RICHARD ROGERS
RICHARD ROGERS. BRITISH ARCHITECT NOTED FOR HIS MODERNIST AND FUNCTIONALIST DESIGNS.ROGERS IS PERHAPS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS WORK ON THE POMPIDOU CENTRE IN
TONY CRAGG
Tony Cragg - In Celebration Of Sculpture by MVDfilm
TONY
CRAGG BRITISH VISUAL ARTIST WHO WORKS MAINLY AS A SCULPTOR. HE WAS THE DIRECTOR OF THE KUNSTAKADEMIE DÜSSELDORF UNTIL
AUGUST 2013. HIS PRACTICE AS A SCULPTOR EMBRACED THE USE OF CHEAP 'EVERYDAY' MATERIALS THAT HE WAS
USED TO HANDLING WHILST WORKING ON BUILDING SITES. (SOMETIMES HE WOULD COLLECT
THESE MATERIALS RIDING SOLO AROUND LONDON ON A TANDEM BICYCLE). WALKING AND
CYCLING WERE IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES FOR HIM, OFTEN IN THE COMPANY OF ARTIST
FRIENDS SUCH AS RICHARD DEACON, RICHARD
LONG, BILL WOODROW AND ROGER ACKLING. THE CRUCIAL QUESTION BECAME ONE OF FINDING A CONTENT. THE CRAGG FOUNDATION IS DEDICATED TO
RESEARCH. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
BUCKMINSTER FULLER AMERICAN ARCHITECT, AUTHOR, DESIGNER, INVENTOR, AND FUTURIST. INVENTING AND POPULARIZING TERMS SUCH AS "SPACESHIP EARTH", EPHEMERALIZATION, AND SYNERGETICS. HE ALSO DEVELOPED NUMEROUS INVENTIONS, THE GEODESIC DOME. CARBON MOLECULES KNOWN AS FULLERENES. INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION BEGAN WITH THE SUCCESS OF HIS HUGE GEODESIC DOMES DURING THE 1950S. FULLER ALSO INTRODUCED SYNERGETICS, TO REFERENCE THE EMPIRICAL STUDY OF SYSTEMS IN TRANSFORMATION, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON TOTAL SYSTEM BEHAVIOR UNPREDICTED BY THE BEHAVIOR OF ANY ISOLATED COMPONENTS. FULLER WAS FOLLOWED (HISTORICALLY) BY OTHER DESIGNERS AND ARCHITECTS, SUCH AS NORMAN FOSTER AND STEVE BAER. FULLER WAS CONCERNED ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY AND ABOUT HUMAN SURVIVAL UNDER THE EXISTING SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM. DEFINING WEALTH IN TERMS OF KNOWLEDGE. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
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ARCHITECTURE,
BUCKMINSTER FULLER,
CULTURE,
SYNERGETICS
12.414 DOINA PETRUSCA & CONSTANTIN PETCOU
FOUNDERS OF ATELIER D’ARCHITECTURE AUTOGÉRÉE, URBAN TACTICS, AAA ACTS AS A PLATFORM FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AND ACTION ON THE CITY AND MUCH OF THEIR WORK IS CARRIED OUT WITH OTHER SPECIALISTS, ARTISTS, RESEARCHERS AND INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS SUCH AS UNIVERSITIES, ARTS ORGANISATIONS AND NGOS, AS WELL AS THE EVENTUAL USERS OF THEIR SPACES. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY
YOUTUBE BREAKFAST IS AN ONLINE LECTURE PROJECT ON SCIENCE, CULTURE AND ART.
