Reader bij Modern Housing Prototypes, Roger Sherwood, 1978 -- [ The design of housing has commanded the attention of the greatest architects of the twentieth century. In this stunning volume, Roger Sherwood presents thirty-two notable examples of multi-family housing from many countries and four continents, selected for their importance as prototypes. Designed by such masters as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Alvar Aalto, they range from single-house clusters to row-houses, terrace houses, party-wall and large-courtyard housing, to urban high-rise towers and slabs. The thirty-two buildings or housing complexes are illustrated with photographs, site plans, floor plans, elevations, and marvelous axonometric drawings. In each case Mr. Sherwood gives background information on the project, mention, factors the architect had to take into consideration (social, environmental, financial), points out creative solutions to particular problems, and comments on special features of the design. Laymen as well as professionals will find his presentations enlightening. In the Introduction, Mr. Sherwood sets forth the basic principles of organization that apply to housing. He analyzes first the limited number of ways in which individual apartments or living units can be laid out (each type or plan lending itself to variations and permutations) and then the ways in which different units can be vertically and horizontally organized within a single building. Drawings and plans of more than eighty housing complexes in twenty countries accompany his analysis. Mr. Sherwood offers his book in the belief that there is no excuse for shoddy architecture; that no branch of architecture is more important than the design of human habitations; and that much is to be learned from the study of significant buildings of the recent past.]

The Art of Working laat zien hoe digitalisering de architectuur en inrichting kan revolutioneren, zodanig dat een verlaging van kosten gepaard gaat met een verhoging van de arbeidsproductiviteit.

In a lakeside scene, a man leans on a graphic of an arrow as if it were a rake handle in the garden; tentacles rise from the shoreline and rectangular speech bubbles hang empty in the yellow sky. In a Dali-esque interior, the corner of a comforter drips off a bed. This major new overview of the work of the Leipzig painter Neo Rauch makes, once again, the case that he is one of the most important artists of his generation. He remains committed to putting brush on canvas in an age when digital media are gaining ground, and among a crowd of similarly dedicated colleagues, he stands out at the forefront. While his work of the 1980s was influenced by Expressionism, his more recent portfolio revels in a new take on Socialist Realism, clearly shaped by the experience of growing up in the former East Germany. Rauch riffs on the once-mandated styles of his youth and on western abstraction from the second half of the twentieth century, all in coloration and figuration that directly allude to the Socialist past. Between cartoon styling and historic technique, he has found a distinctive style, palette and concept. These dreamlike sequences feel both timeless and deeply rooted: Rauch gathers figures from the past in surreal landscapes and interiors to tell enigmatic stories about the present.

Kas Oosterhuis's architecture runs along the fine line seperating or joining it in to the realms of art · Oosterhuis has built all his work, illustrated in this book, around the combination of rigorous design and artistic freedom, while also paying subtle attention to digital technology · His work ranges from the multiform Active Structures of "Trans-ports", an interactive pavilion, to the functional layout of spaces of the Garbage Transfer Station "Elhorst/Vloedbelt", Variomatic S(culptures) and Variomatic L(andscapes), and finally the clever architectural forms of the Helsinki Music Center and the fantastic Programmable Landscapes, a "game" played by a Database on one hand and Intuition on the other · These dialectical relations between design philosophy and clever invention place Oosterhuis's works at the cutting-edge of modern-day architectural design.

Moscow's State Tretyakov Gallery and A.A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum house the world-famous collections of Russian art and theatre design.This publication brings together for the first time a representative selection of works by Jewish artists from these two treasure troves. Some of the artists have great reputations, but most of them have until now remained obscure. Modern Masterpieces from Moscow covers the period from the birth of the Russian avant-garde around 1910 until the height of Stalinism around 1940. It explores the revival of Jewish culture and the position of those Jewish artists who contributed to the revolutionary Soviet art.Abstract works by El Lissitzky and Socialist-Realist paintings by Isaak Brodsky are presented, alongside other artists including Nathan Altmanm Ilya Chashnik, Robert Falk, Yevgeny Katsman, Alexander Labas, Solomon Nikritin, Isaak Rabinovich, Dacid Shterenberg and Alexander Tyshler.Text in English and Dutch.

Architectuurgeschiedenis en architectonische objecten worden door de auteurs niet langer op zichzelf beschouwd, maar geplaatst en gewaardeerd binnen de veranderde maatschappelijke context. Voor het eerst wordt hier het conceptuele systeem van de architectuur onderzocht in relatie met de specifieke maatschappijformatie. Het architectonisch denken heeft de afgelopen jaren zijn waarde voor het architectuuronderwijs bewezen.

Published to accompany a groundbreaking exhibition of film and video works at Tate Modern, Time Zones explores questions around the nature of time itself and the way it is perceived in modern culture. The international selection of artists featured in the publication, including Fikret Atay, Yael Bartana, Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij, Wolfgang Staehle, and Fiona Tan, all produce work that is essentially non-narrative, subtly critiquing our perception of 'hot' new technology and making the passage of time a central feature of their work. Essays by Tate curators Jessica Morgan and Gregor Muir will investigate the themes and offer insight into the individual artists included. Peter Osbourne, Sylviane Agachinski and Irit Rogoff contribute essays exploring our changing perceptions of time from a critical and philosophical viewpoint.

Breed opgezette en gedetailleerde beschrijving van de cultuurhistorische achtergrond van het werk van Jeroen Bosch.

Een historische benadering van duizend jaar bouwopleiding met het vergrootglas op de ontwikkeling van de ambachtsschool en het leerlingstelsel

Beelden zijn er in allerlei soorten. Sommige behoren tot het domein van de beeldende kunst (schilderijen en tekeningen bijvoorbeeld), andere worden gemaakt door een camera of een computer (foto's, films, tv- en digitale beelden). Een derde groep, die wij doorgaans niet als beelden aanduiden, bestaat in het nabootsende spel van kinderen en acteurs. Van een heel andere orde zijn de beelden in ons, de mentale beelden (denkbeelden, herinneringsbeelden, droombeelden). We spreken zelfs van beeldende taal, hoewel het hierbij alleen om woorden gaat. Wat een beeld eigenlijk is, hoe het in elkaar zit, waartoe het dient en hoe men erop reageert is nog nooit het voorwerp geweest van een alomvattende beeldkunde of iconologie. Toch is iedereen overtuigd van de grote invloed van het beeld, zeker in onze 'beeldcultuur' die vaak ervaren wordt als een bedreiging voor het geschreven woord dat sinds mensenheugenis onze beschaving heeft beheerst. Tegelijkertijd erkent men dat het beeld onmisbaar geworden is in vrijwel alle sectoren van communicatie.

Beschrijving van leven en werk van de Nederlandse magisch-realistische schilder (1900-1983)

Traces the development of, and provides a good introduction to, the artist's work.

The author introduces the reader to the essential qualities of Baroque art, telling how mannerism was finally supplanted by Caravaggio's naturalism and relating the new acceptance of sensual experience to a new curiosity about human psychology and the inner life.

As a painter, designer, sculptor, and also a collector of art, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was the leader of the Pont-Aven school and one of the most important post-impressionist painters. Trained in painting by Camille Pissarro, he developed a novel approach to the expression of shapes and colors. His aesthetic researches took him to Brittany before luring him to the Pacific isles on a quest for a lost paradise and a wild nature. His influence on modern painting was to be decisive.

Discusses the founding of modern architecture through the lives and works of four important architects.