ÁLVARO SIZA VIEIRA

ÁLVARO SIZA VIEIRA. CONTEMPORARY PORTUGUESE ARCHITECT, WITH FERNANDO TÁVORA, HE IS ONE OF THE REFERENCES OF THE PORTO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE. KNOWN FOR HIS "POETIC" MODERNISM DRAWS ON CONTEXT. IN 1992, HE WAS AWARDED WITH THE PRITZKER PRIZE FOR RENOVATION PROJECT THAT HE COORDINATED IN THE CHIADO AREA OF LISBON. MORE RECENTLY HE WAS ANNOUNCED AS RIBA'S 2009 ROYAL GOLD MEDALLIST. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

JESSICA STOCKHOLDER

JESSICA STOCKHOLDER AMERICAN SCULPTOR AND INSTALLATION ARTIST. CONCEPTUAL ARTIST. PIONEER OF INSTALLATION ART THAT MIXES EVERYDAY CONSUMER AND HOUSEHOLD OBJECTS WITH HIGH ART TRADITIONS. HER WORKS ARE OFTEN TITLED AFTER LITERARY OR THEATRICAL WORKS. COMMON HOUSEHOLD MATERIALS GATHERED TOGETHER, DISPLAYED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE GALLERY ENVIRONMENT IN A SEEMINGLY HAPHAZARD MANNER, COLORS AND SHAPES RANDOMLY APPLIED. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY

10.384 JASON RHOADES

10.383 MAN RAY

10.382 VALIE EXPORT

VALIE EXPORT. AUSTRIAN ARTIST. HER ARTISTIC WORK INCLUDES VIDEO INSTALLATIONS, BODY PERFORMANCES, EXPANDED CINEMA, COMPUTER ANIMATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURES AND PUBLICATIONS. IN 1967, SHE CHANGED HER NAME TO VALIE EXPORT (WRITTEN IN UPPERCASE LETTERS). HER EXAMINATION OF THE WAYS IN WHICH THE POWER RELATIONS INHERENT IN MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS INSCRIBE WOMEN’S BODIES AND CONSCIOUSNESS DISTINGUISHES VALIE EXPORT’S PROJECT. SHE SUBJECTED HER BODY TO PAIN AND DANGER IN ACTIONS DESIGNED. VALIE EXPORT'S GROUNDBREAKING VIDEO PIECE, "FACING A FAMILY" (1971) WAS ONE OF THE FIRST INSTANCES OF TELEVISION INTERVENTION AND BROADCASTING VIDEO ART. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.381 SALLY MANN

10.380 RONI HORN

10.379 THOM MAYNE

JACQUES LACAN

JACQUES LACAN FRENCH PSYCHOANALYST AND PSYCHIATRIST WHO MADE PROMINENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO PSYCHOANALYSIS, PHILOSOPHY, AND LITERARY THEORY. HIS INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK IS FREUDIAN, FEATURING THE UNCONSCIOUS, THE CASTRATION COMPLEX, THE EGO, IDENTIFICATION, AND LANGUAGE AS SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTION. HIS IDEAS HAVE HAD A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON CRITICAL THEORY, LITERARY THEORY, TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH PHILOSOPHY, SOCIOLOGY, FEMINIST THEORY. THE ANALYTIC FIELD IS THE ONLY PLACE FROM WHICH IT IS POSSIBLE TO QUESTION THE INSUFFICIENCIES OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.377 CHRISTIAN DE PORTZAMPARC

10.376 ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE

10.375 RAFAEL MONEO

10.374 KIKI SMITH

Exhibiting Artist Lecture: Kiki Smith from Henry Art Gallery on Vimeo.

10.373 BERND AND HILLA BECHER

10.372 PETER EISENMAN

10.371 ALLEN GINSBERG

ALLEN GINSBERG. AMERICAN POET WHO VIGOROUSLY OPPOSED MILITARISM, MATERIALISM AND SEXUAL REPRESSION. IN THE 1950S, GINSBERG WAS A LEADING FIGURE OF THE BEAT GENERATION, AN ANARCHIC GROUP OF YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO COMBINED POETRY, SONG, SEX, WINE AND ILLICIT DRUGS WITH PASSIONATE POLITICAL IDEAS THAT CHAMPIONED PERSONAL FREEDOMS. GINSBERG'S EPIC POEM HOWL, IN WHICH HE CELEBRATES HIS FELLOW "ANGELHEADED HIPSTERS" AND EXCORIATES WHAT HE SAW AS THE DESTRUCTIVE FORCES OF CAPITALISM AND CONFORMITY IN THE UNITED STATES. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY. 

