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Eclectic visual art of modern architecture

THIS is a beautifully illustrated coffee-table book with a strange title but which explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. A professor of architecture and urban design at the University [...]

Posted On : Aug, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Landscape Architects Descend On Hartford's Bushnell Plaza Wi...

As downtown workers line up at food carts and bustle around the Old State House at lunchtime on a summer day, just down Main Street at Bushnell Plaza there is rarely a reason to stop. A large, concrete wall runs along the sidewalk for doz [...]

Posted On : Aug, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Artist Liz Glynn digs through rubble of history, modern time...

Liz Glynn's studio, on the second floor of a mildly shabby Chinatown office complex, is modest in size and extremely cluttered. Shelves are crammed with boxes and bins; tables are loaded with books, piles of snapshots, and odds and en [...]

Posted On : Aug, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Art: Cincinnati Modern Architecture-- A Retrospective

If you automatically think historic architecture must be 19th century or earlier, think again. At the Betts House, itself built in 1804, the exhibition Cincinnati Modern Architecture – A Retrospective opens Saturday to run through S [...]

Posted On : Aug, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Snohetta Defends Its Controversial Design For SF's Museum of...

Snøhetta, the Viking architects of the World Trade Center pavilion and one of our 2011 Most Innovative Companies, unveiled embryonic plans for a hotly anticipated extension to SFMOMA last week and, as these things go, reactions wer [...]

Posted On : Jun, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Wartime Architects: Creating Amid Chaos

The history of architecture during World War II is barely talked about. We all know Albert Speer, the man who slavishly carried out Hitler’s megalomaniacal architectural fantasies; some know about Mies van der Rohe’s exile in [...]

Posted On : Jun, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Architecture in the Givenness - Toward the Difficult Whole A...

Our education is based upon the Classical education. An architect is a mason who has learned Latin. Modern architects seem, however, more likely to have mastered Esperanto. Adolf Loos, “Grundsätzliches von Adolf Loos,” A [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Visual Acoustics at Crocker Art Museum

A special screening of the documentary Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman will be held at the Crocker Art Museum on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 7:00 PM. This film celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, whose phot [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Robust & Modern Family Apartment in Melbourne by dKO Archite...

dKO Architecture have completed the “Prahbu Apartment” in Melbourne CBD, Victoria, Australia. The official project description goes like this: “A quiet retreat nestled above the fracas of its inner-urban environment, th [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Art Stable Designed for Cross Ventilation

Art Stable is an award-winning project in the Cascade neighborhood of South Lake Union in Seattle. Designed by Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig Architects and developed by Point32, Art Stable includes ground-floor commercial and six live [...]

Posted On : Mar, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Heart of Art: In architecture, work with nature

The Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa asks this question, and it embodies the core of my approach to practicing and teaching architecture. I began my own architecture practice with the house you see here. I designed it for myse [...]

Posted On : Mar, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Modern art combines with history

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian's work is grounded in the geometric designs of Islamic tradition, yet reconfigures that ancient aesthetic through the prism of western modern art. Her cut-glass mirror mosaics draw on architectural feat [...]

Posted On : Feb, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

MEGA Expands; Adds Enterprise Architecture Partner in South ...

Since 1999, General DIGITAL has introduced internationally recognized software brands and techniques to the local market and has been the exclusive South African distributor for one EA software brand. By introducing MEGA, General DIGITAL [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

New directions in art: Mohatta Palace Museum

Fortunately, the display described as: `New Directions in Art from Pakistan 1990’ and curated by Naiza Khan, will be running for three months and one will need that time to absorb the profusion of work including installations, vide [...]