Herzog & de Meuron : natural history / edited by Philip Ursprung.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ursprung, Philip.

Herzog & de Meuron.

Centre canadien d'architecture.

Schaulager (Art museum : Münchenstein, Switzerland)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herzog & de Meuron--Exhibitions.

Herzog & de Meuron.

Architecture--Switzerland--20th century--Designs and plans--Exhibitions.

Architecture.

Switzerland.

Genre:

Architectural drawings.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

459 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Herzog and de Meuron

Natural history

Place of Publication:

Montreal : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Baden, Switzerland : Lars Müller, [2002]

Summary:

More than any of their contemporaries, Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are challenging the boundaries between architecture and art. Natural History explores that challenge, examining how the work of this formidable pair has drawn upon the art of both past and present, and brought architecture into dialogue with the art of our time. Echoing an encyclopedia, this publication reflects the natural history museum structure of the exhibition which it accompanies, organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Models and projects by Herzog & de Meuron, as well as by other artists, are structured around six thematic portfolios that suggest an evolutionary history of the architects' work: Appropriation & Reconstruction, Transformation & Alienation, Stacking & Compression, Imprints & Moulds, Interlocking Spaces, and Beauty & Atmosphere. Each section is introduced with a statement from Herzog, and more than 20 artists, scholars, and architects have contributed essays, including Carrie Asman, Georges Didi-Huberman, Kurt W. Forster, Boris Groys, Ulrike Meyer Stump, Peggy Phelan, Thomas Ruff, Rebecca Schneider, Adolf Max Vogt, and Jeff Wall.

Notes:

"[A]ccompanies the exhibition "Herzog & de Meuron: Archaeology of the Mind", organized by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal ... [to] be presented at the CCA from 23 October 2002 to 6 April 2003 ... the Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, from 5 June to 7 September 2003, the Schaulager, Münchenstein/Basel, in spring 2004, and the Netherlands Architecture Instititute, Rotterdam, in fall 2004. The Schaulager is responsible for the European tour of the Exhibition in association with the CCA"--T.p. verso.

"Concept: Philip Ursprung, Lars Müller and Herzog & de Meuron; English editor: Edward Tingley; French editors: Marie Robert, Marie-Josee Arcand; German editors: Martino Stierli, Marguerite Joly; translation: French to English: Neville Saulter; German to English: Fiona Elliott and Cahterine Schelbert"--Colophon.

"Exhibition: Project initiator: Kurt W. Forster; curator: Philip Ursprung; exhibition design, Herzog & de Meuron ...[etc.]"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-451).

ISBN:

3907078853

OCLC:

51022428