10.369 KEVIN ROCHE

10.367 BILL GATES

BILL GATES. AMERICAN CHAIRMAN OF MICROSOFT, THE SOFTWARE COMPANY HE FOUNDED WITH PAUL ALLEN. DURING HIS CAREER AT MICROSOFT, GATES HELD THE POSITIONS OF CEO AND CHIEF SOFTWARE ARCHITECT. HE HAS ALSO AUTHORED OR CO-AUTHORED SEVERAL BOOKS. WITH PAUL ALLEN HE DEVELOPED AN ALTAIR EMULATOR THAT RAN ON A MINICOMPUTER, AND THEN THE BASIC INTERPRETER. IT RESULTED IN A DEAL WITH MIT TO DISTRIBUTE THE INTERPRETER AS ALTAIR BASIC. AFTER THAT THEY NAMED THEIR PARTNERSHIP "MICRO-SOFT" AND GATES NEVER RETURNED TO HARVARD TO COMPLETE HIS STUDIES. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.366 NORMAN FOSTER

NORMAN FOSTER. BRITISH ARCHITECT WHOSE COMPANY MAINTAINS AN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN PRACTICE. AT YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, HE MET FORMER BUSINESS PARTNER RICHARD ROGERS. 1968 SAW THE BEGINNING OF A LONG PERIOD OF COLLABORATION WITH AMERICAN ARCHITECT RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER, WHICH CONTINUED UNTIL FULLER'S DEATH IN 1983, CATALYSTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE APPROACH TO DESIGN - FOSTER CREATED OPEN-PLAN OFFICE FLOORS LONG BEFORE OPEN-PLAN BECAME THE NORM. IN A TOWN NOT OVER-ENDOWED WITH PUBLIC FACILITIES, THE ROOF GARDENS, 25M SWIMMING POOL AND GYMNASIUM GREATLY ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE COMPANY'S 1200 EMPLOYEES. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.365 STAN BRAKHAGE

10.364 JAMES WATSON

10.363 FRANK GEHRY

FRANK GHERY CANADIAN-AMERICAN PRITZKER PRIZE-WINNING ARCHITECT. HIS BUILDINGS, INCLUDING HIS PRIVATE RESIDENCE, HAVE BECOME TOURIST ATTRACTIONS. MUSEUMS, COMPANIES, AND CITIES SEEK GEHRY'S SERVICES AS A BADGE OF DISTINCTION, BEYOND THE PRODUCT HE DELIVERS. DECONSTRUCTIVISM IS OFTEN REFERRED TO AS POST STRUCTURALIST. IN NATURE FOR ITS ABILITY TO GO BEYOND CURRENT MODALITIES OF STRUCTURAL DEFINITION. GEHRY CAME TO THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC IN 1972 WITH HIS "EASY EDGES" CARDBOARD FURNITURE. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.362 DUANE MICHALS

10.361 RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER

RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER. MEXICAN-CANADIAN ELECTRONIC ARTIST WHO WORKS WITH IDEAS FROM ARCHITECTURE, TECHNOLOGICAL THEATER AND PERFORMANCE. RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER IS BEST KNOWN FOR CREATING THEATRICAL INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS IN PUBLIC SPACES. USING ROBOTICS, REAL-TIME COMPUTER GRAPHICS, FILM PROJECTIONS, POSITIONAL SOUND, INTERNET LINKS, CELL PHONE INTERFACES, VIDEO AND ULTRASONIC SENSORS, LED SCREENS AND OTHER DEVICES, HIS INSTALLATIONS SEEK TO INTERRUPT THE INCREASINGLY HOMOGENIZED URBAN CONDITION BY PROVIDING CRITICAL PLATFORMS FOR PARTICIPATION. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.360 MERCE CUNNINGHAM

