experiments in building and design Bonnemaison, Sarah. creator Eisenbach, Ronit 1962- text bibliography nyu 2009 monographic eng spa

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192 p. col. ill. ; maps ; 26 cm. Over the last few decades, a rich and increasingly diverse practice has emerged in the art world that invites the public to touch, enter, and experience the work, whether it is in a gallery, on city streets, or in the landscape. Like architecture, many of these temporary artworks aspire to alter viewers' experience of the environment. An installation is usually the end product for an artist, but for architects it can also be a preliminary step in an ongoing design process. Like paper projects designed in the absence of "real" architecture, installations offer architects another way to engage in issues critical to their practice. Direct experimentation with architecture's material and social dimensions engages the public around issues in the built environment that concern them and expands the ways that architecture can participate in and impact people's everyday lives -- The first survey of its kind, Installations by Architects features fifty of the most significant projects from the last twenty-five years by today's most exciting architects, including Anderson Anderson, Philip Beesley, Diller + Scofidio, John Hejduk, Dan Hoffman, and Kuth/Ranieri Architects. Projects are grouped in critical areas of discussion under the themes of tectonics, body, nature, memory, and public space. Each project is supplemented by interviews with the project architects and the discussions of critics and theorists situated within a larger intellectual context. There is no doubt that installations will continue to play a critical role in the practice of architecture. Installations by Architects aims to contribute to the role of installations in sharpening our understanding of the built environment -- Contents: 13 Acknowledgments -- 14 Introduction -- 1 Tectonics : 28 Mark West Fabric formed concrete -- 30 Filum Ltd. Gestures -- 32 Richard Kroeker Phone Book Shed -- 37 Mette Ramsgard Thomsen Vivisection -- 39 Evan Douglis Auto Braids / Auto Breeding -- 46 Chris Bardt Sun Box -- 48 James Cathcart, Frank Fantauzzi and Terence Van Elslander Resistance -- 50 Kourosh Mahvash Albedo -- 2 Body : 58 Dan Hoffman Recording Wall -- 59 Diller + Scofidio Bad Press, Dissident Ironing -- 60 Taeg Nishimoto Re-f(r)action -- 62 Mark Goulthorpe Ether // -- 67 Hodgetts + Fung Body in Action -- 68 Kuth / Ranieri Architects Body in Repose -- 69 Thom Faulders Mute Room -- 70 Frances Bronet Space in the Making -- 72 Anna von Gwinner Trampolinist -- 78 Yolande Daniels FEMMEpissoire -- 79 Arturo Torres and Jorge Christie with Daniela Tobar The Nautilus Project -- 3 Nature -- 86 Pierre Thibault Architecte Winter Gardens -- 88 Marianne Lund Speaking to a Stone -- 90 Philip Beesley Geotextiles -- 98 Mark Robbins Utopian Prospect -- 100 Anderson Anderson with Cameron Scoepp Prairie Ladder -- 102 Ronit Eisenbach filum aquae: The Thread of the Stream -- 107 Tanja Jordan Architects and TK Architecture NhEW -- 110 Allan Wexler Gardening Sukkah -- 4 Memory: 119 Marco Casagrande and Sami Rintala Land e scape -- 120 Detroit Collaborative Design Center, University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture FireBreak -- 129 Richard Kroeker Eye Level -- 130 Craig Barton, Nathaniel Quincy Belcher, Lisa Henry Benham, David Brown, Yolande Daniels, Maria Gooden, Walter Hood, Scott Ruff, William Daryl Williams and Mabel Wilson Places of Refuge : The Dresser Trunk Project -- 132 John Hejduk and the Architectural Association community The Collapse of Time -- 139 Lois Weinthal Berlin : A Renovation pf Postcards -- 142 Atelier in situ Projections and La Machine a Voir -- 5 Public Space: 149 James Cathcart, Frank Fantauzzi, and Terence Van Elslander Toilets -- 150 Périphériques Architectes Pink Ghost -- 151 Arqhé Collective with Blair Taylor Line of Site -- 157 Kennedy & Violich Architects with Linda Pollack and Matthew VanderBourgh Drawing on Site -- 158 Shin Egashira + Okamura Furniture Advanced Engineering Team How to Walk a Flat Elephant -- 162 fieldoffice NY A/V -- 171 Leonardo Mosso Structures of Light -- 174 Lab (au) Touch -- 176 Haque Design + Research Sky Ear -- 180 muf architecture / art Barking Town Square -- 183 Conclusion -- 184 Notes -- 190 Selected Bibliography -- 192 Image credits -- Sarah Bonnemaison and Ronit Eisenbach. Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-191) and index. Installations Art Architects as artists N6494.I56 B66 2009 720.92/2 9781568988504 (alk. paper) 2008055160 pucpr 060910 20260715110903.0 eng