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Books : \The imaginary Orient : exotic buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe\
Reviews \"The imaginary Orient : exotic buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe,\" by Stefan Koppelkamm (Axel Menges, 2015). Modern buildings with onion-shaped domes, striped polychromy, and rich filigree in dense geometric patterns, evoking a vaguely delimited \"Orient,\" invariably carried a sense of mystery and wonder when they appeared in European cities, parks, and fairs in the 18th and 19th centuries. Their forms were sometimes related to complex theories of the evolutions of civilizations, golden ages, integration through migration or cultural exchange, all the mainstay of the ideologies behind the historical explanations that underpinned so much of the culture of revivalism in architecture. [Revised Publication Abstract]
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Exhibitions : Karl Friedrich Schinkel
The exhibition \"Karl Friedrich Schinkel : geschichte und poesie\" at the Kulturforum in Berlin, Germany, and at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich, Germany, in 2013, is reviewed. It centered around his architectural paintings.
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Bauhaus 1919-1933 : workshops for modernity
\"The Bauhaus, the school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933 brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extradinary conversation about the nature of modern art. Aiming to rethink the very form of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site for a dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that have profoundly shaped the world today. Published to accompany a major exhibition on the Bauhaus at The Museum of Modern Art -- the Museum's first comprehensive treatment of the subject since its famous Bauhaus exhibition of 1938 -- Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity offers a new generational perspective on the twentieth century's most influential experiment in artistic education. Drawing on the three major Bauhaus collections in Germany (the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar), with which the Museum collaborated on the exhibition, Bauhaus 1919-1933 examines the extraordinarily broad spectrum of the school's products, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theater and costume design, and painting and sculpture. Many of the objects discussed and illustrated here have rarely if ever been seen outside Germany. Featuring 475 rich color and black and white reproductions, Bauhaus 1919-1933 includes two comprehensive essays by the exhibition's curators, Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman, that synthesize new perspectives on the Bauhaus. Shorter essays by twenty leading scholars apply contemporary viewpoints to thirty key Bauhaus objects, and an illustrated narrative chronology.\"--Jacket.
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Review of the exhibition \"Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Geschichte und Poesie\" on show at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich (07 Sept. 2012-06 Jan. 2013), featuring architectural drawings and paintings by the German architect (1781-1841). A catalogue accompanying the exhibition is available.
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The complete works of Percier and Fontaine
\"Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine were the official government architects of Napoleon, as well as two of the most celebrated teachers at the legendary Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and were responsible for developing the highly influential neoclassical Empire, or Directoire, style of design. Their designs and renovations can be seen throughout the monuments and structures of Napoleonic France, including extensive renovations to the Louvre and Tuileries palaces, construction of the Arc de Triomphe de Carrousel, as well as their true masterpiece, the Empress Josephine's Chateau de Malmaison, where they designed every interior detail, helping invent and shape the modern field of interior design. This will be the definitive edition on the work of Percier and Fontaine, bringing together their four most influential volumes on architecture and interior design, comprising detailed studies of the most important classical and neoclassical architecture across Europe, as well as their own designs, and featuring an introduction by esteemed architecture critic and historian Barry Bergdoll\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Of Crystals, Cells, and Strata: Natural History and Debates on the Form of a New Architecture in the Nineteenth Century
One of the most peculiar texts of French Romanticism is Jules Michelet’s today little-read tome, L’Insecte (1857), a fascinating forerunner of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis. In Book 2, Chapter 8, entitled ‘De la rénovation de nos arts par l’étude de l’Insecte’ [On the renovation of our arts through studying insects]. Michelet writes there already of two themes that are central to the panorama of intersections between natural history thinking and architectural thought and practice outlined in this essay (itself an interim report on a much longer research project). Here I can take up only some key episodes in the veritable explosion of interest throughout the long nineteenth century (1789 to 1914), and after 1850 in particular: in inorganic and organic nature as sources of inspiration, models even, in the quest to confront the challenges not only of modern society and construction but also of the yearning for a modern style in architecture, and the issue of the new ability to see rather than intuit the inner workings of nature. Michelet writes:
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Frank Lloyd Wright : unpacking the archive
Published for a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this catalog reveals new perspectives on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Structured as a series of inquiries into the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives at Taliesin West, Arizona, the book is a collection of scholarly explorations rather than an attempt to construct a master narrative. Each chapter centers on a key object from the archive that aninvited author has \"unpacked\" -- tracing its meanings and connections, and juxtaposing it with other works from the archive, from MoMA, or from outside collections. The publication aims to open up Wright's work to questions, interrogations and debates, and to highlight interpretations by contemporary scholars, both established Wright experts and others considering this iconic figure from new and illuminating perspectives.
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