OfficeUS Agenda / edited by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Amanda Reeser Lawrence, Ana Miljački, Ashley Schafer ; commissioner, Storefront for Art and Architecture ; co-organizer, PRAXIS.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Franch i Gilabert, Eva, editor.

Lawrence, Amanda Reeser, editor.

Miljački, Ana, editor.

Schafer, Ashley, editor.

Storefront Gallery for Art and Architecture, host institution.

Conference Name:

International Architectural Exhibition (14th : 2014 : Venice, Italy), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Architecture.

Architectural firms.

History.

United States.

Architecture--United States--History--21st century--Exhibitions.

Architectural firms--United States--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

269 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Zürich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers, [2014]

Contents:

Expertise. The concept of the architectural corporation / Michael Kubo ; Photographic evidence : the office ; Office management / Peggy Deamer ; Natalie De Blois / Hilary Sample ; The office in the boudoir / Beatriz Comonomina ; Mobility as management : the action office / Branden Hookway

Exchange. OfficeUS : émigrés ; Chicago to Canberra : Walter Burley Griffin & Marion Mahony / Ashley Schafer ; Exporting space-time : American industrial engineering tools with European modernism / Ivan Rupnik ; Albert Kahn's territories / Claire Zimmerman ; OfficeUSSR / Megan Miller ; OfficeUS : world currencies ; The management / Keller Easterling ; Breuer as a global architect / Barry Bergdoll ; Petroleum power : architecture and oil / Michael Kubo ; The Casablanca solar house : energy and technological exchange in the Cold War / Daniel A. Barber ; The master plan as midcentury export / Timothy Hyde ; Exporting vertical ambition / Fred Tang ; OfficeUS : museums as cultural capital

Export. Public architecture after America's withdrawal : on the preservation of US embassies / Jorge Otero-Pailos ; Embassies : under pressure / Margaret Arbanas, Ana Miljački ; Little America : enclaves of US housing in Japan / Andrew Colopy ; "The world on sale" : architectural exports and construction of access / Ijlal Muzaffar ; Cold War technological encounters : the US Informaition Agency's International Exhibition Program / Irina Verona ; Hilton Hotels : the politics of pleasure / Margaret Arbanas, Ana Miljački.

Notes:

"14. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Partecipazioni nazionali, la Biennale di Venezia."

Exhibition catalog. Catalog of an exhibition held at the US Pavillion, 14th International Architecture Exhibition - la Biennale die Venezia.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783037784372

3037784377

OCLC:

883870734