10.359 HELEN FRANKENTHALER

I.M. PEI

I.M. PEI CHINESE-BORN AMERICAN ARCHITECT. IN 1935, PEI MOVED TO THE UNITED STATES. SPENT HIS FREE TIME RESEARCHING THE EMERGING MASTERS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE, ESPECIALLY LE CORBUSIER. HE JOINED THE HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN (GSD) AND BECAME FRIENDS WITH THE BAUHAUS ARCHITECTS WALTER GROPIUS AND MARCEL BREUER. IN THE LATE 1980S, PEI WAS THE FOCUS OF A HUGE CONTROVERSY WHEN HE DESIGNED A GLASS-AND-STEEL PYRAMID FOR THE LOUVRE MUSEUM IN PARIS. PEI WAS INSPIRED BY THE INNOVATIVE DESIGNS OF THE NEW INTERNATIONAL STYLE, CHARACTERIZED BY SIMPLIFIED FORM AND THE USE OF CONCRETE, STEEL AND GLASS MATERIALS. PRITZKER PRIZE, 1983. WIKI HISTORY. 

10.357 LOUISE BOURGEOIS

10.356 LOUISE NEVELSON

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&list=PL441BB7F036D37CD1&v=DJ8zcXmVwqo


LOUISE NEVELSON. AMERICAN ARTIST. NEVELSON IS KNOWN FOR HER ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST “CRATES” GROUPED TOGETHER TO FORM A NEW CREATION. SHE USED FOUND OBJECTS OR EVERYDAY DISCARDED THINGS IN ER “ASSEMBLAGES” OR ASSEMBLIES, ONE OF WHICH WAS THREE STORIES HIGH: "WHEN YOU PUT TOGETHER THINGS THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE THROWN OUT, YOU’RE REALLY BRINGING THEM TO LIFE – A SPIRITUAL LIFE THAT SURPASSES THE LIFE FOR WHICH THEY WERE ORIGINALLY CREATED." NEVELSON'S WORK HAS BEEN LINKED TO CUBISM, DADA, SURREALISM, ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, MINIMALISM, FEMINISM, AND INSTALLATION ART. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.355 JAQUE ROBERTSON

10.354 ROBERT VENTURI

10.353 JACKSON POLLOCK

10.352 PABLO PICASSO

10.351 PIPILOTTI RIST

SANTIAGO SIERRA

SANTIAGO SIERRA. SPANISH ARTIST. HE LIVES IN MEXICO CITY. SIERRA'S WORK REFLECTS HIS VIEWS ON CAPITALISM, LABOR, AND EXPLOITATION. FOR INSTANCE, HE PAID A GROUP OF WORKERS TO MOVE A HEAVY ROCK FROM A POINT A TO A POINT B AND VICE VERSA. ON ANOTHER OCCASION HE PAID DRUG-ADDICTED PROSTITUTES FROM BRAZIL IN THEIR DRUG OF CHOICE TO LET THEM HAVE A LINE TATTOOED ACROSS THEIR BACKS. HE ALSO CAUSED CONTROVERSY BY COVERING TEN IRAQI IMMIGRANTS IN INSULATING POLYURETHANE FOAM AND WAITING FOR IT TO HARDEN. ANOTHER OF HIS WELL KNOWN PROJECTS IS A ROOM OF MUD IN HANOVER, GERMANY, COMMEMORATING THE JOB-CREATION MEASURE ORIGIN OF THE MASCHSEE. IN 2006, HE PROVOKED CONTROVERSY WITH HIS INSTALLATION "245 CUBIC METRES", A GAS CHAMBER CREATED INSIDE A FORMER SYNAGOGUE IN PULHEIM, GERMANY. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.349 ANDRÉ MASSON

10.347 MANUEL CASTELLS

10.346 JÜRGEN HABERMAS

10.345 RACHEL WHITEREAD

10.344 JACQUES HERZOG

10.343 JEFF KOONS

10.342 ANDY WARHOL

10.341 MARCEL DUCHAMP

10.340 RYUE NISHIZAWA

10.339 UGO RONDINONE

10.338 KAZUJO SEJIMA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL4EA4EA0F9F3FD494&v=p189Fxs4lmw&feature=player_embedded


