This work takes a fresh look at the relationship between architecture and landscape. In today's cities, the architecture and the natural are no longer separate entities.

New Landscapes, New Territories (nuevos paisajes)

Reference

Xavier Costa

Eduard Bru

Foreign Language Study & Reference

EDITORIAL ACTAR

Fabrications

Edited by Terence Riley. Text by Aaron Betsky, Mark Robbins.

Fabricaciones

Arts & Photography

Terence Riley

Mark Robbins

Aaron Betsky

Architecture

Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

Hofmann was one of the most influential European artists in the birth of American abstract expressionism. This catalogue contains the pieces that Hofmann conceived to decorate the church in Chimbote, Perú, commissioned to the Catalan architect Josep-Lluís Sert but never built.This publication extensively documents the proposal in its historical context, aiming to offer a wider interpretation on the twentieth-century project of a renewed collaboration between art and architecture.

Hans Hofmann: The Chimbote Project

Tina Dickey

Eric Mumford

Martí Peran

Maurici Pla

History & Criticism

From the furniture of Donald Judd to the cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders, from the music of John Cage to the buildings of Mies van der Rohe, Luis Barragan, and Arne Jacobsen, and on to the theater of Samuel Beckett and the fiction of Ernest Hemingway, Less is More: Minimalism in Architecture and Other Arts is dedicated to the phenomenon of Minimalism. Perhaps the most compelling multidisciplinary aesthetic of the past century, minimalism continues to resonate and still points towards the future for art, design, and culture. Quite a lot of the work that can be characterized as "minimalist" draws its effect from the dialectical interplay of two apparently contradictory forms--Minimalism and Maximalism--and the artists presented here testify to this tradition, drawing some unusual conclusions--but always making amazing art. Tautly and attractively designed, Less is More is an essential guide to all things minimalist.

Less Is More: Minimalism in Architecture and Other Arts

Stoller, Ezra

De Michelis, Marco

De Solà-morales, Ignasi

HEMINGWAY,ERNEST

Savi, Vittorio

Montemaggi, Luca

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Actarbirkhauser

Homa Farjadi's recent work reveals a consistent, reflective grasp on the role of design in shaping public space within our changing cities. In these projects, there is a sense of public space where citizens or users of the sites construct their own spaces while experiencing them. These architectures and landscapes incorporate spatial vectors, tensions, lines of flow, all interwoven within the historic and current urban context, resulting in design that appears as a still snapshot within a complex system of movement.

Sense Formations: Farjadi Architects

Farjadi Architects

Neil Leach

Actar

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