Author: Terence Riley
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: construction, light
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2004-04-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0870701290
ISBN-13: 9780870701290

Transparency and luminescence have reemerged in the vocabulary of architecture, and light and "lightness" have become key concepts for a significant number of contemporary architects, as well as artists who create installations. Recent work by these designers recalls the use of transparent materials in early modern structures, but they have introduced new ideas and technical solutions. In doing so, they have redefined the relationship between the observer and the structure by interposing elements that both veil and illuminate. In this architecture of lightness, buildings become intangible, str

Author: Terence Riley
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: site
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0870704990
ISBN-13: 9780870704994

This publication and the exhibition it accompanies feature 36 current architectural projects throughout Spain, a country that in recent years has become known as a center for design innovation and excellence well beyond Bilbao. The projects are seen in relation to 16 other major architectural accomplishments recently completed in Spain. They reflect diversity in the geography of their sites; in scale, from private houses to a new international airport; and in the architects who have conceived them, from relative newcomers to established practitioners, both Spanish and from other countries in E

Authors:Guy Nordenson, Terence Riley,
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: buildings
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-11-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0870700952
ISBN-13: 9780870700958

Since the first skyscraper was erected a century ago, tall buildings have intrigued people everywhere. Today they are so commonplace that it is hard to imagine the modern landscape without them. But skyscrapers are more than relics of the 20th century; they have evolved, along with out technological, spatial and aesthetic needs, as the new urban landscape. Tall Buildings explores how the genre is being redefined for the 21st century, presenting a critical review of the current state of tall buildings, discussing structural inventions, programmatic innovations, and social and urbanistic implica

Authors:Mel Byars, Terence Riley,
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: encyclopedia, design
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 2004-06-02
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 087070012X
ISBN-13: 9780870700125

The Museum of Modern Art Design Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive design reference guide to date. Compiled over the last 15 years by Mel Byars, in consultation with an international team of design experts, The Encyclopedia sets out to provide the factual framework of a discipline whose own historical accounting of itself is still relatively young. (By way of contrast, art history has existed as a scholarly discipline for over two centuries, and has produced a fairly comprehensive record of itself in that time period.) Only once before has a similarly comprehensive overview of the history

Authors:Matilda McQuaid, Terence Riley,
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: modern, art, museum, drawings, architecture, envisioning
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-03
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0870700111
ISBN-13: 9780870700118

From detailed plans made for entirely practical purposes to impressionistic sketches that reveal experimentation and the elaboration of ideas, architects’ drawings are the unseen metaphoric blueprints of the buildings they precede. Envisioning Architecture, the first in a series of three titles showcasing selected works from The Museum of Modern Art’s superlative architecture and design collection, features a wide variety of drawings by great architects of the modern period, from early masters such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to contemporary pr

Authors:Terence Riley, Yoshio Taniguchi,
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: art, modern, museum, new
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2004-11-02
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0870701592
ISBN-13: 9780870701597

For the past few years, The Museum of Modern Art has been in the midst of the largest building project in its history. Designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, the new museum will open in midtown Manhattan in November 2004 - 2005 to coincide with MoMA’s 75th anniversary. The 630,000-square-foot complex is nearly twice the size of the former facility, with dramatically expanded and redesigned spaces for exhibitions, public programming, educational outreach, and scholarly research. In his initial proposal, Taniguchi explained that his goal was "to create an ideal environment for art and people throug

Authors:Terence Young, Robert Riley,
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Keywords: series, ukrainian, studies, harvard, variations, park, landscapes, antecedents, theme
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0884022854
ISBN-13: 9780884022855