KAZUJO SEJIMA. JAPANESE ARCHITECT. AFTER STUDYING AT JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY AND WORKING IN THE OFFICE OF TOYO ITO, IN 1987 SHE FOUNDED KAZUYO SEJIMA AND ASSOCIATES. IN 1995 SHE FOUNDED THE TOKYO-BASED FIRM SANAA (SEJIMA AND NISHIZAWA AND ASSOCIATES) TOGETHER WITH HER FORMER EMPLOYEE RYUE NISHIZAWA. SEJIMA HAS BEEN APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE ARCHITECTURE SECTOR FOR THE VENICE BIENNALE, FOR WHICH SHE WILL CURATE THE 12TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION, TO BE HELD IN 2010. SHE IS THE FIRST WOMAN EVER SELECTED FOR THIS POSITION. PRITZKER PRIZE 2010, SECOND WOMEN TO WIN THE PRITZKER SINCE 1979. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.337 PAUL MCCARTHY

http://www.ubu.com/film/mccarthy_painter.html


PAUL MCCARTHY. CONTEMPORARY ARTIST WHO LIVES AND WORKS IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. MCCARTHY STUDIED AT THE SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE. IN 1972 HE STUDIED FILM, VIDEO AND ART AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. FROM 1982 TO 2002 HE HAS TAUGHT PERFORMANCE, VIDEO, INSTALLATION, AND PERFORMANCE ART HISTORY. MCCARTHY CURRENTLY WORKS MAINLY IN VIDEO AND SCULPTURE. TRAINED AS A PAINTER, MCCARTHY'S MAIN INTEREST LIES IN EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES AND THE MESS CREATED BY THEM. MUCH OF HIS WORK IN THE LATE 1960S, SUCH AS MOUNTAIN BOWLING (1969) AND HOLD AN APPLE IN YOUR ARMPIT (1970) ARE SIMILAR TO THE WORK OF HAPPENINGS FOUNDER ALLAN KAPROW, WITH WHOM MCCARTHY HAD A PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

JOEP VAN LIESHOUT

ATELIER VAN LIESHOUT (AVL), FOUNDED BY ARTIST JOEP VAN LIESHOUT (1963) IN 1995, IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY ART PRACTICE ENCOMPASSING INSTALLATION, DESIGN, FURNITURE AND ARCHITECTURE. THE NAME ATELIER VAN LIESHOUT EMPHASISES THE FACT THAT THE WORKS OF ART DO NOT STEM SOLELY FROM THE CREATIVE BRAIN OF JOEP VAN LIESHOUT, BUT ARE PRODUCED BY A CREATIVE TEAM OF ARTISTS, DESIGNERS AND ARCHITECTS. THE WORKS OF ART ARE PRACTICAL, UNCOMPLICATED AND SUBSTANTIAL. THE WORK VARIES FROM SCULPTURES AND FURNITURE, BATHROOMS AND MOBILE HOME UNITS TO LARGE INSTALLATIONS AND COMPLETE ARCHITECTURAL REFURBISHMENTS. ONE OF THE MANY APPLICATIONS AND TECHNIQUES USED BY AVL ARE THE LARGE POLYESTER CONSTRUCTIONS IN STRIKING, BRIGHT COLOURS. THESE POLYESTER CONSTRUCTIONS, OF WHICH THE LARGE MOBILE HOME UNITS ARE THE BEST KNOWN, FORM THE AVL TRADEMARK. RECURRING THEMES IN THE WORK OF AVL ARE AUTARKY, POWER, POLITICS AND SEX.

10.335 NICOLAS BOURRIAUD

10.334 ROBERT SMITHSON

10.333 RICHARD SERRA

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/2777


RICHARD SERRA. AMERICAN MINIMALIST SCULPTOR KNOWN FOR HIS CONSTRUCTIONS FROM LARGE ROLLS AND SHEETS OF METAL (COR-TEN-STEEL). MANY OF THESE PIECES ARE SELF-SUPPORTING AND EMPHASIZE THE WEIGHT AND NATURE OF THE MATERIALS. SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS, IN 1981, SERRA INSTALLED TILTED ARC, A GENTLY CURVED, 3.5 METER HIGH ARC OF RUSTING MILD STEEL IN THE FEDERAL PLAZA IN NEW YORK CITY. TO SEE IS TO THINK, TO CHANGE MEANINGS THROUGH PERCEPTION. NOTIONS OF PROCESS TIME AND SPACE ARE BEEING EXPLORED WITH FORMS NEVER BUILT BEFORE. 2007 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTED A RETROSPECTIVE OF SERRA'S WORK IN NEW YORK. INTERSECTION II (1992-1993) AND TORQUED ELLIPSE IV (1998) AMONG THE WORKS. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.332 LE CORBUSIER

