<p>Transparency and luminescence have reemerged in the vocabulary of architecture, and light and "lightness" have become key concepts for a significant number of contemporary architects, as well as artists who create installations. Recent work by these designers recalls the use of transparent materials in early modern structures, but they have introduced new ideas and technical solutions. In so doing, they have redefined the relationship between the observer and the structure by interposing elements that both veil and illuminate. In this architecture of "lightness," buildings become intangible, structures shed their weight, and facades become unstable, dissolving into an often luminous evanescence. The thirty-three projects illustrated in this book exemplify this emerging sensibility, which is examined in a penetrating essay by Terence Riley, Chief Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, that places the new work in a broad historic and cultural perspective. More than thirty architects are represented in this international selection, and it includes a broad range of building types, scales, and technologies, from the small Leisure Studio created by a group of young Finnish architects to Renzo Piano's enormous Kansai International Airport in Japan. Also shown are the Goetz Collection in Munich by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the Cartier Foundation in Paris by Jean Nouvel, the ITM Building in Matsuyama, Japan, by Toyo Ito, and a set design by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. Each project includes a description by Terence Riley or Anne Dixon, Supervisor, The Lily Auchincloss Study Center for Architecture and Design. Book jacket.</p>

Light Construction: A Museum of Modern Art Book

Arts & Photography

Riley, Terence

Architecture

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

This volume focuses on the architect Philip Johnson's long association with The Museum of Modern Art, with essays examining his roles as patron, as curator, and as the institution's unofficial architect from the late 1940s to the early 1970s.

Philip Johnson and the Museum of Modern Art: Studies in Modern Art 6

VARNEDOE, Kirk

Reed, Peter

Beneš, Mirka

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Paperback: 80 pagesFirst edition: Contemporary Arts Museum (June 1998)

James Turrell: Spirit & Light

Herbert, Lynn

Lienhardt, John

McGehee, J. Pittman

History & Criticism

Contemporary Arts Museum

Everyone is interested in design nowadays; figures like Philippe Starck are as venerated and well known as more traditional artists. But where the literature on fine art is vast, design is still conparatively ill-served. This encyclopaedia provides an account of the still largely unknown story of design.

Design Encyclopedia : The Museum of Modern Art

Byars, Mel

Laurence King Pub

<p>The first comprehensive survey of the influential Argentinean artist's work to be published in the United States in over ten years, this volume comprises more than 50 canvases and more than 25 works on paper, spanning 25 years of Kuitca's career. Published concurrently with a major traveling exhibition, it features many previously unpublished works and series. Kuitca is most known for his delicate abstractions based on maps and architectural plans, which explore psychological dislocation and the intersection of public and private spaces. Also featured are many of Kuitca's drawings, a previously unexplored aspect of his work, that significantly influenced his approach to painting.</p>

Guillermo Kuitca: Everything

Huyssen, Andreas

Dreishpoon, Douglas

Viso, Olga

Scala Publishers

Gerrit Engle: Manhattan New York

Mejias, Jordan

Photography & Video

Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh

Light construction: transparencia y ligereza en la arquitectura de los 90 (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L.

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