JANE JACOBS
JANE JACOBS AMERICAN-CANADIAN WRITER AND ACTIVIST WITH PRIMARY INTEREST IN COMMUNITIES AND URBAN PLANNING AND DECAY. SHE IS BEST KNOWN FOR THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES (1961), A POWERFUL CRITIQUE OF THE URBAN RENEWAL POLICIES OF THE 1950S IN THE UNITED STATES. JACOBS IS EQUALLY WELL KNOWN FOR ORGANIZING GRASSROOTS EFFORTS TO BLOCK URBAN-RENEWAL PROJECTS THAT WOULD HAVE DESTROYED LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
12.412 WANG SHU
WANG SHU CHINESE ARCHITECT BASED IN HANGZHOU , ZHEJIANG HANGZHOU
AD REINHARDT
AD REINHARDT. ABSTRACT PAINTER FROM 1930S AND THROUGH 1960S. PART OF THE MOVEMENT CENTERED AROUND THE BETTY PARSONS GALLERY KNOWN AS ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM. HE WROTE AND LECTURED EXTENSIVELY ON ART AND WAS A MAJOR INFLUENCE ON CONCEPTUAL, MINIMAL ART AND MONOCHROME PAINTING. MOST FAMOUS FOR HIS "BLACK" OR "ULTIMATE" PAINTINGS, HE BELIEVED IN A PHILOSOPHY OF ART HE CALLED ART-AS-ART AND USED HIS WRITING AND SATIRICAL CARTOONS TO ADVOCATE FOR ABSTRACT ART. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
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ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM,
ABSTRACT PAINTING,
AD REINHARDT,
ART,
COLOUR,
CULTURE
11.410 JOHN SOANE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iteJV283wv4
JOHN SOANE. ENGLISH ARCHITECT WHO SPECIALISED IN THE NEO-CLASSICAL STYLE. HIS ARCHITECTURAL WORKS ARE DISTINGUISHED BY THEIR CLEAN LINES, MASSING OF SIMPLE FORM, DECISIVE DETAILING, CAREFUL PROPORTIONS AND SKILFUL USE OF LIGHT SOURCES. THE INFLUENCE OF HIS WORK, COMING AT THE END OF THE GEORGIAN ERA, WAS SWAMPED BY THE REVIVAL STYLES OF THE 19TH CENTURY. HIS BEST-KNOWN WORK WAS THE BANK OF ENGLAND. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
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ARCHITECTURE,
CULTURE,
JOHN SOANE,
NEO-CLASSICAL
YOUTUBE BREAKFAST: 10.332 LE CORBUSIER
YOUTUBE BREAKFAST: 10.332 LE CORBUSIER: retrouver ce média sur http://www.ina.fr/
LE CORBUSIER. SWISS-FRENCH ARCHITECT, DESIGNER, URBANIST, WRITER AND ALSO PAINTER, ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF WHAT NOW IS CALLED MODERN ARCHITECTURE OR THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE. VERS UNE ARCHITECTURE (1923) (TOWARDS AN ARCHITECTURE). IN THE 1930S, LE CORBUSIER EXPANDED AND REFORMULATED HIS IDEAS ON URBANISM, EVENTUALLY PUBLISHING THEM IN LA VILLE RADIEUSE (THE RADIANT CITY) OF 1935. LE CORBUSIER CONTRIBUTED TO A NEW JOURNAL CALLED L'ESPRIT NOUVEAU THAT ADVOCATED THE USE OF MODERN INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES TO TRANSFORM SOCIETY INTO A MORE EFFICIENT ENVIRONMENT WITH A HIGHER STANDARD OF LIVING ON ALL SOCIOECONOMIC LEVELS. FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL D'ARCHITECTURE MODERNE (CIAM). WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
LE CORBUSIER. SWISS-FRENCH ARCHITECT, DESIGNER, URBANIST, WRITER AND ALSO PAINTER, ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF WHAT NOW IS CALLED MODERN ARCHITECTURE OR THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE. VERS UNE ARCHITECTURE (1923) (TOWARDS AN ARCHITECTURE). IN THE 1930S, LE CORBUSIER EXPANDED AND REFORMULATED HIS IDEAS ON URBANISM, EVENTUALLY PUBLISHING THEM IN LA VILLE RADIEUSE (THE RADIANT CITY) OF 1935. LE CORBUSIER CONTRIBUTED TO A NEW JOURNAL CALLED L'ESPRIT NOUVEAU THAT ADVOCATED THE USE OF MODERN INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES TO TRANSFORM SOCIETY INTO A MORE EFFICIENT ENVIRONMENT WITH A HIGHER STANDARD OF LIVING ON ALL SOCIOECONOMIC LEVELS. FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL D'ARCHITECTURE MODERNE (CIAM). WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
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
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ARCHITECTURE,
CULTURE,
DECONSTRUCTION,
PRITZKER,
ZAHA HADID
YAYOI KUSAMA
JAPANESE ARTIST WHOSE PAINTINGS, COLLAGES, SOFT SCULPTURES, PERFORMANCE ART AND ENVIRONMENTAL INSTALLATIONS ALL SHARE AN OBSESSION WITH REPETITION, PATTERN, AND ACCUMULATION. KUSAMA'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 CONTENT. KUSAMAIS 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.
