The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection - Hardcover

DeYong, Sarah; Michelis, Marco

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870700049 ISBN 13: 9780870700040

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002

Synopsis

What would it be like to inhabit an R. Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion House? To visit Arata Isozaki's project for Hiroshima? Or to grow up in John Hejduk's Wall House? There are only speculative answers to such questions, but who wouldn't ponder them upon seeing the drawings gathered in The Changing of the Avant Garde? With 165 expertly reproduced visionary architectural drawings from The Museum of Modern Art's Howard Gilman Archive, this collection brings together a selection of idealized, fantastic and utopian architectural drawings, primarilly from the 1960s and 70s. This publication--the first to consider the drawings since the archive was established in 1998--is accompanied by essays exploring the significance of the works, and an interview with Pierre Apraxine, former curator of the collection.

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About the Author

Terence Riley is Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Before joining the museum he established an architecture practice with John Keenen, and was Director of the Arthur Ross Architecture Galleries at Columbia University, where he has been an adjunct faculty member since 1987. Riley's curatorial work has focused primarily on major figures and themes in contemporary architecture, and includes Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect, The Un-Private House, Fabrications, and, most recently, Mies in Berlin.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870700049
• ISBN 13: 9780870700040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Antonelli Paola, Riley Terence