Posts Tagged ‘architecture’
Mies van der Rohe – Visions Of Space 1/7 (Less is More)
Mies van der Rohe – Less is More
part 1 of 7
Visions Of Space, BBC Documentary 2003
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First aired BBC4, 2003; ABC, 2004 In ‘Visions of Space’, Robert Hughes tackles the work and lives of three remarkable 20th-century architects: Albert Speer, Mies van der Rohe, and Antonio Gaudi – whose work did so much to shape the modern world.
Hughes looks at how each one used space in different ways to express our response, respectively, to the power of religion (Gaudi), the power of the State (Speer), and the power of the corporation (Mies van der Rohe).
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 – 1969)
This BBC episode features the German architect, Mies van der Rohe, who moved to America and discovered the face of the modern corporate city.
Following Mies’ footsteps we see how an architect who began his career making kitschy, Hansel and Gretel style houses with pointy roofs, little windows and squat floorplans transformed himself into the master of international modernism – the architect of light and space.
Mies is the father of the contemporary vogue for loft living – what he was building in the 1920s still looks futuristic now. Similarly, his New York masterpiece the Seagrams Building provided the blueprint for the modern office building – without Mies no major city on Earth would look as it does.
But despite his undeniable impact there is something in Mies’ work that Hughes finds shockingly neglectful of real human needs. This master builder could spend days working out how to turn a corner with a skilfully placed beam and totally ignore the legitimate wishes and desires of those who used his buildings.
Nevertheless, Mies definition of real order and how this influences his work was: “The real order is that what St. Augustine said about the the disposition of equal and unequal things – giving to each what deserves, according to their nature.”
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recomended further reading: ‘Mies and the Nazis’ in www.guardian.co.uk
Duration : 0:9:52
SANAA
http://www.vernissage.tv | SANAA: Works 1998 – 2008: Currently, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City presents the first comprehensive exhibition in New York of the works of Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, the Tokyo-based architects who have designed the museum’s new building at 235 Bowery.
Duration : 0:4:29
Tour of MOCA with Maya Lin
Designed by artist and designer Maya Lin, Museum of Chinese in America’s new home is a 14,000 square foot space in a former machine shop, renovated to feature multiple exhibition galleries, interactive display kiosks, a multipurpose auditorium/classroom, a research center, and a flexible space for multidisciplinary public programs.
Production Team: Kim Spurlock, Yasmine Espert , David Chan, Nancy Tong, Doug Rossi.
Duration : 0:6:53
Jeff Wall / Retrospective / Museum of Modern Art MoMA
http://www.vernissage.tv | The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is showing a major retrospective of Canadian artist Jeff Wall. Jeff Wall (born 1946) is widely recognized as one of the most adventurous and inventive artists of his generation. The retrospective at the MoMA comprises 40 works that span Wall?s carer from 1978 to the present. Five recent [...]
Duration : 0:4:54
New Museum New York
A video about David Adjaye’s design for the New Museum of Art in the Bowery, New York. 2003
Duration : 0:1:44
ARCHITECTURE – Frank Lloyd Wright – Guggenheim Museum
Rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Duration : 0:1:5
In Our Time: The Museum of Modern Art
What do the superstars of modern art have in common with the Vincent Black Shadow motorcyle? They share the stage at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, or MoMA. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV.
Duration : 0:56:37
descours 2009 TOUR 12 New Orleans Open House Prototype.mov
Tour 12 DesCours PODCAST for “Open House Prototype 2″ by Francis Bitonti and Brian Osborn, part of DesCours 2009 Installation series sponsored by the New Orleans Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Concept:
openHouse is an illuminated canopy filling the upper portion of a small courtyard. As participants fill the courtyard the space is transformed by a field of kinetic devices. Our objective is to create a fluid public condition which is programmed by habitation and social interaction. Participants control the architecture through the casual use of daily objects — glasses, plates and the like. The character and structure of the space becomes inseparable from the objects, and therefore the users, within it.
Bio:
FRANCIS A. BITONTI is an award winning designer based in New York. Francis holds a Master of Architecture from Pratt Institute and a BFA from Long Island University in Digital Media. Francis has exhibited his work internationally and has most recently shown work at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Francis founded FADarch, an experimental design and research entity, in 2007. His work with computational design and digital technologies has been widely influential and has lectured at a number of conferences and academic institutes. In addition to his professional work Francis has been a visiting instructor at Pratt Institute in the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design department (GAUD) and at the New York City College or Technology.
BRIAN OSBORN holds the Master of Architecture (MArch) from Pratt Institutes School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York, and the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Brian has exhibited his work internationally. Since founding BOTH Landscape and Architecture, Brian has provided innovative landscape solutions for SHoP Architects, SYSTEMarchitects, and the Design Office for Research of Architecture (LABDORA). Brian teaches in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey as well as at the School of Art and Design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Duration : 0:3:26
Otis College Donghia Designer-In-Residence Lecture: Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis
Architecture/Landscape/Interiors presents the 2009 Donghia Designer-in-Residence Lecture by David J. Lewis and Marc Tsurumaki, Principals of Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis (LTL). LTL is an innovative, award-winning architecture partnership founded in 1997 by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David J. Lewis, located in New York City. The firms work has garnered notable awards and accolades including a 2007 National Design Award for Interior Design from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and participation in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2004 Venice Biennale. In 2001 LTL was selected and featured in Architectural Record as one of ten firms representing The New Vanguard in Contemporary Architecture.
LTL actively pursues a diverse range of work, from large-scale academic and cultural buildings to interior architecture to competitions. LTL’s approach is to realize inventive solutions that turn the very constraints of each project into the design trajectory, exploring overlaps between space, program, form, budget and materials.
Founding partners Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David J. Lewis are also widely respected for their contributions to design education. Paul Lewis is an Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Princeton University School of Architecture. Marc Tsurumaki is an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Columbia University. David J. Lewis is an Associate Professor at Parsons The New School for Design, where he directed the Master of Architecture Program from 2002-2007.
Duration : 0:4:26
Cooper-Hewitt: Pioneers of Change: Towards a New Notion of Luxury
Since the economic downfall the notion of luxury has come under attack. Pioneers of Change does not apply the luxury to an ethos of riches as such but to qualities now hard to come by, such as space, fresh air, respect, care, silence, slowness and time. Can we reach a new notion of luxury: a luxury of content and experience over luxury of expensive materials and name and fame of brands and designers?
Moderator:
Matilda McQuaid, Deputy Curatorial Director and Head of Textiles, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Panelists:
Laurene Boym, Boym Partner, Inc.
Christien Meindertsma, Flocks
Marije Vogelzang, Proef
Amale Andraos, Work Architecture Company
Pioneers of Change Open Talks are presented in collaboration with Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and Droog
Duration : 1:10:38