One of today's best-known contemporary artists, New Leipzig School painter Neo Rauch (born 1960) blends the realistic figuration of Social Realism with Surrealism: brightly ...
The art of Frank Stella (born 1936) transcends the boundaries between painting, sculpture and architecture. Over the course of a five-decade career the artist ...
The first extensive anthology of artists writings and interviews about the concept of sculpture.Over the past twenty years, since theory has begun scrutinizing the ...
The watercolor-like oil paintings by Kerstin Drechsel (*1966 in Reinbek near Hamburg) are distinguished by their sensuality and remarkable sense of relaxation. The artist ...
Jeff Koons (born 1955) has remained constantly in the public eye since he first showed his Equilibrium works--basketballs floating in tanks of water, framed ...
Regardless of the clichés associated with Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Max Beckmann (1884-1950), and Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in the 'public' private sphere, their exploration ...
The oeuvre of El Greco (1541-1614) was first introduced to a broad German audience in 1910, through Julius Meier-Graefe's The Spanish Journey. Numerous artists ...
Here C3 highlights architecture's response to the landscape with 'Land in Tune', presenting a variety of projects, from a private house in the Cyclades ...
This issue of a+u features projects of a small and sustainable nature. From the passive house in Bessancourt, France, by Karawitz Architecture and a ...
Author Fred Feddes threads together 40 stories about the original landscape of present-day Amsterdam, its reclamation, the changing relationship between water and land, and ...
Inspired by the eponymous exhibition shown in Japan in December 2011, and following a recent trend of Korean modern architecture exhibited overseas, this in-depth ...
In this timely guide, one of the world's leaders in advanced building technology implementation shows architects and engineers proven and practical methods for implementing ...
Próxima al compendio de las concepciones de Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) sobre la condición humana y la creación literaria, "El juego de los abalorios" (1943) ...
Es frecuente que la filosofía y la literatura islámicas sean examinadas sólo desde la perspectiva de su hipotética influencia sobre la civilización occidental o ...
Affordable building lots in central locations in the large cities and metropolises are rare. When there are no available gaps in the urban structure, ...
In about 35-25 B.C.E., the Roman architect Vitruvius produced his encyclopedic ten-book summary of the principles of Hellenistic architecture, De architectura (On Architecture). These ...
The internationally renowned Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) created several landmarks of modern design in the United States. The first, the Finland ...
