Sentences with phrase «with modernist architecture»

One of the problems with modernist architecture is that in many places in the world, it has supplanted traditional methods of building that over generations, have been specifically adapted to local climates, materials and knowledge.

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.

These include his relationship with education, his links with modernist architecture, his view of the tradition of painting and of American literature, and his approach to the vernacular, popular culture, youthful initiatory rites and styles of musical subcultures.

Sadie Murdoch is an artist who has compellingly pursued her fascination with modernist architecture and design and how it is represented.

In 1997 Tiravanija began an engagement with modernist architecture when he installed in the Museum of Modern Art's sculpture garden Untitled: 1997 (Glass House), a child - size version of Philip Johnson's Glass House (1949).

These three artists embed forms associated with modernist architecture and design as well as Minimalism into their sculptures and works on paper.

Not exact matches

The house is an early Modernist home, and I've been trying to figure out ways for the holiday decor to complement, not compete with the already beautiful details in the architecture, and still be easy and quick to do.

The Hoosier Award, which recognizes a significant cinematic contribution by a person or persons with roots in Indiana, or a film that depicts Hoosier State locales and stories, went to «Columbus,» the debut feature film of director Kogonada, which was set and shot in the southern Indiana city noted for its Modernist architecture.

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).

Our flights will take you to this special part of Spain, where iconic modernist architecture blends with outlandish Catalan Gothic style to create a surreal yet beautiful environment.

Visitors can also enjoy chilled out seaside towns, eclectic ethnic groups, archeological ruins and cities crammed with Islamic, Modernist, Futurist and Art Deco architecture.

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.

Sagmeister suggests that much of this «ugliness» in architecture was thanks to the work of Viennese Modernist Adolf Loos being «wilfully misunderstood» by the next generation of architects, who he says «covered the world with the psychotic sameness we still suffer from to this day.»

He captures the sunny, laid - back personality of this region by portraying modernist architecture, street food culture and strong Mexican influences, and his work is filled with plenty of character.

The artists in the exhibition inflect Modernist forms with contemporary perspectives on intimate subjects including: the poetics of domestic architecture, the pertinence of ancient myth, and the solipsism of art history.

The modernist architecture of Mies Van Der Rohe and Zaha Hadid — and their open - ended, problem - solving approach to refined «architectonic form» — provided a framework that resonated with Ball's artistic practice.

In addition, FIAC will develop the presence of important modernist and contemporary architectures with exceptional projects by Jean Prouvé, Christian de Portzamparc and Hans - Walter Müller, among others, installed on the Esplanade des Feuillants that borders the Rue de Rivoli.

He has been testing the limits of his medium for more than two decades, producing photographs in series with subjects that range from domestic interiors to the planets, from modernist architecture to abstract psychedelia, from specific portraits to generic internet pornography.

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.

... In the context of the large building of an architectural firm, the clichés about work appear in parallel with the clichés of modernist architecture.

He juxtaposes modernist architecture with structures common in Latin America — favela shacks, adobe and vernacular buildings — and he incorporates aspects of the do - it - yourself economy to find practical solutions when resources are scarce.

Many of the forms and compositions recall mid-century Minimalism, Hard - edge painting, and modernist architecture with its utopian ideals of living.

He is an immaculate painter, working carefully by hand with tape and a drywall blade to create seamless planes that seem at once solid and transparent, referential to the modernist architecture that dots the Southern California landscape and to the iconic «light and space» artists and West Coast hard edge abstractionists (Larry Bell, Frederic Hammersley, Robert Irwin, John McLaughlin) who have engaged with these peculiarities and particularities of atmosphere and surface in their work.

With vast knowledge of cinema, literature and modernist architecture, Gonzalez - Foerster places sound and light at the centre of her installations.

