BOOK, Page 8

Before buildings are buildings they are drawings – a fact that has been true for millennia. And, while the technology used to …

Beginning in the early 1960s, Peter Saul began to incorporate imagery borrowed from a range of pop-cultural sources into his exuberant, brightly …

Adrián Villar Rojas was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1980. He lives and works nomadically. Villar Rojas is best known for his large-scale, …

Aaron Curry makes sculptures and paintings whose relationship to modernism is productively fraught. Incorporating a wealth of elements from popular culture––science fiction, …

The art of Makoto Azuma uses flowers and plants as its starting point, but juxtaposes their timeless yet transient beauty with an …

Yoshitomo Nara is among the most beloved Japanese artists of his generation. His widely recognizable portraits of menacing figures reflect the artist’s …

“Would they still call me a diva if I were a man?’ asked Zaha Hadid, challenging as she did so more than …

Since opening to the public in 2009, the High Line has rapidly become one of New York City’s most popular and beloved …

Brunet Saunier Architecture was founded in 1981 by the architects Jérôme Brunet and Eric Saunier. The firm is primarily devoted to erecting …

John Ward Pawson is a British architectural designer whose work is known for its minimalist aesthetic. Educated at Eton, Pawson worked in …

Architect Jeanne Gang, FAIA, is the founding principal and partner of Studio Gang. Her inquisitive, forward-looking approach to design, unique in its …

Featuring more than 800 artworks from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the book “Art =” by Phaidon …

Philip Johnson was for many years the most powerful figure in the society and politics of his profession. The impressively illustrated book …

New York in the 1970s was the global epicenter of the fledgling new art form, with artists such as Nam June Paik, …

The concept of sculpture, of what constitutes the sculptural, is more complex and ambiguous than almost any other in art theory, even …

Park Chan-Kyong is the second artist selected for the “MMCA* Artist Studies” series. Since the late 1980s, Park has been a member …

From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on …

Haegue Yang’s body of work is characterized by the extraordinary diversity of its media and methods, yet at the same time, it …

Jean-Michel Othoniel is an artist who creates sculptures that explore themes of fragility, transformation, and ephemerality. Using the repetition of such modular …

In the construction industry, cardboard tubes have been widely used since the 1950s as molds for concrete columns. More recently, however, they …

Over a period of six decades, Gerhard Richter has built up a stylistically heterogeneous and conceptually complex body of painting, photography, sculpture …

The monograph “Anatomy of Minimum” is the latest volume in Phaidon’s documentation of John Pawson’s career, hones in on the essential details …

Postmodernism began as a critique. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, Modernism was no longer seen as radical or even relevant. …

“Appearance Stripped Bare” is the first book to explore two of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art side by side, …