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LE CORBUSIER. SWISS-FRENCH ARCHITECT, DESIGNER, URBANIST, WRITER AND ALSO PAINTER, ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF WHAT NOW IS CALLED MODERN ARCHITECTURE OR THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE. VERS UNE ARCHITECTURE (1923) (TOWARDS AN ARCHITECTURE). IN THE 1930S, LE CORBUSIER EXPANDED AND REFORMULATED HIS IDEAS ON URBANISM, EVENTUALLY PUBLISHING THEM IN LA VILLE RADIEUSE (THE RADIANT CITY) OF 1935. LE CORBUSIER CONTRIBUTED TO A NEW JOURNAL CALLED L'ESPRIT NOUVEAU THAT ADVOCATED THE USE OF MODERN INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES TO TRANSFORM SOCIETY INTO A MORE EFFICIENT ENVIRONMENT WITH A HIGHER STANDARD OF LIVING ON ALL SOCIOECONOMIC LEVELS. FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL D'ARCHITECTURE MODERNE (CIAM). WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.331 PHILIP JOHNSON

10.330 BEATRIZ COLOMINA

'Backseat Interview' with Beatriz Colomina from TAMU College of Architecture on Vimeo.

10.329 ANISH KAPOOR

10.328 THOMAS HIRSCHHORN

THOMAS HIRSCHHORN. PART OF THE GROUP OF DESIGNERS CALLED GRAPUS. THESE ARTISTS WERE CONCERNED WITH POLITICS AND CULTURE, DISPLAYING IMPROMPTU CREATIONS AND POSTERS ON THE STREET MOSTLY USING THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISEMENT. HE LEFT GRAPUS TO CREATE THE HYPERSATURATED INSTALLATIONS HE IS KNOWN FOR TODAY, USING COMMON MATERIALS SUCH AS CARDBOARD, FOIL, DUCT TAPE, AND PLASTIC WRAP. THESE INSTALLATIONS ARE OFTEN SITE SPECIFIC AND OUTSIDE THE GALLERY, AND/OR INTERACTIVE. UNLIKE MUCH TOTAL INSTALLATION WORK, THE VIEWER IS AN OBSERVER NOT AN ACTOR IN THE SPACES HE CREATES BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE CONTINUES TO OFFER MESSAGES IN HIS WORK AS HE DID WITH GRAPUS. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.327 DONNA HARAWAY

DONNA HARAWAY. PROFESSOR AND CHAIR OF THE HISTORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS. SHE IS THE AUTHOR OF, PRIMATE VISIONS: GENDER, RACE, AND NATURE IN THE WORLD OF MODERN SCIENCE (1989), SIMIANS, CYBORGS, AND WOMEN: THE REINVENTION OF NATURE (1991), MODEST WITNESS@SECOND MILLENIUM. FEMALEMAN MEETS ONCOMOUSE: FEMINISM AND TECHNOSCIENCE (1997), THE COMPANION SPECIES MANIFESTO: DOGS, PEOPLE, AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERNESS (2003), AND WHEN SPECIES MEET (2008). SHE LIVED IN PARIS FOR A YEAR, STUDYING PHILOSOPHIES OF EVOLUTION. PHD AT THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY. HARAWAY IS A LEADING THINKER ABOUT PEOPLE'S LOVE AND HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH MACHINES. HER IDEAS HAVE SPARKED AN EXPLOSION OF DEBATE IN AREAS AS DIVERSE AS PRIMATOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.326 JUDITH BUTLER

