Re)Designing Nature features innovative design concepts for nature in the urban context. The publication inspires readers to contemplate our current relationship to nature, and ...
Few painters are as strongly linked to the historical events and political catastrophes of twentieth-century Germany as Otto Dix (1891-1969). Born to a working-class ...
The products conceived by Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni (*1956) are all objects of desire: he has designed a series of timeless, modern ...
Since 1995, Italian photographer Guido Guidi has been working on photographic studies of the Brion familys memorial vault, designed by Carlo Scarpa and located ...
At first glance, the large-format black-and-white photographs by Beate Gütschow (*1970 inMainz) are reminiscent of authentic documentations of urban scenes: monumental architecture, decaying buildings, ...
The first African-American artist to attain art superstardom, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) created a huge oeuvre of drawings and paintings (Julian Schnabel recalls him once ...
This publications contains selected projects that provide an overview of Romero's visions, designs and buildings, documenting the office's accomplishments during its first ten years.
Andreas Feininger (1906-1999) spent his entire adult life exploring the artistic and technical possibilities and limitations of photography. In terms of technique, he was ...
The urban future is a primary concern of urban planners, artists, architects, designers, activists, and myriad other practitioners who have begun to feel an ...
Involving HMKV (Germany), Projekt Atol (Slovenia), the Arts Catalyst (United Kingdom), C-TASC (Canada), and Lorna (Iceland), this collaboration focuses on the global, cultural, and ...
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) is the preeminent representative of Realism and the spearhead of a style of painting committed to socially relevant issues. His lifelike ...
Composed of bright monochrome squares randomly arranged in a grid to create stunning sheets of kaleidoscopic color, Gerhard Richter's 4900 Colors (2007)--the latest result ...
This collection of essays was published on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of Danish painter, sculptor, author, filmmaker, and architect Per Kirkeby. For ...
Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908) is famed for his Vienna Secession building (1898) and the Hochzeitsturm, or Wedding Tower, in Darmstadt (1908). An advocate of ...
On the Water: Palisade Bay is the collaborative initiative of a group of engineers, architects, landscape architects, planners, and students to imagine a "soft ...
Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 1933) is one of Arte Povera's most significant protagonists. It is with the Mirror Paintings that Pistoletto's name is mostly closely ...