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11.405,
ART,
COLLAGE,
CULTURE,
ENVIROMENTAL INSTALLATION,
PAINTING,
PERFORMANCE,
SOFT SCULPTURE,
YAYOI KUSAMA
11.398 MATTHEW BARNEY
MATHHEW BARNEY. AMERICAN ARTIST WHO WORKS IN SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, DRAWING AND FILM. FROM SCULPTURAL INSTALLATIONS COMBINED WITH PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO. HE CREATED THE CREMASTER CYCLE. DRAWING RESTRAINTS 1–6 (1987–89) WERE DOCUMENTED WITH VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHY. A MAJOR PROJECT CONSISTING OF A FEATURE-LENGTH FILM WITH SOUNDTRACK COMPOSED BY BJÖRK, LARGE-SCALE SCULPTURES, PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS, HIS GRAPHITE AND PETROLEUM JELLY DRAWINGS. HE HAS EXPLORED LIVE PERFORMANCE BEFORE AN AUDIENCE A RITUALISTIC EXPLORATION OF EGYPTIAN SYMBOLISM IN ANCIENT NIGHTS. WIKI VIEW HISTORY.
11.397 BENOIT MANDELBROT
FRENCH AMERICAN MATHEMATICIAN. FATHER OF FRACTAL GEOMETRY. MANDELBROT COINED THE TERM FRACTAL AND PUBLISHED HIS IDEAS IN LES OBJETS FRACTALS, FORME, HASARD ET DIMENSION (1975; AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION FRACTALS: FORM, CHANCE AND DIMENSION WAS PUBLISHED IN 1977). HE BELIEVED THAT FRACTALS, FAR FROM BEING UNNATURAL, WERE IN MANY WAYS MORE INTUITIVE AND NATURAL THAN THE ARTIFICIALLY SMOOTH OBJECTS OF TRADITIONAL EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY. HE PUBLISHED THE FRACTAL GEOMETRY OF NATURE ACCESSIBLE TO NON-SPECIALISTS. WHERE HE STATED CLOUDS ARE NOT SPHERES, MOUNTAINS ARE NOT CONES, COASTLINES ARE NOT CIRCLES, AND BARK IS NOT SMOOTH, NOR DOES LIGHTNING TRAVEL IN A STRAIGHT LINE. WIKY. VIEW HISTORY
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BENOIT MANDELBROT,
CULTURE,
FRACTAL GEOMETRY,
MATHEMATICS,
SCIENCE
11.392 AI WEI WEI
AI WIE WIE. CHINESE ARTIST, CURATOR, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER, SOCIAL COMMENTATOR, AND ACTIVIST ESTABLISH THE EXPERIMENTAL ARTISTS' GROUP BEIJING EAST VILLAGE AND PUBLISHED THREE BOOKS ABOUT THIS NEW GENERATION BLACK COVER BOOK (1994), WHITE COVER BOOK (1995), AND GRAY COVER BOOK (1997). FOCUSED AT EXPOSING CORRUPTION SCANDAL IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF SICHUAN SCHOOLS THAT COLLAPSED DURING THE 2008 SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE FOR THIS HE CREATED THE INSTALLATION REMEMBERING MADE OUT OF 9000 CHILDREN'S BACKPACKS. IN CHINESE CHARACTERS. IN 2010, SUNFLOWER SEEDS WAS INSTALLED AT THE TATE MODERN TURBINE HALL, ONE HUNDRED MILLION PORCELAIN "SEEDS," HAND-PAINTED IN THE TOWN OF JINGDEZHEN BY 1,600 CHINESE ARTISANS. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
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AI WEIWEI,
ART,
CULTURE,
CURATOR,
INSTALLATION
ÁLVARO SIZA VIEIRA
ÁLVARO SIZA VIEIRA. CONTEMPORARY PORTUGUESE ARCHITECT, WITH FERNANDO TÁVORA, HE IS ONE OF THE REFERENCES OF THE PORTO SCHOOL LISBON
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ÁLVARO SIZA VIEIRA,
ARCHITECTURE,
CULTURE,
PRITZKER
JESSICA STOCKHOLDER