10.325 FUMIHIKO MAKI

10.324 JUDY CHICAGO

10.323 BILL VIOLA

10.322 HANNAH ARENDT

GERMAN POLITICAL THEORIST. ARENDT'S WORK CENTERS ON THE FACT THAT "MEN, NOT MAN, LIVE ON THE EARTH AND INHABIT THE WORLD" ARENDT'S WORK DEALS WITH THE NATURE OF POWER, AND THE SUBJECTS OF POLITICS, AUTHORITY, AND TOTALITARIANISM. MUCH OF HER WORK FOCUSES ON AFFIRMING A CONCEPTION OF FREEDOM WHICH IS SYNONYMOUS WITH COLLECTIVE POLITICAL ACTION AMONG EQUALS. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARBURG, SHE STUDIED PHILOSOPHY WITH MARTIN HEIDEGGER IN 1950, SHE BECAME A NATURALIZED CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES. IN 1959, SHE BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN APPOINTED TO A FULL PROFESSORSHIP AT PRINCETON.

10.321 MARINA ABRAMOVIC

MARINA ABRAMOVIC. SERBIAN PERFORMANCE ARTIST. ACTIVE FOR OVER THREE DECADES. ABRAMOVIĆ'S WORK EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE, THE LIMITS OF THE BODY, AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE MIND. ABRAMOVIĆ BEGAN TO CONSIDER THE STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE PERFORMER. “ONCE YOU ENTER INTO THE PERFORMANCE STATE YOU CAN PUSH YOUR BODY TO DO THINGS YOU ABSOLUTELY COULD NEVER NORMALLY DO.” THE STATE OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS COULD BE INCORPORATED INTO A PERFORMANCE, TO TEST THE LIMITS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE. ABRAMOVIĆ/ULAY EXPLORED EXTREME STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO ARCHITECTURAL SPACE. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.320 PERRY ANDERSON

10.319 JACQUES DERRIDA

10.318 JENNY HOLZER

AMERICAN CONCEPTUAL ARTIST. ATTENDED THE INDEPENDENT STUDY PROGRAM AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART. HOLZER WAS ORIGINALLY AN ABSTRACT ARTIST, FOCUSING ON PAINTING AND PRINTMAKING; AFTER MOVING TO NEW YORK CITY IN 1977, SHE BEGAN WORKING WITH TEXT AS ART. SHE WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE ARTIST'S GROUP COLAB. THE MAIN FOCUS OF HER WORK IS THE USE OF WORDS AND IDEAS IN PUBLIC SPACE. ORIGINALLY UTILIZING STREET POSTERS, LED SIGNS BECAME HER MOST VISIBLE MEDIUM, THOUGH HER DIVERSE PRACTICE INCORPORATES A WIDE ARRAY OF MEDIA INCLUDING BRONZE PLAQUES, PAINTED SIGNS, STONE BENCHES AND FOOTSTOOLS, STICKERS, T-SHIRTS, CONDOMS, PAINTINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, SOUND, VIDEO, LIGHT PROJECTION AND THE INTERNET. WIKY. VIEW HISTORY

10.317 ROBERT MOTHERWELL

10.316 ANDREAS FEININGER

ANDREAS FEININGER. GERMAN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER, AND WRITER ON PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE, NOTED FOR HIS DYNAMIC BLACK-AND-WHITE SCENES OF MANHATTAN AND STUDIES OF THE STRUCTURE OF NATURAL OBJECTS. FEININGER GREW UP AND WAS EDUCATED AS AN ARCHITECT IN GERMANY, WHERE HIS FATHER PAINTED AND TAUGHT AT STAATLICHES BAUHAUS. IN 1936, HE GAVE UP ARCHITECTURE ITSELF, AND FOCUSED ON PHOTOGRAPHY. IN 1939, FEININGER IMMIGRATED TO THE U.S. WHERE HE ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS A FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER AND IN 1943 JOINED THE STAFF OF LIFE MAGAZINE. FEININGER WROTE COMPREHENSIVE MANUALS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY, OF WHICH THE BEST KNOWN IS THE COMPLETE PHOTOGRAPHER. IN 1966, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHERS (ASMP) AWARDED FEININGER THE ROBERT LEAVITT AWARD.WIKI. VIEW HISTORY. 

