Instead of architects talking about their designs, this volume puts clients in the spotlight. It sheds light on the tricky balance of power between the architect and the client, focusing on three visionaries who commissioned buildings which later turned into architectural icons.
Can the museum be viewed as a conceptual structure capable of liberating itself from visual and imaginary content? To address this question, a group of well-known philosophers, theorists, and artists undertook a critical examination of collection and exhibition concepts, especially of those that are orientated toward market success. With current trends toward global museum mergers, large-scale exhibitions, and art light, the participants of this symposium, held at the MAK in Vienna, discuss the possibilities for daring curatorial policies dedicated to presenting art within critical aesthetic contexts and point the way to possible future forms of the museum.
Yves Air Architecture is not about Leap Into the Void, the 1960 photograph of Yves Klein diving out the second story of a building. Rather, it presents the architectural projects and theories of the French conceptual artist in the context of current tendencies toward immateriality in architecture, design, and art. This volume includes reproductions of drawings and other works from the Yves Klein Archive in Paris, as well as essays offering both historical and contemporary perspectives on the artist's work. This will be the first publication and accompanying exhibition focused solely on this body of Klein's work. Also included are the first English translation of Klein's lecture at the Sorbonne in 1959, along with related writings. Essays articulate the importance of Klein's work on the subject of immateriality and cite the evolution of this idea from the 1950s through today. A visual essay illustrates this evolution with examples of works by late modern and contemporary architects, designers, and artists.
A team of internationally renowned architects examines Havana as a model that epitomizes the problems facing major cities in the 20th and 21st sprawling slums and the dire need for housing, the conservation, and restoration of a unique architectural heritage, and the protection of this city from the dangers of an exploding tourist industry.
Zwischen Vision und Realität. Between Vision and Reality
Focusing on pieces from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this volume draws on the world's largest collection of J. & L. Lobmeyr glass, which resides in the MAK. Situated at the interface of art and industry, the MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art has, from the time of its foundation, been a partner to J. & L. Lobmeyr. As an international glass manufacturer, the company has always sought dialogue with artists to produce glass to the highest technical and artistic standards. This catalogue of holdings is an illustrative and scientific survey of the MAK's representative collection of Lobmeyr glassware of the 20th and 21st centuries with detailed information, photos and comparative examples. The volume documents the company's strategies and stages up until today, offering a comprehensive and up-to-date reference for glass lovers and experts.
