Perspecta 56

Author : Guillermo Acosta Navarrete,Gabriel Gutierrez Huerta
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262547819

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Perspecta 56 by Guillermo Acosta Navarrete,Gabriel Gutierrez Huerta Pdf

Exploring architecture as a form of concealment and obfuscation in engendering new ways of understanding, conceptualizing, and reshaping the world. Architecture is the perfect form of camouflage. As buildings recede into the background of everyday life, the myriad forces that shape our natural, social, and political landscapes hide in plain sight. Embedded within the spatial and material organizations of the built environment are ideas of value, hierarchy, and control that tilt the ground and influence perception in the name of endless competing interests. Operating across multiple scales and mediums, architectural camouflage gives familiar form to obscure objectives. Design transforms and encodes our shared environments, from domestic domains to digital territories, through its material practices, aesthetics, and discourses. Immanent in the periphery, architecture’s images are internalized as forms for understanding and reshaping the world. Camouflage, in turn, dwells in the architecture of our collective subconscious. Latent within architecture’s deceptions is a profound capacity to reflect the elusive intentions and surreal ambiguities of our ecological entanglements. In masking hierarchies and shifting sensitivities to what escapes perception, architecture can engender vital questions around the agency and significance of its world-making practices. Mediating with and within the background, architecture can awaken new modes of attention to material and social layers previously unimagined or hidden and engage directly with the mirrored frameworks that define reality. This issue of Perspecta considers the complexities and potentialities of architectural concealment, obfuscation, and mimicry; of the power inherent in architecture’s expanding capacity as media. In the veiled extents of our physical and digital worlds, what is still not found? Contributors APRDELESP and Xavier Nueno Guitart, Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann, Esther M. Choi, feminist architecture collaborative, Marianela D’Aprile and Douglas Spencer, Theo Deutinger and Christopher Clarkson, DESIGN EARTH, David Freeland and Brennan Buck, Linda Gordon, Noah Kalina, Dana Karwas, Andrew Economos Miller, M.C. Overholt and Alex Whee Kim, Trevor Paglen, Lukas Pauer, Nina Rappaport, David Sadighian, Matthew Soules, Jerome Tryon, Michael Young

Author : Steven Holtzman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780684846125

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Digital Mosaics by Steven Holtzman Pdf

Through the works of cutting-edge computer artists, composers, and designers, DIGITAL MOSAICS explores the possibilities of the digital medium and how it radically transforms the way art is produced and understood by the audience. Digital expert Steven Holtzman lays the groundwork for the digital and art worlds of our future. Index. 86 illustrations.

Author : Margret Kentgens-Craig
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262611716

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The Bauhaus and America by Margret Kentgens-Craig Pdf

"After the Bauhaus's closing in 1933, many of its protagonists movd to the United States, where their acceptance had to be cultivated. In this book Margret Kentgens-Craig shows that the fame of the Bauhaus in America was the result not only of the inherent qualities of its concepts and products, but also of a unique congruence of cultural supply and demand, of a consistent flow of information, and of fine-tuned marketing. Thus the history of the American reception of the Bauhaus in the 1920s and 1930s foreshadows the paterns of fame-making that became typical of the post-World War II art world."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Eric Dienstfrey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 9780520379558

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Making Stereo Fit by Eric Dienstfrey Pdf

"Surround sound is often mistaken as a relatively new phenomenon in cinemas, one that emerged in the 1970s with the arrival of Dolby. Making Stereo Fit shows how Hollywood studios have instead been implementing surround-sound techniques for the past century and argues that their endurance owes primarily to the long-standing economic tension between stereophonic and monophonic sound. Throughout the book, Eric Dienstfrey analyzes newly discovered archival materials, as well as a myriad of stereo releases from Hell's Angels (1930) to Get Out (2017), to examine how Hollywood's dependence on single-channel sound left filmmakers unable to fully realize the aesthetic potential of surround sound. Though studios initially experimented with stereo's unique affordances, Dienstfrey details how film sound designers eventually codified a conservative set of surround-sound conventions that prevail today, despite the arrival of more immersive technologies"--

Author : Miles David Samson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317119319

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Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism by Miles David Samson Pdf

The phase of American architectural history we call 'mid-century modernism,' 1940-1980, saw the spread of Modern Movement tenets of functionalism, social service and anonymity into mainstream practice. It also saw the spread of their seeming opposites. Temples, arcades, domes, and other traditional types occur in both modernist and traditionalist forms from the 1950s to the 1970s. Hut Pavilion Shrine examines this crossroads of modernism and the archetypal, and critiques its buildings and theory. The book centers on one particularly important and omnipresent type, the pavilion - a type which was the basis of major work by Louis I. Kahn, Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson, Minoru Yamasaki, and other eminent architects. While focusing primarily on the architecture culture of the United States, it also includes the work of British, European Team X, and Scandinavian designers and writers. Making connections between formal analysis, historical context, and theory, the book continues lines of inquiry which have been pursued by Neil Levine and Anthony Vidler on representation, and by Sarah Goldhagen and Alice Friedman on modernism’s 'forbidden' elements of the honorific and the visually pleasurable. It highlights the significance of 'pavilionizing' mid-century designers such as Victor Lundy, John Johansen, Eero Saarinen, and Edward Durell Stone, and shows how frequently essentialist and traditionalist types appeared in the roadside vernacular of drive-in restaurants, gas stations, furniture and car showrooms, branch banks, and motels. The book ties together the threads in mid-century architectural theory that addressed aspects of type, 'essential' structure, and primal 'humanistic' aspects of environment-making and discusses how these concerns outlived the mid-century moment, and in the designs and writings of Aldo Rossi and others they paved the way for Post-Modernism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : UOM:39015030248457