10.315 DANAH ZOHAR

10.314 JOSEPH BEUYS

10.313 DENISE SCOTT BROWN

10.312 CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS

10.311 VANESSA BEECROFT

BEECROFT'S WORK IS A FUSION OF CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND AESTHETIC CONCERNS, FOCUSING ON LARGE-SCALE PERFORMANCE ART, USUALLY INVOLVING LIVE FEMALE MODELS (OFTEN NUDE). AT HER PERFORMANCES, VIDEO RECORDINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MADE, TO BE EXHIBITED AS DOCUMENTATION OF THE PERFORMANCES, BUT ALSO AS SEPARATE WORKS OF ART. THE WORK AND HER CONCEPTUAL APPROACH IS NEITHER PERFORMANCE NOR DOCUMENTARY, BUT SOMETHING IN BETWEEN, AND CLOSER TO RENAISSANCE PAINTING. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.310 REM KOOLHAAS

Rem Koolhaas interview De Rotterdam from Paul Dijkhuijsen on Vimeo.

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10.309 PIERRE BOURDIEU

CINDY SHERMAN

CINDI SHERMAN. AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER, BEST KNOWN FOR HER CONCEPTUAL PORTRAITS. SHE BEGAN PAINTING. "THERE WAS NOTHING MORE TO SAY [THROUGH PAINTING]," SHE LATER RECALLED. "I WAS METICULOUSLY COPYING OTHER ART AND THEN I REALIZED I COULD JUST USE A CAMERA AND PUT MY TIME INTO AN IDEA INSTEAD." SHERMAN WORKS IN SERIES, TYPICALLY PHOTOGRAPHING HERSELF IN A RANGE OF COSTUMES. FOR EXAMPLE, IN HER LANDMARK 69 PHOTOGRAPH SERIES, THE COMPLETE UNTITLED FILM STILLS, (1977–1980) SHERMAN APPEARED AS B-MOVIE, FOREIGN FILM AND FILM NOIR STYLE ACTRESSES. A SERIES, DATED 2003, FEATURES HER AS CLOWNS. SHERMAN HAS APPROPRIATED A NUMBER OF OTHER VISUAL FORMS— THE CENTERFOLD, FASHION PHOTOGRAPH, HISTORICAL PORTRAIT, AND SOFT-CORE SEX IMAGE. THESE AND OTHER SERIES, LIKE THE 1980S "FAIRY TALES AND DISASTERS" SEQUENCE. WIKI VIEW HISTORY.

JUHANI PALLASMAA

Juhani Pallasmaa on HDL Global 1968 from Sitra- Finnish Innovation Fund on Vimeo.


JUHANI PALLASMAA HAS WRITTEN NUMEROUS ARTICLES ON CULTURAL PHILOSOPHY, ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE ARTS. MANY OF HIS ARTICLES ARE FIRST FEATURED IN ARK (THE FINNISH ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW). "THE EYES OF THE SKIN - ARCHITECTURE AND THE SENSES", A BOOK THAT HAS BECOME A CLASSIC OF ARCHITECTURAL THEORY A SELECTION OF ESSAYS WRITTEN BY PALLASMAA, FROM THE EARLY YEARS TO MORE RECENT ONES, HAS BEEN TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH AND COLLATED TOGETHER IN THE BOOK "ENCOUNTERS - ARCHITECTURAL ESSAYS" (HELSINKI, 2005), EDITED BY PETER MACKEITH. WIKI VIEW HISTORI

10.306 CHANTALL MOUFFE

CHANTAL MOUFFE IS A BELGIAN POLITICAL THEORIST. SHE IS BEST KNOWN AS CO-AUTHOR OF HEGEMONY AND SOCIALIST STRATEGY WITH ERNESTO LACLAU. THEIR THOUGHTS ARE USUALLY DESCRIBED AS POST-MARXISM THEY REJECTED MARXIST ECONOMIC DETERMINISM AND THE NOTION OF CLASS STRUGGLE BEING THE SINGLE CRUCIAL ANTAGONISM IN SOCIETY. INSTEAD THEY URGED FOR RADICAL DEMOCRACY OF AGONISTIC PLURALISM WHERE ALL ANTAGONISMS COULD BE EXPRESSED. IN THEIR OPINION, ‘...THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF SOCIETY WITHOUT ANTAGONISM’; INDEED, WITHOUT THE FORCES THAT ARTICULATE A VISION OF SOCIETY, IT COULD NOT EXIST.

