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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Mark Wasiuta
An in-depth exploration of the work of Frederick Kiesler, the visionary architect, with a special focus on his Mobile Home Library.
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Modern Brazilian architecture through the lens of contemporary discourses on plants, public space and windows
German photographer Veronika Kellndorfer (born 1962) studies Brazilian modernism through the pictorial significance of windows…
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Sander breaks down the wall between two storied pavilions--designed by Bruno Giacometti and Carlo Scarpa--at Venice's Architecture Biennale
With her site-specific interventions, artist Karin Sander (born 1957) operates on the…
Mark Wigley,Mark Wasiuta
Includes photographs from the famous 1960s series Homes for America and a re-visit of the New Jersey sites - An homage to the photographic work of the world-renowned American artist
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Architecture is a field organized by documents produced within distinct historical, mediatic, and disciplinary registers. Whether in the mode of drawing, design, fabrication, computation, photography, or video, architectural documents are…
The influential game aiming at ecological peace
Mark Wigley
This work attempts to provide a new understanding of the historical avant-garde by analyzing the clothing of modern architecture. The author examines the relationships between architectural surfaces and clothing fashions…
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A novel reading of the work of one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century.In this provocative intellectual biography, architectural historian Mark Wigley makes the surprising claim that…
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An archival detective story, Truth or myth? The legendary Anarchitecture exhibition.
Down to the last detail, Buckminster Fuller’s buildings were set up to receive electromagnetic signals. In a mostly wireless world, they take on a new and urgent significance.
Beatriz Colomina,Mark Wigley
A holistic approach toward the omnipotence of design.
Darsie Alexander,Sam Sackeroff
A strikingly original exploration of the profound impact of World War II on how we understand the art that survived it
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Mark Wigley,Luis Fernandez-Galiano,Anne Pohlmann
Rita McBride is a US-American artist whose installations explore cultural and sociological issues using the language of architecture. At first sight, the sculptures and installations are composed of recognizable daily…
60 years of drawing between architecture and art
An immersive exhibition experience evoking Homer’s classic epic
This catalog accompanies an immersive exhibition in which the Villa Carmignac and its gardens were transformed into a maze for guests to…
Rem Koolhaas,Jorge Otero-pailos,Jordan Carver,Mark Wigley
Preservation is Overtaking Us brings together two lectures given by Rem Koolhaas at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, along with a response (framed as a supplement…
Eight capsule collections emphasizing the shifting relationship between art and fashion
For eight years, fueled by Dakis Joannou’s belief that although art is considered eternal and fashion ephemeral, both are…
Mark Wigley,Elke Krasny,Andreas Schlaegel
Edited by Eva Ebersberger, Daniela Zyman.
A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self
The field of design has radically expanded. As a practice, design is no longer limited to…
Superhumanity
Monica Bonvicini’s latest meditation on power and architecture in Vienna’s Belvedere 21
Here, Berlin-based installation artist Monica Bonvicini (born 1965)–best known for her large-scale, site-specific installations using metal and glass–continues…
For more than twenty years, Armin Linke has been photographing the effects of globalization, the wholesale transformation of infrastructures, and the networking of the post-industrial society via digital information and…
