Crawford, Glen Fogel, and Steffani Jemison at Laurel Gitlen, one can see the gallery's usual question of how ratty gestures can add up to real or imagined architecture.

In its never - ending quest for new disciplines to appropriate, explore, question and dismantle, this is yet another example of art enfolding a certain kind of architecture within its remit.

As survey exhibitions tend to be, the way of framing raises questions — from the implication of contextualizing women artists in Glasgow through the lens of their association with the art school, and the absence of women architects particularly given the strong associations between the school and city to architecture.

From that competition arises the question of the intentionality of the architecture, installation or art object: does it seek to engage the viewer on an equal footing of open dialogue or does it seek to talk down and manipulate?

Working across various media — including drawing, painting, collage, printmaking, sculpture, architecture and industrial design — Frezza and Chiao craft images, objects and spaces that question our experience of the lived environment.

As Walker states, «It is my hope that the interaction between these very divergent works and methods could return a viewer to the questions of modernism, architecture, urbanism and the resistant bodies who reshape it.»

Seeking to explore these possibilities in an optimistic and generative tone, the 89plus Marathon brought together participations from the fields of art, architecture, music, activism, science, technology, literature and theory to find out how to ask - and how to begin to answer - the following questions:

Bronstein's work raises timely questions about how we both experience and acknowledges an architectural style that pervades the UK, yet remains undocumented within the canon of architecture.

Thomas Heatherwick asks questions about architecture and a pier in the Meatpacking District, while Michael Kimmelman envisions the future of Penn Station.

Woman on the Run — a large tableau of architecture, sculpture, film, video, neon signs, audio and materials drawn from everyday life — provides a film - noir - like setting for a crime story in which a mysterious woman in Arizona is sought for questioning in the murder of her husband.

Utilizing these images and documents as a framework, Cornaro creates, through various processes and mediums, artworks that question and deconstruct the systems of representation that these sources denote (of objects, life, architecture, and nature).

The flattened architecture and exaggerated perspective of Suss's canvases memorialize their collected art and objects through an intimate, archeological process that opens familial narrative to questions of class, politics, and religion.

One of the questions that shaped this exhibition early on was whether the customary curatorial approach of P.S. 1, with its fast - paced process and focus on living artists as well as the rustic architecture of the former schoolhouse, would offer a different visual setting for work ordinarily seen in the minimal white galleries of MoMA.

Eliasson is fundamentally concerned with creating art that asks questions about our human perception of reality; his works draw associations to land art and architecture, the romanticism of nature and natural science.

By revealing the architectural surface as index of violence, she questions architecture itself as physical representation of visible and invisible state power.

This evening seeks not only to draw out parallels and overlaps between the spaces of performance in the visual and performing arts — the somewhat outdated concepts of the white cube and the black box — but also to question the increasing role of performance art in museums today and how architecture frames and determines it.

The artist created a 20 - ton replica of the former HSBC Bank in Shanghai, built in 1923 by the British architecture firm Palmer & Turner, contemplating the troubling history this building has lived through while questioning the power of ruling institutions.

All his works hint at a critical, analytical consideration of the concept of sculpture and its media: he straddles the boundaries between object and performance, architecture and design, sculpture and photography, artist and public, meaning that his work also provides a broad basis for reflection on social and cultural questions.

This creates a fascinating reference system of repetitions and differences, in terms of both the temporal and the spatial, that asks questions of the viewer about architecture, public space, and their function in society.

Martin Beck is an artist whose exhibitions and projects engages questions of historicity and authorship and often draws from the fields of architecture, design, and popular culture.

The Walker Art Center presents Question the wall itself, a multi-disciplinary exploration of the political, social and cultural qualities in interior architecture.

Through an architectural model of the vacant Iranian Embassy in Washington D.C., and a fictional map of the space, Sohrabi poses questions about ideological potentials at the site of the embassy, the ownership of the space, and common elements that history and architecture share: slowness, loss, and lack of access.

Therefore, he creates a metaclass of language that questions both architecture and the way we look at it.

This question seems to serve as an inspiration for turning the iconic history of modern architecture into lightweight paper cut outs.

From digital avatars to divine architecture, picnics as protest and people as products — the work of these four artist - collaborators tackles the vast questions of who we are as individuals, how we interact with others, and what we create with our labor.

She is committed to an active questioning of traditional sculpture, layering her work with reflections on institutional realities, socio - political themes and historical antecedents from the worlds of art, architecture, and design.

And the young French artist Davide Balula makes good use of the space in a solo show that consists of a single, succinct visual gesture that questions the solidity of architecture.