10.305 ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

LINA BO BARDI

LINA BO BARDI SPENT THE YEARS FOLLOWING THE WAR DOCUMENTING DESTRUCTION ACROSS ITALY, PARTICIPATING IN THE NATIONAL CONGRESS FOR RECONSTRUCTION. SHE ALSO FOUNDED A WEEKLY MAGAZINE, A CULTURA DELLA VITA, WITH BRUNO ZEVI. IN 1946 BO BARDI MOVED WITH HER HUSBAND TO BRAZIL, A COUNTRY WHICH HAD A PROFOUND EFFECT ON HER CREATIVE THINKING. SHE COMPLETED HER 
FIRST BUILT WORK, HER OWN "GLASS HOUSE". HERE, THE ITALIAN RATIONALISM SHAPED THIS FIRST WORK, BUT IMMERSED IN BRAZILIAN CULTURE HER CREATIVE THINKING BEGAN TO BECOME MORE EXPRESSIVE. WIKY. VIEW HISTORY. 

BRUNO LATOUR

BRUNO LATOUR (SOCIOLOGIST OF SCIENCE, ANTHROPOLOGIST). HE IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS BOOKS WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MODERN (1991; ENGLISH TRANSLATION, 1993), LABORATORY LIFE (WITH STEVE WOOLGAR, 1979) AND SCIENCE IN ACTION (1987). ALONG WITH MICHEL CALLON AND JOHN LAW, LATOUR IS ONE OF THE PRIMARY DEVELOPERS OF ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY (ANT), A CONSTRUCTIONIST APPROACH INFLUENCED BY THE ETHNOMETHODOLOGY OF HAROLD GARFINKEL, THE GENERATIVE SEMIOTICS OF GREIMAS, AND (MORE RECENTLY) THE SOCIOLOGY OF DURKHEIM'S RIVAL GABRIEL TARDE. WIKY. VIEW HISTORY.

REBECCA HORN

REBECCA HORN IS A GERMAN INSTALLATION ARTIST MOST FAMOUS FOR HER BODY MODIFICATIONS SUCH AS EINHORN (UNICORN), A BODY-SUIT WITH A VERY LARGE HORN PROJECTING VERTICALLY FROM THE HEADPIECE, AND PENCIL MASK, A MESH HARNESS FOR THE HEAD WITH MANY PENCILS PROJECTING OUT. SHE IS MAINLY A PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION ARTIST, BUT SHE ALSO WRITES POETRY. SOMETIMES HER POETRY IS INFLUENCED BY HER WORK, AND ON MANY OCCASIONS HER POETRY HAS INSPIRED HER WORK. SHE WAS TAUGHT TO DRAW BY HER ROMANIAN GOVERNESS AND BECAME OBSESSED WITH DRAWING AS EXPRESSION BECAUSE IT WAS NOT AS CONFINING OR LABELING AS ORAL LANGUAGE. I DID NOT HAVE TO DRAW IN GERMAN OR FRENCH OR ENGLISH. I COULD JUST DRAW." WIKY. VIEW HISTORY.

GLENN MURCUTT

GLENN MURCUTT 2002 PRITZKER PRIZE, GREW UP IN THE MOROBE PROVINCE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA, WHERE HE DEVELOPED AN APPRECIATION FOR SIMPLE, VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE. MURCUTT'S MOTTO, 'TOUCH THE EARTH LIGHTLY', CONVINCES HIM TO DESIGN HIS WORKS TO FIT INTO THE AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE FEATURES. HIS WORKS ARE HIGHLY ECONOMICAL AND MULTI-FUNCTIONAL. MURCUTT ALSO PAYS ATTENTION TO THE ENVIRONMENT SUCH AS WIND DIRECTION, WATER MOVEMENT, TEMPERATURE AND LIGHT SURROUNDING HIS SITES BEFORE HE DESIGNS THE BUILDING ITSELF. MATERIALS SUCH AS GLASS, STONE, TIMBER AND STEEL ARE OFTEN INCLUDED IN HIS WORKS. VIEW WIKI HOSTORY.