"Architects on Stage: Stage and Exhibition Design in the 90's" brings together the best and most recent stage settings and exhibition designs by architects of international prestige such as Frank Gehry, Toyo Ito, Jean Nouvel, Enric Miralles, Daniel Libeskind and Joseph Svoboda, to name a few. The works presented here constitute a broad spectrum of designs for exhibitions of architecture and urbanism, including the work of the designers themselves, for art shows and museum exhibitions, or present some specific subject through the creation of a discourse of their own, free from the need to display any particular object: stands for trade fairs, exhibition designs, ephemeral interventions in the urban space, stage designs for theatre or opera and for major music events.

Arquitectos a escena.: Escenografías y montajes de exposición en los 90 (English and Spanish Edition)

Azara, Pedro

Guri, Carlos

Arts & Photography

Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L.

Taking us back to the earliest days of cities—and the earliest days of human civilization—in Mesopotamia, Pedro Azara in Cornerstone offers a contemporary view on the rise and growth of early cities and urban culture. Investigating ruins and exploring archaeological sites, Azara helps us understand how the earliest cities looked and felt, what the first architects and their buildings were like, and what nascent aesthetic ideals they upheld. Azara’s scholarship is rigorous and far-reaching, but his writing is agile, direct, and entertaining as he not only brings the far-distant past to life, but teases out its relevance for our understanding of contemporary culture as well. The result is a fascinating glimpse into our history and a fresh new take on the origins of the civilization of some of our most ancient ancestors.

Cornerstone: The Birth of the City in Mesopotamia

History

Ancient Civilizations

Tenov Books

For their 2019 Venice Biennale pavilion, Catalonia presented an exhibition exploring the life of public statues and reflecting on the capacity of artworks to possess agency. The project considers the often-intense relationship that forms between humans and statues, focusing on fifteen such works from around Catalonia. At times celebrated, vandalized, protected, or destroyed, figurative sculptures have a strange capacity to inspire intense emotions, to make one "lose their head." The collective artist book, To Lose Your Head (Idols), includes written and artistic reflections on the exhibition's theme, exploring the idea of artistic agency as it analyses the passions that are sparked when dealing with figurative sculpture. Pedro Azara, an architect, archaeologist, and professor of aesthetics, explores the perception of images as living entities. Looking at the deep reverence and radical iconoclastic urges inspired by works of public art, he considers how the Western artistic tradition might still be deeply animist. Six contemporary Catalan artists--David Bestué, Lúa Coderch, Lola Lasurt, Daniela Ortiz, Perejaume, and Francesc Torres--take on this question from the perspective of artistic practice, creating works and essays in response to Azara. The publication includes documentation of the exhibition and provides information on accompanying works by playwright Marcel Borràs, architect Tiziano Schürch, and filmmaker Albert García-Alzórriz, in collaboration with poet Gabriel Ventura. &nbsp;

TO LOSE YOUR HEAD (IDOLS): Catalonia in Venice

Torres, Francesc

David, Bestué Guarch

Perejaume, Perejaume

Coderch, Lúa

Lasurt, Lola

Ortiz, Daniela

History & Criticism

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