JESSICA STOCKHOLDER AMERICAN SCULPTOR AND INSTALLATION ARTIST. CONCEPTUAL ARTIST. PIONEER OF INSTALLATION ART THAT MIXES EVERYDAY CONSUMER AND HOUSEHOLD OBJECTS WITH HIGH ART TRADITIONS. HER WORKS ARE OFTEN TITLED AFTER LITERARY OR THEATRICAL WORKS. COMMON HOUSEHOLD MATERIALS GATHERED TOGETHER, DISPLAYED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE GALLERY ENVIRONMENT IN A SEEMINGLY HAPHAZARD MANNER, COLORS AND SHAPES RANDOMLY APPLIED. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY
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ART,
CONCEPTUAL,
CULTURE,
INSTALLATION,
JESSICA STOCKHOLDER,
SCULPTURE
10.382 VALIE EXPORT
VALIE EXPORT. AUSTRIAN ARTIST. HER ARTISTIC WORK INCLUDES VIDEO INSTALLATIONS, BODY PERFORMANCES, EXPANDED CINEMA, COMPUTER ANIMATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURES AND PUBLICATIONS. IN 1967, SHE CHANGED HER NAME TO VALIE EXPORT (WRITTEN IN UPPERCASE LETTERS). HER EXAMINATION OF THE WAYS IN WHICH THE POWER RELATIONS INHERENT IN MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS INSCRIBE WOMEN’S BODIES AND CONSCIOUSNESS DISTINGUISHES VALIE EXPORT’S PROJECT. SHE SUBJECTED HER BODY TO PAIN AND DANGER IN ACTIONS DESIGNED. VALIE EXPORT'S GROUNDBREAKING VIDEO PIECE, "FACING A FAMILY" (1971) WAS ONE OF THE FIRST INSTANCES OF TELEVISION INTERVENTION AND BROADCASTING VIDEO ART. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
JACQUES LACAN
JACQUES LACAN FRENCH PSYCHOANALYST AND PSYCHIATRIST WHO MADE PROMINENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO PSYCHOANALYSIS, PHILOSOPHY, AND LITERARY THEORY. HIS INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK IS FREUDIAN, FEATURING THE UNCONSCIOUS, THE CASTRATION COMPLEX, THE EGO, IDENTIFICATION, AND LANGUAGE AS SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTION. HIS IDEAS HAVE HAD A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON CRITICAL THEORY, LITERARY THEORY, TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH PHILOSOPHY, SOCIOLOGY, FEMINIST THEORY. THE ANALYTIC FIELD IS THE ONLY PLACE FROM WHICH IT IS POSSIBLE TO QUESTION THE INSUFFICIENCIES OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
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CULTURE,
JACQUES LACAN,
PSYCHOANALYSIS,
PSYCHOLOGY
10.371 ALLEN GINSBERG
ALLEN GINSBERG. AMERICAN POET WHO VIGOROUSLY OPPOSED MILITARISM, MATERIALISM AND SEXUAL REPRESSION. IN THE 1950S, GINSBERG WAS A LEADING FIGURE OF THE BEAT GENERATION, AN ANARCHIC GROUP OF YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO COMBINED POETRY, SONG, SEX, WINE AND ILLICIT DRUGS WITH PASSIONATE POLITICAL IDEAS THAT CHAMPIONED PERSONAL FREEDOMS. GINSBERG'S EPIC POEM HOWL, IN WHICH HE CELEBRATES HIS FELLOW "ANGELHEADED HIPSTERS" AND EXCORIATES WHAT HE SAW AS THE DESTRUCTIVE FORCES OF CAPITALISM AND CONFORMITY IN THE UNITED STATES. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
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ALLEN GINSBERG,
BEAT GENERATION,
CULTURE,
LITERATURE,
POETRY
10.367 BILL GATES
BILL GATES. AMERICAN CHAIRMAN OF MICROSOFT, THE SOFTWARE COMPANY HE FOUNDED WITH PAUL ALLEN. DURING HIS CAREER AT MICROSOFT, GATES HELD THE POSITIONS OF CEO AND CHIEF SOFTWARE ARCHITECT. HE HAS ALSO AUTHORED OR CO-AUTHORED SEVERAL BOOKS. WITH PAUL ALLEN HE DEVELOPED AN ALTAIR EMULATOR THAT RAN ON A MINICOMPUTER, AND THEN THE BASIC INTERPRETER. IT RESULTED IN A DEAL WITH MIT TO DISTRIBUTE THE INTERPRETER AS ALTAIR BASIC. AFTER THAT THEY NAMED THEIR PARTNERSHIP "MICRO-SOFT" AND GATES NEVER RETURNED TO HARVARD TO COMPLETE HIS STUDIES. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