Engaging with the history and mission of The Arts Club itself, the two - part installation will bring together McElheny's film The Light Club of Vizcaya: A Women's Picture (2012) and a new site - specific installation titled The Club for Modern Fashions (2013), a constructed glass pavilion into which performers and guests are invited during the lunch hour, Tuesdays through Fridays, dressed in vintage attire from the 1920s to the 1970s — decades that signify the height of a modernist imperative across the cultures of fashion, design, and architecture.

It featured a number of local talents, including Bjoern Meyer - Ebrecht, whose severe geometric wooden sculptures / book stands were crowned with vintage German modernist paperbacks that harkened back to a period when much of the world still believed in the power of art, architecture, and design to usher in utopias.

Modernism: On and Off the Grid, curated by Niko Vicario, brings together works engaged with the legacy of Modernist architecture and design.

The work, in the artist's words, is made to «hang tapestry - like» with drooping and irregular edges that contrast with the clean lines of the Museum's modernist architecture.

«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.»

The dialogue between work and location, while seemingly jarring, invites a sense of unease to coexist with the traditional prettiness of modernist architecture.

Describing themselves as an agency that enjoys a special bond with architecture, typography and paper — they have created many other paper cut - outs inspired by modernist architecture, including a set that celebrates London's own Brutalist estates.

Ornament is Crime is also interspersed with classic song lyrics, literary excerpts and insightful quotes from some of the leading figures of modernist architecture, adding depth and context to the featured images.

Mixing a love of formal, modernist art with a madcap, idiosyncratic sensibility, Lins's work interrogates both itself and its engagement with architecture and viewers.

The exhibition also includes architectural views of the city, with its famous Manhattan sky line and Modernist architecture.

The modernist philosophy with which the building was designed emphasizes the link between art, architecture, and everyday life.

The film is spliced with familiar shots of modernist architecture.

In her ninth solo show at the gallery, the Los Angeles photographer is debuting her first film, «The Modernist,» which presents the story of an arsonist obsessed with torching L.A.'s most iconic Modernist architecture.

The gallery is showing the Los Angeles photographer's first film, «The Modernist,» which presents the story of an arsonist obsessed with torching L.A.'s most iconic Modernist architecture.

Here we see a growth of camouflaged favelas nestled within a bucolic rain forest or modernist architecture negotiating its territory in a land with a rich colonial heritage.

He merged his nonsense word with Bauhaus, the name of the Modernist architecture and design school, to come up with Merzbau, the name he gave to a sprawling site - specific installation he began creating in his parents» Hannover home in 1927.

This artist has grown up in a place where there are full - scale utopias, their thinking has been profoundly influenced by Brazilian modernist architecture and even more, by its contrast with the visible at the foot of its buildings precariousness.

This exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 2017 - 18, will feature the work of 30 contemporary artists from Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela, among other countries, who have engaged with the history of modernist architecture in Latin America.

In the new series of «Rio» paintings, Morris both expands and reduces her abstract compositions, and in the Rio film, images of Rio's beaches, fruit stands, hospitals, iconic modernist architecture, football stadiums, factories and favelas are combined with images from the office of Oscar Niemeyer, the mayor of Rio and the parades of the city's famous Carnival.

Björn Meyer - Ebrecht's painting's use modernist architecture and design as a starting point, using basic geometric form as an alphabet with which to render these utilitarian and utopian forms into idiosyncratic compositions.

11:30 am: Panel 3: Exhibition Focus: «Learning from Latin America: Art, Architecture and Visions of Modernism» This exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 2017 - 18, will feature the work of 30 contemporary artists from Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela, among other countries, who have engaged with the history of modernist architecture in Latin America.

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.

In this exhibition he pursues his dialogue with iconic modernist architecture...

Sosnowska has previously incorporated elements of modernist architecture and recognisable details including staircases, handrails and street furniture to create unexpected encounters with fragments that have an uncanny familiarity.

In 1975, when I was designing my first solar house, my professor at Yale, a celebrated modernist, told me that «solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.»