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The starting point of this publication - and its eponymous exhibition held in Zurich in Spring 2017 - is the conceptual encounter between English Pop art artist Richard Hamilton (1922-2011) and Swiss historian and critic of architecture Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968), famous for his landmark book Space, Time & Architecture, an influential history of modern architecture published in 1941. In 1949 Richard Hamilton - then a member of the London-based Independent Group - realized the "Reaper" print series as a reaction to Giedion's 1948 book "Mechanization Takes Command" in which he describes the mechanization of everyday life. Reproducing Hamilton's complete "Reaper" series juxtaposed with selected examples of illustrations created by Giedion alongside many related illustrations, this publication brings together seven essays by renowned international scholars, all of whom question the relationships between visual arts, technology, science, and architecture. Among the many topics discussed are Hamilton's early works and exhibition installation practice, postwar British biotechnology and architecture, "Hippie Modernism," and the visual strategy of Giedion's books. Exhibition: Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich, Switzerland (03.05.-25.06.2017).

Pop art --- Interview --- Critique d'art --- Hamilton, Richard, 1922-2011 --- Giedion, Siegfried

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Architectural criticism --- Architectural critics --- Architectural photography. --- Architecture, Modern --- History --- Giedion, Sigfried, --- Architectural photography --- Architecture --- Photography, Architectural --- Photography of architecture --- Photography of buildings --- Photography --- Art critics --- Criticism --- Giedion, S. --- Giedion, Siegfried, --- Gidion, Z. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Giedion, Sigfried

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L'architecte allemand Friedrich Schinkel appréciait d'une architecture qu'elle ait « l'apparence de sa construction ». Creusons cette idée simple : on touche immédiatement l'une des problématiques fondamentales de l'architecture. Art non mimétique, l'architecture n'a effectivement qu'elle-même pour modèle. Comment donc l'architecture s'imite, telle est la question à laquelle, à travers la notion de style notamment, de nombreux théoriciens ont essayé de répondre. L'hypothèse de ce livre prolonge très directement ce questionnement. Elle consiste à dire que l'architecture entretient avec son substrat matériel une relation singulière, qui procède à la fois de la connivence et de la défiance, et qui définit selon les périodes, selon les créateurs, autant de stratégies particulières en matière de projet. Les dix chapitres thématiques qui composent ce livre tentent de circonscrire le sens de cette spécularité énigmatique entre architecture et construction. Le matériau, le chantier, l'ornement, le projet, le détail, l'histoire… autant d'éclairages qui nous permettent de distinguer dans cette superposition à la fois évidente et complexe des modes particuliers d'apparaître, et qui révèlent le caractère spécifique de l'esthétique architecturale. Pour autant, le style ou la beauté en architecture ne constituent pas des données positives. C'est toute l'ambiguïté de cet art : exprimer, voire afficher l'artifice par lequel l'architecture, au sens propre, se dresse, tout en masquant cette dépendance par trop triviale. (quatrième de couverture)

Architecture - Philosophy --- Chantier --- Construction --- Détail de construction --- Ingénieur --- Matériau --- Méthodologie du projet --- Ornement --- Projet d'architecture --- Théorie de l'architecture --- Brunelleschi, Filippo --- Choisy --- Giedion, Siegfried --- Gropius, Walter --- Van De Velde, Henry --- Architecture --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- ARCHITECTURE --- PHILOSOPHIE

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The book concerns the four-day cruise to the Aegean islands made by the "inner circle" of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM) and their friends during the 4th congress in August 1933. Structured around that sequence of Moholy-Nagy's film Architects' Congress dealing with the cruise, the book sheds light on this legendary event in the history of the European architectural and artistic avant-garde.In addition the colourful and ironic six-page letter Moholy-Nagy wrote to his future wife Sibyl describing the "motley crew" and the barely-seaworthy "yacht" that brought them close to the brink of disaster, reveals exclusive insights. This document is being published in its entirety for the first time.Together with a close study of Le Corbusier's sketches and notes in his carnet B5, all of these documents (and even more)—compiled by the authors with utmost care—reveal the preoccupations of the key personae including Sigfried Giedion, Fernand Léger, Amédée Ozenfant, Cornelis van Eesteren, Otto Neurath, and Le Corbusier himself, enabling a reconstruction of their epiphanies, discussions and estrangements at this critical moment in history. They give away a lot about the vital contribution to 20th century culture made by members of the Greek artistic community in Paris, such as Christian Zervos, publisher of Cahiers d'Art; Tériade, editor of the surrealist review Minotaure and publisher of Picasso; Michael Tombros, sculptor and publisher of 20th Century; and the painter Ghika.

Moholy-Nagy, László, --- International Congresses for Modern Architecture --- City planning --- Modern movement (Architecture) --- Mouvement moderne --- Moholy-Nagy, László, --- Ciam --- Avant-garde --- Bauhaus --- Photographie --- Ecrit d'artiste --- Congrès --- Le Corbusier, --- Leger, Fernand --- Ozenfant, Amédée --- Giedion, Siegfried --- Neurath, Otto --- Le Corbusier, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, --- Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946 --- Le Corbusier, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965