10.366 NORMAN FOSTER
NORMAN FOSTER. BRITISH ARCHITECT WHOSE COMPANY MAINTAINS AN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN PRACTICE. AT YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, HE MET FORMER BUSINESS PARTNER RICHARD ROGERS. 1968 SAW THE BEGINNING OF A LONG PERIOD OF COLLABORATION WITH AMERICAN ARCHITECT RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER, WHICH CONTINUED UNTIL FULLER'S DEATH IN 1983, CATALYSTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE APPROACH TO DESIGN - FOSTER CREATED OPEN-PLAN OFFICE FLOORS LONG BEFORE OPEN-PLAN BECAME THE NORM. IN A TOWN NOT OVER-ENDOWED WITH PUBLIC FACILITIES, THE ROOF GARDENS, 25M SWIMMING POOL AND GYMNASIUM GREATLY ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE COMPANY'S 1200 EMPLOYEES. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
10.363 FRANK GEHRY
FRANK GHERY CANADIAN-AMERICAN PRITZKER PRIZE-WINNING ARCHITECT. HIS BUILDINGS, INCLUDING HIS PRIVATE RESIDENCE, HAVE BECOME TOURIST ATTRACTIONS. MUSEUMS, COMPANIES, AND CITIES SEEK GEHRY'S SERVICES AS A BADGE OF DISTINCTION, BEYOND THE PRODUCT HE DELIVERS. DECONSTRUCTIVISM IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS POST STRUCTURALIST. IN NATURE FOR ITS ABILITY TO GO BEYOND CURRENT MODALITIES OF STRUCTURAL DEFINITION. GEHRY CAME TO THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC IN 1972 WITH HIS "EASY EDGES" CARDBOARD FURNITURE. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
10.361 RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER
RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER. MEXICAN-CANADIAN ELECTRONIC ARTIST WHO WORKS WITH IDEAS FROM ARCHITECTURE, TECHNOLOGICAL THEATER AND PERFORMANCE. RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER IS BEST KNOWN FOR CREATING THEATRICAL INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS IN PUBLIC SPACES. USING ROBOTICS, REAL-TIME COMPUTER GRAPHICS, FILM PROJECTIONS, POSITIONAL SOUND, INTERNET LINKS, CELL PHONE INTERFACES, VIDEO AND ULTRASONIC SENSORS, LED SCREENS AND OTHER DEVICES, HIS INSTALLATIONS SEEK TO INTERRUPT THE INCREASINGLY HOMOGENIZED URBAN CONDITION BY PROVIDING CRITICAL PLATFORMS FOR PARTICIPATION. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
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ART,
CULTURE,
ELECTRONIC,
RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER,
SCIENCE
I.M. PEI
I.M. PEI CHINESE-BORN AMERICAN ARCHITECT. IN 1935, PEI MOVED TO THE UNITED STATES. SPENT HIS FREE TIME RESEARCHING THE EMERGING MASTERS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE, ESPECIALLY LE CORBUSIER. HE JOINED THE HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN (GSD) AND BECAME FRIENDS WITH THE BAUHAUS ARCHITECTS WALTER GROPIUS AND MARCEL BREUER. IN THE LATE 1980S, PEI WAS THE FOCUS OF A HUGE CONTROVERSY WHEN HE DESIGNED A GLASS-AND-STEEL PYRAMID FOR THE LOUVRE MUSEUM IN PARIS. PEI WAS INSPIRED BY THE INNOVATIVE DESIGNS OF THE NEW INTERNATIONAL STYLE, CHARACTERIZED BY SIMPLIFIED FORM AND THE USE OF CONCRETE, STEEL AND GLASS MATERIALS. PRITZKER PRIZE, 1983. WIKI HISTORY.
