Monday, June 13, 2011

11.406 ZAHA HADID





ZAHA HADID. IRAQI-BRITISH ARCHITECT. SHE WORKED WITH REM KOOLHAAS AND ELIA ZENGHELIS AT THE OFFICE FOR METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE, BECOMING A PARTNER IN 1977. IT WAS WITH KOOLHAAS THAT SHE MET THE ENGINEER PETER RICE WHO GAVE HER SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT EARLY ON, AT A TIME WHEN HER WORK SEEMED DIFFICULT TO BUILD. IN 2004 HADID BECAME THE FIRST FEMALE RECIPIENT OF THE PRITZKER IN 2006, HADID WAS HONORED WITH A RETROSPECTIVE SPANNING HER ENTIRE WORK AT THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM IN NEW YORK. IN 2008, SHE RANKED 69TH ON THE FORBES LIST OF "THE WORLD'S 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN". WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.


Thursday, June 9, 2011

YAYOI KUSAMA




JAPANESE ARTIST WHOSE PAINTINGS, COLLAGES, SOFT SCULPTURES, PERFORMANCE ART AND ENVIRONMENTAL INSTALLATIONS ALL SHARE AN OBSESSION WITH REPETITION, PATTERN, AND ACCUMULATIONKUSAMA'S WORK IS BASED INCONCEPTUAL ART AND SHOWS SOME ATTRIBUTES OF FEMINISM, MINIMALISM, SURREALISM, ART BRUT, POP ART, AND ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, AND IS INFUSED WITH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SEXUAL CONTENTKUSAMAIS ALSO A PUBLISHED NOVELIST AND POET, AND HAS CREATED NOTABLE WORK IN FILM AND FASHION DESIGN. 2008 CHRISTIES NEW YORK SOLD A WORK BY HER FOR $5.1 MILLION, A RECORD FOR A LIVING FEMALE ARTIST.  WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

11.404 PHILIP KOTLER




PHILIP KOTLER AMERICAN ECONOMIST. RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS AND IN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE. PROFESSOR KOTLER'S BOOK, MARKETING MANAGEMENT, IS THE WORLD'S MOST WIDELY USED GRADUATE LEVEL TEXTBOOK IN MARKETING. HIS OTHER TEXTBOOKS INCLUDE PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING AND MARKETING: AN INTRODUCTION. KOTLER DEVELOPED NEW CONCEPTS IN MARKETING INCLUDING DEMARKETING, MEGAMARKETING, TURBOMARKETING AND SYNCHROMARKETING. HE BELIEVES THAT MARKETING THEORY NEEDS TO GO BEYOND PRICE THEORY AND INCORPORATE THE DYNAMICS OF INNOVATION, DISTRIBUTION AND PROMOTION SYSTEMS INTO ANALYZING, EXPLAINING AND PREDICTING ECONOMIC OUTCOMES. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.