Author : Marion Ackermann
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art museum architecture
ISBN :
Documents the design and construction of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart by Hascher Jehle Architektur, which opened in Mar. 2005.
Author : Christian Schittich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3034615086
The external facades of a building are more than a protective mantle, or an intelligent skin regulating temperature and light, they also determine its very appearance. By unusual choices of materials and the use of complex technology, facades have become increasingly significant in recent years. External surfaces are being perceived as an integral part of the building and are therefore being designed as such. This volume focuses on the wide-ranging aspects of facade design, from the selection and use of materials to the advanced technical possibilities now open to the architect. A wide array of carefully selected international examples show the theory in the practice. All plans, details, and large scale sections of the facades have been researched with the high degree of competence typical of the editorial staff from the review Detail. Expert authors provide the essential information needed to plan and design facades and elucidate on the latest developments in technology and materials.
Author : Michelle Corrodi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 14,78 MB
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3038216410
The image of open working and living spaces flooded with light has, more than any other, become fixed in our minds as a symbol of modernity and the spirit of the times. While the workplace has always been the focus of ergonomic studies and optimization with respect to a good provision of daylight, large glass surfaces have now become the order of the day for living spaces as well. But does this automatically make for better illumination? Taking this question as its starting point, the publication Illuminating thematizes central aspects of light planning, including the connection between the provision of daylight and architectural design, building orientation, the nature of the facade, the ground plan, comfort, and the proportions and atmosphere of rooms. In the process, general characteristics and fundamental principles as well as subtle facets of an intelligent treatment of daylight are discussed and critically examined within an expanded architecture- and culture-historical context.
Author : V. Crisp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2015-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137471026
New media technologies impact cinema well beyond the screen. This volume speculates about the changes in modes of accessing, distributing, storing and promoting moving images and how they might affect cinematographic experience, economy and historiography.
Author : Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN :
At last, the broader movements of twentieth-century Swiss art--and the individual artists behind them--are tracked through the present day in one standard-setting publication. Swiss Made: Precision and Madness sets the famous Swiss tendency toward precision and order alongside the tendency toward obstinacy and chaos, pairing canonical works with pieces made within the past 40 years. Provocative pairs include Max Bill and John Armleder, Ferdinand Hodler and Urs Lüthi, Alberto Giacometti and Rémy Zaugg, Louis Soutter and Martin Disler, Robert Müller and Sylvie Fleury, Paul Klee and Silvia Bächli, Adolph Wölfli and Ugo Rondinone. Tensions emerge between the focused and the expansive, over everyday life in the Swiss state, and naturally over the mountains. Swiss Made: Precision and Madness is of interest on its own analytic terms, and as an excellent overview of the country's art since 1850.
Author : Jan Bürger
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 3775756000
The search for "the face of the era" how typology influenced art of the Weimar Republic and beyond In Weimar Germany, portraits by New Objectivity artists such as Otto Dix, George Grosz, Jeanne Mammen and Hanna Nagel were a testimony to the fascination with "types." This volume explores their relevance from the 1920s to the present day, underscoring the dilemma of stereotyping individuals.
Author : Zlatan Krajina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134689179
This book is an interdisciplinary empirical investigation of how people interact with public screens in their daily lives. In more and more surprising locations, screens of various kinds appear within the sightlines of passers-by in contemporary cities. Outdoor advertisers target audiences which are increasingly mobile, public art uses screens to interrogate urban change, while postmodern architecture finds electronic imagery a suitable tool of expression. Traditionally, urban sociology research has assumed that people seek to filter urban stimuli, but recent accounts of public screens suggest producers design and position display interfaces site-specifically, so as to engage with those moving past. This study offers insight both into the dynamics of actual encounters and into the long-term process of how people learn to live with repeated invitations to consume media in public spaces. The book includes four cases: street advertising, underground transport advertising, and installation art in London (UK) and media façade architecture in Zadar (Croatia). Krajina shows that maintaining familiarity with everyday surroundings in media cities that change beyond citizens' control is a temporary achievement--and a recursive struggle. Finalist for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Foundation book award, 2014
Author : Ulrike Groos
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN :
Tracing the phenomenon of ecstasy in art and cultural history, this book illuminates the various spiritual, political, psychological, social, sexual and aesthetic implications of euphoric and intoxicated states between asceticism and excess. Artworks from antiquity to the present time show the various facets of mind-altering states while taking different cultural regions into consideration.
Author : Philip J. C. Dark
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780824815738
“The great value of [this work] is the uniformly high quality of papers and their revelation of contemporary trends in Oceanic art research.” —Ethnoarts
Author : Niharika Dinkar
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 1526139650
Light was central to the visual politics and imaginative geographies of empire, even beyond its role as a symbol of knowledge and progress in post-Enlightenment narratives. This book describes how imperial mappings of geographical space in terms of ‘cities of light’ and ‘hearts of darkness’ coincided with the industrialisation of light (in homes, streets, theatres) and its instrumentalisation through new representative forms (photography, film, magic lanterns, theatrical lighting). Cataloguing the imperial vision in its engagement with colonial India, the book evaluates responses by the celebrated Indian painter Ravi Varma (1848–1906) to reveal the centrality of light in technologies of vision, not merely as an ideological effect but as a material presence that produces spaces and inscribes bodies.