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ARCHITECTURE,
CULTURE,
I.M. PEI,
PRITZKER
10.356 LOUISE NEVELSON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&list=PL441BB7F036D37CD1&v=DJ8zcXmVwqo
LOUISE NEVELSON. AMERICAN ARTIST. NEVELSON IS KNOWN FOR HER ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST “CRATES” GROUPED TOGETHER TO FORM A NEW CREATION. SHE USED FOUND OBJECTS OR EVERYDAY DISCARDED THINGS IN ER “ASSEMBLAGES” OR ASSEMBLIES, ONE OF WHICH WAS THREE STORIES HIGH: "WHEN YOU PUT TOGETHER THINGS THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE THROWN OUT, YOU’RE REALLY BRINGING THEM TO LIFE – A SPIRITUAL LIFE THAT SURPASSES THE LIFE FOR WHICH THEY WERE ORIGINALLY CREATED." NEVELSON'S WORK HAS BEEN LINKED TO CUBISM, DADA, SURREALISM, ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, MINIMALISM, FEMINISM, AND INSTALLATION ART. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
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ART,
CULTURE,
LOUISE NEVELSON,
SCULPTURE
SANTIAGO SIERRA
SANTIAGO SIERRA. SPANISH ARTIST. HE LIVES IN MEXICO CITY. SIERRA'S WORK REFLECTS HIS VIEWS ON CAPITALISM, LABOR, AND EXPLOITATION. FOR INSTANCE, HE PAID A GROUP OF WORKERS TO MOVE A HEAVY ROCK FROM A POINT A TO A POINT B AND VICE VERSA. ON ANOTHER OCCASION HE PAID DRUG-ADDICTED PROSTITUTES FROM BRAZIL IN THEIR DRUG OF CHOICE TO LET THEM HAVE A LINE TATTOOED ACROSS THEIR BACKS. HE ALSO CAUSED CONTROVERSY BY COVERING TEN IRAQI IMMIGRANTS IN INSULATING POLYURETHANE FOAM AND WAITING FOR IT TO HARDEN. ANOTHER OF HIS WELL KNOWN PROJECTS IS A ROOM OF MUD IN HANOVER, GERMANY, COMMEMORATING THE JOB-CREATION MEASURE ORIGIN OF THE MASCHSEE. IN 2006, HE PROVOKED CONTROVERSY WITH HIS INSTALLATION "245 CUBIC METRES", A GAS CHAMBER CREATED INSIDE A FORMER SYNAGOGUE IN PULHEIM, GERMANY. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
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ART,
CAPITALISM,
CULTURE,
EXPLOITATION,
LABOR,
SANTIAGO SIERRA
10.338 KAZUJO SEJIMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL4EA4EA0F9F3FD494&v=p189Fxs4lmw&feature=player_embedded
KAZUJO SEJIMA. JAPANESE ARCHITECT. AFTER STUDYING AT JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY AND WORKING IN THE OFFICE OF TOYO ITO, IN 1987 SHE FOUNDED KAZUYO SEJIMA AND ASSOCIATES. IN 1995 SHE FOUNDED THE TOKYO-BASED FIRM SANAA (SEJIMA AND NISHIZAWA AND ASSOCIATES) TOGETHER WITH HER FORMER EMPLOYEE RYUE NISHIZAWA. SEJIMA HAS BEEN APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE ARCHITECTURE SECTOR FOR THE VENICE BIENNALE, FOR WHICH SHE WILL CURATE THE 12TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION, TO BE HELD IN 2010. SHE IS THE FIRST WOMAN EVER SELECTED FOR THIS POSITION. PRITZKER PRIZE 2010, SECOND WOMEN TO WIN THE PRITZKER SINCE 1979. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
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ARCHITECTURE,
CULTURE,
KAZUJO SEJIMA,
PRITZKER
10.337 PAUL MCCARTHY
http://www.ubu.com/film/mccarthy_painter.html