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Index of Trademarks Issued from the United States Patent Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : HARVARD:HL366Y

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Index of Trademarks Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Williams Goldhagen,Sarah Goldhagen Williams,Louis I. Kahn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300077866

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Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism by Sarah Williams Goldhagen,Sarah Goldhagen Williams,Louis I. Kahn Pdf

She demonstrates instead that Kahn's architecture is grounded in his deeply held modernist political, social, and artistic ideals, which guided him as he sought to rework modernism into a socially transformative architecture appropriate for the postwar world.".

Author : Korydon Smith,Miguel Guitart
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000992755

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Introducing Architectural Theory by Korydon Smith,Miguel Guitart Pdf

Building on the success of the first edition, an engaging and reader-friendly work on complex ideas, Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding the Disciplinary Debate, broadens the range of themes, voices, and geographies represented to provide a more comprehensive and contemporary theory book. This book presents major discourses in architectural theory and design in a debate-like format, integrating a series of edited texts across architectural history with context and newly written commentaries by the authors. This new edition has been fully revised, updated, and expanded to include long-standing debates, such as simplicity vs. complexity or the relationship between form and function, as well as newer discussions on innovation, globalization, and social equity. Authors Smith and Guitart provide a comprehensive means and conceptual framework for readers to compare multiple points of view. The chapter structure, discussion questions, and additional resources allow teachers to facilitate in-class discussions and writing assignments. This book remains the most accessible architectural theory textbook, written for beginning architecture students and those outside the discipline. Its reflective and critical approach will equally engage the minds of upper-level students and experts.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281146

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1694 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015064553962

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marie Geissler
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527564275

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The Making of Indigenous Australian Contemporary Art by Marie Geissler Pdf

This publication brings together existing research as well as new data to show how Arnhem Land bark painting was critical in the making of Indigenous Australian contemporary art and the self-determination agendas of Indigenous Australians. It identifies how, when and what the shifts in the reception of the art were, especially as they occurred within institutional exhibition displays. Despite key studies already being published on the reception of Aboriginal art in this area, the overall process is not well known or always considered, while the focus has tended to be placed on Western Desert acrylic paintings. This text, however represents a refocus, and addresses this more fully by integrating Arnhem Land bark painting into the contemporary history of Aboriginal art. The trajectory moves from its understanding as a form of ethnographic art, to seeing it as conceptual art and appreciating it for its cultural agency and contemporaneity.

Author : Benjamin Genocchio
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0868407305

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Simeon Nelson by Benjamin Genocchio Pdf

This text presents Simeon Nelson's artworks and allows the reader to interpret them through an accompanying analysis by art critic, Benjamin Genocchio. The text examines the inspiration for Nelson's art, clearly describing its meanings while responding to its immense beauty and wonder.

Author : Terence Riley,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0870701290

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Light Construction by Terence Riley,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Transparency and luminescence have reemerged in the vocabulary of architecture, and light and "lightness" have become key concepts for a significant number of contemporary architects, as well as artists who create installations. Recent work by these designers recalls the use of transparent materials in early modern structures, but they have introduced new ideas and technical solutions. In doing so, they have redefined the relationship between the observer and the structure by interposing elements that both veil and illuminate. In this architecture of lightness, buildings become intangible, structures shed their weight and facades become unstable, dissolving into an often luminous evanescence. The 33 projects illustrated in this book exemplify this emerging sensibility, which is examined in a penetrating essay by Terence Riley, chief curator of the department of architecture and design at The Museum of Modern Art, that places the new work in a broad historic and cultural perspective. More than 30 architects are represented in this international selection, and it includes a broad range of building types, scales and technologies, from the small Leisure Studio created by a group of young Finnish architects to Renzo Piano's enormous Kansai International Airport in Japan. Also shown are the Goetz Collection in Munich by Herzog & de Meuron, the Fondation Cartier in Paris by Jean Nouvel, the ITM Building in Matsuyama, Japan, by Toyo Ito, and a set design by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. Each project includes a description by Terence Riley or Anne Dixon.

Author : Aron Vinegar,Michael J. Golec
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780816650606

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Relearning from Las Vegas by Aron Vinegar,Michael J. Golec Pdf

Evaluates for the first time one of the foundational works in architecture criticism. Immediately on its publication in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas, by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, was hailed as a transformative work in the history and theory of architecture, liberating those in architecture who were trying to find a way out of the straitjacket of architectural orthodoxies. Resonating far beyond the professional and institutional boundaries of the field, the book contributed to a thorough rethinking of modernism and was subsequently taken up as an early manifestation and progenitor of postmodernism.