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Julius Shulman’s images of midcentury Southern Californian architecture captured not only the distinctive structural, functional, and design elements of a building but also the context of its surroundings and inhabitants in a holistic, evocative sense of lifestyle. Over time, Shulman’s talents would take him around the world, steadily crafting one …
Hidden amidst soaring snowy mountains, deep valleys, and desolate deserts are some of the greatest treasures of Buddhist culture and Tibetan heritage. …
In a fleeting 14-year period between the two World Wars, Germany’s Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. …
Renzo Piano rose to international prominence with his co-design of the Pompidou Center in Paris, described by The New York Times as …
Katsushika Hokusai was always a man on the move. He changed domicile more than 90 times during his lifetime and changed his …
Rem Koolhaas founded OMA in 1975 together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. He graduated from the Architectural Association in …
Fascinated by architecture, Tadao Ando abandoned professional boxing and set out on an initiatory tour of the world to learn about his …
The special two-volume edition “100 Contemporary Artists A-Z” by Taschen Publications, is a comprehensive survey of the art scene, profiling 100 of …
From 18/6 to 3/716, 100 kilometers east of Milan and 200 kilometers west of Venice, “The Floating Piers” by Christo and Jeanne-Claude …
During the 1960s, Dennis Hopper carried a camera everywhere: on film sets and locations, at parties, in diners, bars and galleries, driving …
Jean Nouvel is without doubt France’s most important contemporary architect. From 1967 to 1970, he was an assistant of the architects Claude …
Utagawa Hiroshige’s “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo”, actually composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is …
At the turn of the 20th century, architecture took an imaginative leap. As new construction materials and technologies met such far-flung stimuli …
During the latter years of her life, Hadid’s daring visions became a reality, bringing a unique new architectural language to cities and …
From 18/6-3/7/16, “The Floating Piers” at Lake Iseo in Italy, by Christo and Jeanne-Claude allowed 1.2 million people to walk on water. …
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is a maestro of the slight yet seductive, known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard …
By creating photographs that transformed his subjects into abstractions of shapes and patterns, Edward Weston helped bring the medium out of the …
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning “pictures of the floating world,” ukiyo-e …
In “Fullmoon” by Taschen Publications, the conceptual meets the poetic, in more than 260 photographs, Darren Almond catches landscapes around the globe, …
The special two-volume edition ”100 Αrtists Who Epitomize The Contemporary Art Scene” by Taschen Publications features 100 of the artists from TASCHEN’s …
After 70% of the city of Rikuzentakata was destroyed by an earthquake in March 2011, Toyo Ito called on three young architects, …
Meaning literally, “the beauty of tight binding”, Kinbaku-bi, the Japanese art of erotic bondage has long fascinated Nobuyoshi Araki, who has made …
When the Iraqi Army retreated across the Kuwaiti desert in early 1991, after being repelled by U.S.-led coalition forces in Operation Desert …
The work of David Hockney doesn’t need introduction. In the SUMO-sized David Hockney monograph, the artist takes stock of more than 60 …
