Fabrications is an innovative and international architectural exhibition developed in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art; New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, Spain. The exhibition featured sixteen full-scale architectural interventions, four at each venue, produced by sixteen architects or teams exploring broad tectonic issues. Each built work responds to the specific qualities of the four sites as well as to theoretical concerns regarding the relationship between use, meaning, and This book chronicles the various exhibits in detail, which include site-specific works created by such innovative architects and architectural firms as MVRDV of Rotterdam, Abalos & Herreros of Madrid, Eric Owen Moss Craig Hodgetts and Ming Fung, Smith-Miller & Hawkinson, and others.
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. Robbins, Mark (illustrator). Fabrications (ISBN 84-89698-46-5) is the catalog for 4 exhibitions organized simulotaneously by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. It features full-scale installations by 16 architects which suggest alternatives to the usual architecture in museum context. Some of the architects were Samuel Mockbee, Rob Wellington Quigley, Vincent Guallart, Hodgetts + Fung, Eric Owen Moss and Stanley Saitowitz among others. 128 pages, paper with stiff wrap. Color and blacdk and white reproductions. Fine condition. Seller Inventory # BB263