Saving Place- 50 Years of New York City Landmarks
Published in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Landmarks Law, and a major exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, Saving Place tells its story in essays by notable New Yorkers and preservationists. It evaluates contemporary additions to landmarks (the Hearst Tower, the Jewish… Continue reading
Portman’s America & Other Speculations
Portman’s America & Other Speculations takes an unconventional and speculative approach towards the understanding and future potentials of the work of one of the world’s most creative, controversial, daring, and prolific architects, John Portman. Combining the talents of an architect, artist and developer, he was able to embark on a… Continue reading
HOT TO COLD: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation
Through scorching heat to unforgiving chills, BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group presents a dazzling round-up of adaptive architecture in extreme environments around the world. In coordination with a major exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington, 60 case studies show how structures can become holistic ecosystems of both economic and environmental profit. Exhibition and book Book… Continue reading
Frank Gehry The Fondation Louis Vuitton
Published on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, designed by Frank Gehry, this elegant volume undertakes an in-depth look at the process of design and realisation of the Foundations new premises in Paris. Edited by Frédéric Migayrou, it is filled with sketches, models, drawings, historical… Continue reading
Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age – Alona Pardo
The relationship between architecture and photography is the focus of this book that features the work of eighteen influential artists, from the 1930s to the present day. Architecture has long been a subject matter for photographers, who utilize the medium not just to document the built world, but also to… Continue reading
Serpentine Pavilion 2014
Championing the possibilities of new ideas in contemporary art since opening in 1970, the Serpentine has presented pioneering exhibitions for almost half a century, showing a wide range of work from emerging practitioners to the most internationally recognised artists of our time, providing a place for them to experiment and… Continue reading
Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography – Elias Redston
Photography has always played a vital role in how architecture is communicated. For most of us, it is how we experience the most exceptional, arresting, unreachable, beautiful or ephemeral works we cannot visit in person. With immediate distribution and consumption of imagery now so readily available, photography and architecture together… Continue reading
Architecture Zoo – Parc Zoologique De Paris. The Architectural Project
Conceiving the architecture of a zoo is not all that simple. If the housing of human beings is made up of history, traditions and styles, should that of animals imitate their original habitats? Is it possible to gather together under the same covering the visitors, the technical buildings and the… Continue reading