Perfect Acts Of Architecture - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870700391 ISBN 13: 9780870700392

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

Synopsis

Perfect Acts of Architecture collects six sets of highly inventive drawings by contemporary avant-garde architects Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Daniel Libeskind and Thom Mayne. Created between 1972 and 1988 (when many architects turned to teaching as economic conditions had drastically curtailed building commissions), these works reflect the period's intellectual debates and propose graphic experimentation as a mode of research. Each suite of drawings offers great insight into the creative processes of six young designers, who have since gone on to establish major international reputations. Setting this "paper architecture" in a broader historical backdrop, Jeffrey Kipnis and Terence Riley provide introductory texts and concise commentaries on each of the projects.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Jan. 27-Apr. 20, 2001
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Sept. 15, 2001-Jan. 6, 2002
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Mar. 2-May 24, 2002, The AXA Gallery, New York, Aug. 15-Oct. 19, 2002

About the Author:

Jeffrey Kipnis is Curator of Architecture and Design at the Wexner Center for the Arts and Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Ohio State University, Columbus.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0870700391
• ISBN 13: 9780870700392
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 180
• Editor: Riley Terence