Pedro Gadanho

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, A Japanese Constellation focuses on the work of a small group of architects and designers influenced by and gravitating around the architect Toyo Ito and the architectural firm SANAA. Beginning with an overview of Ito's career and his influence as a mentor to a new generation of Japanese architects, the catalogue presents a richly illustrated portfolio of recent works by three generations of internationally acclaimed designers, including Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, and Junya Ishigami. A Japanese Constellation reveals a network of influence and cross-pollination that has become particularly relevant at the start of the 21st century. Essays by curators, architectural historians, and critics reflect on the transmission of an architectural sensibility, and suggest an alternative model to what has been commonly described as an individuality-based "star-system" in architecture. Offering a panorama of interlinked settled or up-and-coming stars, the publication reveals how shared architectural themes travel across generations of architects, creating a strong identity for a regional practice with global impact.

Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond

A Japanese Constellation

Ricky Burdett

Glenn D. Lowry

Richard Burdett

Teddy Cruz

In 2030, the worlds population will be a staggering eight billion people. Of these, two-thirds will live in cities, and most will be poor. With limited resources, this uneven growth will be one of the greatest challenges faced by societies across the globe. Over the next years, city authorities, urban planners and designers, economists, and many others will have to join forces to avoid major social and economical catastrophes, working together to ensure these expanding megacities will remain habitable. To engage this international debate The Museum of Modern Art presents Uneven Growth, Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities, its third iteration in the Issues in Contemporary Architecture series. Following the same model as the critically acclaimed Rising Currents: Projects for New Yorks Waterfront and Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, Uneven Growth brings together an international group of scholars, practitioners, and experts of architecture and urbanism in a series of workshops, an exhibition, and a publication to focus on how emergent forms of tactical urbanism can address the increasing inequality of urban development around the globe. Featuring proposals for six global metropolises New York, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, Hong Kong and Lagos each developed by a team pairing local practitioners with international researchers, Uneven Growth documents the brainstorming sessions and workshops. Interviews with each team and essays by leading scholars on the issue make the publication a rich resource for students and professionals alike, and a catalyst for worldwide change.

Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities

Uneven Growth

Susana Ventura

The book Utopia/Dystopia is a companion to the curatorial project by the same title that opened at Lisbon?s MAAT? Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology. It is not exactly an exhibition catalogue, but rather a reader containing previously unpublished essays on the ongoing transition from the five-hundred-year old literary notion of utopia, toward the pervasive, everyday imposition of its mirror image: dystopia.

A Paradigm Shift in Art and Architecture

Utopia/dystopia

Wie beeinflussen digitale Fotografie und Photoshop die Darstellung von Architektur? Fiction & Fabrication versammelt faszinierende zeitgenössische Fotoarbeiten aus der ganzen Welt. Von fiktiven Konstrukten bis hin zu realen Bauten, die teils fantastischer als Fiktion wirken, zeichnen die Werke ein eindrucksvolles Porträt aktueller Architektur und der uns umgebenden urbanen Landschaft.00In der Architekturfotografie vollzieht sich gerade ein spannender Wandel: Die scheinbar neutrale, realistische Abbildung weicht einer eigenen, geschaffenen Realität. Neue Technik lässt außergewöhnliche Blickwinkel und Perspektiven zu, die digitale Bearbeitung erlaubt die Manipulation der Realität und längst haben bildende Künstler die Formensprache der Architektur als Sujet für sich entdeckt. Anhand einer Fülle zeitgenössischer Kunstwerke zeigt der Band die visuelle Bandbreite, die Architekturfotografie in unserer post-digitalen Zeit aufweist.00Mit Werken von Doug Aitken, Thomas Demand, Filip Dujardin, Roland Fischer, Andreas Gursky, Edgar Martins, Erwin Olaf, Hans Op de Beeck, Bas Princen, Thomas Ruff, Philipp Schaerer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Wall u. a.00Exhibition: MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lissabon, Portugal (13.09. - 26.08.2019).

Photography of Architecture After the Digital Turn

Fiction and Fabrication

Lucy Bullivant

Space Invaders

Laura Hoptman

Timeless Painting presents the work of 17 contemporary painters whose works reflect a singular approach that is peculiarly of our time: they are a-temporal, a term coined by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, the originators of the cyberpunk aesthetic. A-temporality or timelessness manifests itself in painting as an ahistoric free-for-all, where contemporaneity as an indicator of new form is nowhere to be found, and all eras co-exist. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art that explores the impact of this cultural condition on contemporary painting, this publication features work by an international roster of artists including Joe Bradley, Kerstin Brätsch, Matt Connors, Nicole Eisenman, Mark Grotjahn, Charline von Heyl, , Julie Mehretu, Oscar Murillo, Laura Owens and Josh Smith, among others. An overview essay by curator Laura Hoptman is divided into thematic chapters that explore topics such as re-animation and reenactment, recontextualization, Zombie painting, and the concomitant Frankenstein approach, which describes a process of stitching together pieces of the history of painting to create a work of art that would be dead but for its juxtaposed parts, all working in association with one another to propel the work into life.

Pedro Gadanho

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