6/29/2011
6/19/2011
Fujiwara Muro Architects, Ramp House
A 25 meter-long ramp way that coils around the perimeter of the interior space, the house employs a continuous spatial circulation that allows the inhabitants to drift throughout the levels. Programs are defined and differentiated by stage-like platforms which rest in the center of the floor plan, staggered yet connected. Devoid of any wall partitions, the ramps overlook the space beneath as well as establish multiple sight lines in between levels. Untreated wooden columns punctuate the space while providing structural support for the circulatory slopes.
6/14/2011
The Simulation Art of Ilya Kabakov
Ilya Kabakov created School No.6 in 1993 as a gift to the Chinati Foundation. The work occupies an entire building that is subdivided into rooms reminiscent of an abandoned schoolhouse from the former Soviet Union. The spaces are filled with faded posters, flags, and emblems; everything is broken, boarded-up, and neglected. Bookcases and desks with Russian notebooks and memorabilia scattered throughout the disordered classrooms tell an elliptical story about another place and time. The walls are painted an institutional green, which is peeling. In the center of the building is a courtyard overgrown with grass and weeds. In faded red, glass-enclosed vitrines, Kabakov's poetic writing recounts the stories and recollections of the students' past experience in the school.
Ilya Kabakov was born in 1933 in Dniepropetrovsk, Russia and currently lives on the North Fork of Long Island with his wife and partner Emilia. Major exhibitions include:The Incident in the Museum and other Installations (with Emilia Kabakov), State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (2004); Retrospective, Kunstmuseum, Bern (1999); The Treatment with Memories, Hamburger Banhoff, Hamburg and Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Berlin; The Palace of Projects (with Emilia Kabakov), organized by Artangel, London and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (all 1998); Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale (1997); 23rd Sao Paolo Bienal; Retrospective: De Lesesaal (The Reading Room), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (1996); C'est ici que nous vivons (We Are Living Here), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1995).
6/07/2011
Archistar I Diller Scofidio + Renfro
“Our research topic is space and its limits within our culture” says Elizabeth Diller, explaining the studio’s tactics.
INSTITUTE OF
CONTEMPORARY ART
Museum, Boston, USA, 2006
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THE HIGH LINE
Public Park, New York,
USA 2009
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BLUR BUILDING Exposition Pavilion for Swiss Expo, Yverdon-les-Bains Switzerland 2002 |
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