Friday, October 28, 2005
ArchiSculpture
Guggenheim BILBAO: 28 October, 2005 - 26 February, 2006
The relationship between architecture and sculpture is one of the most exciting artistic phenomena in the 20th century. Since its birth in the late 19th century, modern sculpture has absorbed key influences from architecture, while contemporary architecture has developed in such sculptural terms that some of the trends look like built versions of modern sculpture. ArchiSculpture examines many aspects of the close, reciprocal relationship between architecture and sculpture. The exhibition is based on a selection of some 180 works of art, models and photographs by the most influential artists and architects contributing to this dialogue between two disciplines. ...
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Herzog & de Meuron An Exhibition
Tate Modern: 1 June – 29 August 2005
This display explores the work of world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron. It offers a penetrating insight into how their vision and style has evolved from their early projects, completed twenty-five years ago, to recent large-scale international commissions, including that of Tate Modern itself. Unlike other architecture exhibitions, the display explores the creative process of making architecture by revealing the by-products or 'waste' produced during the course of the architects' work. ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Robert Mallet-Stevens
Centre Pompidou: April 27 2005 - August 29 2005
Hôtel Martel, 8 rue Mallet-Stevens, Paris. © Photo : Marc Vaux, 1927 - Adagp, Paris 2005
Mallet-Stevens is recognized for his many talents: as an architect, from various buildings such as Villa Noailles in Hyères, the hotels in the street named after him in Paris, and Villa Cavrois in Croix near Lille; as a decorator, for his window dressing for Bally; as an aficionado of the 7th art, for his work with Marcel L'Herbier; for his commitment to the Modern Movement, for his role in the U.A.M. (Union of Modern Artists), etc. This exhibition enables viewers to discover this work in all its glory: his projects in Paris and all over France, as well as his numerous unfinished projects.
Saturday, April 02, 2005
Thom Mayne Pritzker Prize
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
American Maverick Wins Pritzker Prize
By ROBIN POGREBIN
Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, Calif., whose principal architect was Thom Mayne of the Santa Monica firm Morphosis.
Thom Mayne, who has been called the bad boy and angry young man of Los Angeles architecture, will be named today as the winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the profession's highest honor. Mr. Mayne, 61, is the first American to win the prize in 14 years. "I've been such an outsider my whole life," he said in a telephone interview from his office at Morphosis, his firm in Santa Monica, Calif. "It's just kind of startling." http://www.nytimes.comA Cruel Race to Loot the Splendor That Was Angkor
By JANE PERLEZ
Monks at Angkor Wat, one of the temples where antiquities of the 9th to 15th centuries have been looted.
SIEM REAP, Cambodia - Hidden among stands of bamboo far from the throngs of tourists who clamber over the grand temples of Angkor, a series of bas-reliefs in rose and gray sandstone stand in solitary splendor. The gods and demons and half-human, half-animal figures revered by the Angkor civilization were carved at Mount Kulen by anonymous artists and, like countless other artworks, disappeared into nature when the empire collapsed 500 years ago. Advertisement Now, like much else at Angkor, the carvings are symbols not only of the mystique of the past but also of the greed of the present. In the past six months, a head of one of the figures was gouged from the rock, said Sin Sokhorn, a Cambodian guide who often comes to the site by motorcycle. A scar in the rock marked the place where looters had hacked at the statue, leaving a crumpled, headless torso. The head was probably on display in an antiquities shop in Bangkok or in a European city with a handsome price tag, he mused. Or, he suggested, it could be in a private collection of Angkor art, secure from prying eyes. "We need protection from the looters, but where are we to get it?" asked Mr. Sin Sokhorn as he showed the bas-reliefs. ...http://www.nytimes.com
Edited on: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:18 PM
Categories: Architecture, Sculpture
Saturday, March 19, 2005
AIA Honor Awards 2005
by ArchitectureWeek
Outstanding architecture has once again been given a spotlight with the announcement of the 2005 AIA Honor Awards. With a geographic range from Vancouver to Rome, and a range of types from urban highrises to rural hay barns, these works demonstrate distinctive and imaginative responses to place and function.
Thomas W. Ventulett, III, FAIA, chair of the American Institute of Architects jury spoke about the diversity represented by these award-winning buildings. "The recipient projects varied dramatically in program, complexity, scale, site, and typology," he said. "Yet each presented a sensitive and inventive response to its distinct location and special program. Whether a barn or a great urban library, a house or a beautiful church... each illustrated a spirit and ingenuity that inspires both the user and the viewer." ...
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