PAUL MCCARTHY. CONTEMPORARY ARTIST WHO LIVES AND WORKS IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. MCCARTHY STUDIED AT THE SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE. IN 1972 HE STUDIED FILM, VIDEO AND ART AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. FROM 1982 TO 2002 HE HAS TAUGHT PERFORMANCE, VIDEO, INSTALLATION, AND PERFORMANCE ART HISTORY. MCCARTHY CURRENTLY WORKS MAINLY IN VIDEO AND SCULPTURE. TRAINED AS A PAINTER, MCCARTHY'S MAIN INTEREST LIES IN EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES AND THE MESS CREATED BY THEM. MUCH OF HIS WORK IN THE LATE 1960S, SUCH AS MOUNTAIN BOWLING (1969) AND HOLD AN APPLE IN YOUR ARMPIT (1970) ARE SIMILAR TO THE WORK OF HAPPENINGS FOUNDER ALLAN KAPROW, WITH WHOM MCCARTHY HAD A PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
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ART,
CULTURE,
INSTALLATION,
PAUL MCCARTHY,
PERFORMANCE,
VIDEO
JOEP VAN LIESHOUT
ATELIER VAN LIESHOUT (AVL), FOUNDED BY ARTIST JOEP VAN LIESHOUT (1963) IN 1995, IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY ART PRACTICE ENCOMPASSING INSTALLATION, DESIGN, FURNITURE AND ARCHITECTURE. THE NAME ATELIER VAN LIESHOUT EMPHASISES THE FACT THAT THE WORKS OF ART DO NOT STEM SOLELY FROM THE CREATIVE BRAIN OF JOEP VAN LIESHOUT, BUT ARE PRODUCED BY A CREATIVE TEAM OF ARTISTS, DESIGNERS AND ARCHITECTS. THE WORKS OF ART ARE PRACTICAL, UNCOMPLICATED AND SUBSTANTIAL. THE WORK VARIES FROM SCULPTURES AND FURNITURE, BATHROOMS AND MOBILE HOME UNITS TO LARGE INSTALLATIONS AND COMPLETE ARCHITECTURAL REFURBISHMENTS. ONE OF THE MANY APPLICATIONS AND TECHNIQUES USED BY AVL ARE THE LARGE POLYESTER CONSTRUCTIONS IN STRIKING, BRIGHT COLOURS. THESE POLYESTER CONSTRUCTIONS, OF WHICH THE LARGE MOBILE HOME UNITS ARE THE BEST KNOWN, FORM THE AVL TRADEMARK. RECURRING THEMES IN THE WORK OF AVL ARE AUTARKY, POWER, POLITICS AND SEX.
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ART,
CULTURE,
JOEP VAN LIESHOUT,
POLYESTER
10.333 RICHARD SERRA
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/2777
RICHARD SERRA. AMERICAN MINIMALIST SCULPTOR KNOWN FOR HIS CONSTRUCTIONS FROM LARGE ROLLS AND SHEETS OF METAL (COR-TEN-STEEL). MANY OF THESE PIECES ARE SELF-SUPPORTING AND EMPHASIZE THE WEIGHT AND NATURE OF THE MATERIALS. SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS, IN 1981, SERRA INSTALLED TILTED ARC, A GENTLY CURVED, 3.5 METER HIGH ARC OF RUSTING MILD STEEL IN THE FEDERAL PLAZA IN NEW YORK CITY. TO SEE IS TO THINK, TO CHANGE MEANINGS THROUGH PERCEPTION. NOTIONS OF PROCESS TIME AND SPACE ARE BEEING EXPLORED WITH FORMS NEVER BUILT BEFORE. 2007 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTED A RETROSPECTIVE OF SERRA'S WORK IN NEW YORK. INTERSECTION II (1992-1993) AND TORQUED ELLIPSE IV (1998) AMONG THE WORKS. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
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ART,
CULTURE,
RICHARD SERRA,
SCULPTURE
10.332 LE CORBUSIER
retrouver ce média sur http://www.ina.fr/art-et-culture/architecture/video/I05290951/le-corbusier-expose-son-plan-d-urbanisme-pour-paris.fr.html
LE CORBUSIER. SWISS-FRENCH ARCHITECT, DESIGNER, URBANIST, WRITER AND ALSO PAINTER, ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF WHAT NOW IS CALLED MODERN ARCHITECTURE OR THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE. VERS UNE ARCHITECTURE (1923) (TOWARDS AN ARCHITECTURE). IN THE 1930S, LE CORBUSIER EXPANDED AND REFORMULATED HIS IDEAS ON URBANISM, EVENTUALLY PUBLISHING THEM IN LA VILLE RADIEUSE (THE RADIANT CITY) OF 1935. LE CORBUSIER CONTRIBUTED TO A NEW JOURNAL CALLED L'ESPRIT NOUVEAU THAT ADVOCATED THE USE OF MODERN INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES TO TRANSFORM SOCIETY INTO A MORE EFFICIENT ENVIRONMENT WITH A HIGHER STANDARD OF LIVING ON ALL SOCIOECONOMIC LEVELS. FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL D'ARCHITECTURE MODERNE (CIAM). WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
