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Jugendstil Women and the Making of Modern Design
Jugendstil, that is Germany's distinct engagement with the international Art Nouveau movement, is now firmly engrained in histories of modern art, architecture and design. Recent exhibitions and publications across the world explored Jugendstil's key protagonists and artistic centres to firmly anchor their activities within the trajectories of German modernism. Women, however, continue to be largely absent from these revisionist accounts. Jugendstil Women and the Making of Modern Design argues that women in fact actively participated in the cultural and socio-economic exchanges that generated German design responses to European modernity. By drawing on previously unpublished archival materia...
Exhibition as Interior, Interior as Exhibition
Exhibition design has long been studied in the fields of art, design and architecture, but the focus has been on the design of the exhibition narrative, rather than the design as interior space. This book breaks new ground, exploring the complex relationships which exist between exhibitions, museums and galleries and interior design. Taking a case-study-driven approach, chapters explore a wealth of spaces; looking at contemporary art galleries and globally-renowned museums, and also subverted spaces like squatted homes, high-rises, distilleries and laboratories. Their geographic coverage ranges from socialist Eastern Europe to the US, stopping via many other countries such as Germany, Croati...
A Century of Austrian Design, 1900-2005
"A Century of Austrian Design 1900-2005 is a compact handbook of Austrian design history. Presenting a unique cross-section of Austrian design, it offers both a source of inspiration and a reference work. Set against the backdrop of the country's extremely turbulent industrial history, the book provides a tangible overview of design culture from 1900 until the present. Essays by well-known authors elucidate central aspects and themes. The chronological lexicon presents a selection of significant achievements within Austria's design culture. Address listings for selected designers and design firms offer a final touch, adding to practical value."--BOOK JACKET.
Home
There is probably no more revealing route to understanding the evolution of 20th-century architecture than to examine it through the focus of the individual home. A handful of remarkable houses act as signposts to the shifting preoccupations of the century. From Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Hill House in Helensburgh to Charles and Ray Eames' own house in California, the home has been a powerfully resonant reflection of the essence of architecture. Capturing the revolutionary reinterpretation of space that characterized the beginning of the century, and the adoption of imagery of the machine age, the houses included span from Europe to North and Latin America, India, Japan and Australia.
Friedrich Kiesler Designer
In the 1960s, children born during the international carnage of World War Two were becoming adults: falling in love; starting lives of purpose and promise; discovering family secrets; serving their countries, often involuntarily, and creating a variety of families. While in romantic Honolulu to sell the last family hotel to a group of employees, jaunty Luke meets dazzling Martha, who has been a registered nurse in New Zealand and is sailing from Auckland to her home in San Francisco, with only her dad for a crew. Tragedy strikes before Luke and Martha meet again, souring their reunion with exhaustion, tainting their relationship with deadly threats, issues of national security, and too much truth. Survive together, the FBI insists, or not at all.
The Surreal House
The surreal house / Jane Alison ## he surrealist house as a labyrinth and metaphor of creativity / Dalibor Vesely ## How to house the surrealist imagination? / Mary Ann Caws ## An approach to the interior / Brian Dillon ## Marcel Duchamp, surrealist exhibitions and the restless place / Krzysztof Fijalkowski ## Maisons.
Contested Symmetries
This text features Preston Scott Cohen's intricate geometric symmetries and describes both the mechanics and the theory behind their application. A wealth of projects, including the widely acclaimed Torus House, are represented.
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