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ARCHITECTURE,
CIAM,
CULTURE,
LE CORBUSIER,
URBAN PLANNING
10.328 THOMAS HIRSCHHORN
THOMAS HIRSCHHORN. PART OF THE GROUP OF DESIGNERS CALLED GRAPUS. THESE ARTISTS WERE CONCERNED WITH POLITICS AND CULTURE, DISPLAYING IMPROMPTU CREATIONS AND POSTERS ON THE STREET MOSTLY USING THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISEMENT. HE LEFT GRAPUS TO CREATE THE HYPERSATURATED INSTALLATIONS HE IS KNOWN FOR TODAY, USING COMMON MATERIALS SUCH AS CARDBOARD, FOIL, DUCT TAPE, AND PLASTIC WRAP. THESE INSTALLATIONS ARE OFTEN SITE SPECIFIC AND OUTSIDE THE GALLERY, AND/OR INTERACTIVE. UNLIKE MUCH TOTAL INSTALLATION WORK, THE VIEWER IS AN OBSERVER NOT AN ACTOR IN THE SPACES HE CREATES BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE CONTINUES TO OFFER MESSAGES IN HIS WORK AS HE DID WITH GRAPUS. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.
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ART,
CULTURE,
GRAPUS,
INSTALLATION,
THOMAS HIRSCHHORN
10.327 DONNA HARAWAY
DONNA HARAWAY. PROFESSOR AND CHAIR OF THE HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS. SHE IS THE AUTHOR OF, PRIMATE VISIONS: GENDER, RACE, AND NATURE IN THE WORLD OF MODERN SCIENCE (1989), SIMIANS, CYBORGS, AND WOMEN: THE REINVENTION OF NATURE (1991), MODEST WITNESS@SECOND MILLENIUM. FEMALEMAN MEETS ONCOMOUSE: FEMINISM AND TECHNOSCIENCE (1997), THE COMPANION SPECIES MANIFESTO: DOGS, PEOPLE, AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERNESS (2003), AND WHEN SPECIES MEET (2008). SHE LIVED IN
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BIOLOGY,
CULTURE,
CYBORGS,
DONNA HARAWAY,
ONTOLOGY,
PHILOSOPHY,
SCIENCE
10.322 HANNAH ARENDT
GERMAN POLITICAL THEORIST. ARENDT'S WORK CENTERS ON THE FACT THAT "MEN, NOT MAN, LIVE ON THE EARTH AND INHABIT THE WORLD" ARENDT'S WORK DEALS WITH THE NATURE OF POWER, AND THE SUBJECTS OF POLITICS, AUTHORITY, AND TOTALITARIANISM. MUCH OF HER WORK FOCUSES ON AFFIRMING A CONCEPTION OF FREEDOM WHICH IS SYNONYMOUS WITH COLLECTIVE POLITICAL ACTION AMONG EQUALS. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG, SHE STUDIED PHILOSOPHY WITH MARTIN HEIDEGGER IN 1950, SHE BECAME A NATURALIZED CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES. IN 1959, SHE BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN APPOINTED TO A FULL PROFESSORSHIP AT PRINCETON.
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CULTURE,
HANNAH ARENDT,
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY,
POLITICAL THEORY
10.321 MARINA ABRAMOVIC
MARINA ABRAMOVIC. SERBIAN PERFORMANCE ARTIST. ACTIVE FOR OVER THREE DECADES. ABRAMOVIĆ'S WORK EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE, THE LIMITS OF THE BODY, AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE MIND. ABRAMOVIĆ BEGAN TO CONSIDER THE STATE OF
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ART,
CULTURE,
MARINA ABRAMOVIC,
PERFORMANCE
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