Charlotte Perriand
"Charlotte Perriand read ‘The Book of Tea’ while she lived in Japan and Vietnam during the II War World. Both the book and the years of exile had a huge impact on her ideas and her design skills. Long time after her return to France in 1946 she was commissioned by her friend Hiroshi Teshigaharato design a Teahouse to be part of the Japanese Cultural Festival held in Paris in 1993. Her proposal was to be located on the rooftop of the UNESCO headquarters, along with other Tea houses designed by Tadao Ando, Ettore Sottsass and Yae Lun Choi." Text by Maria Lopez Garcia via Hidden Architecture
Frei Otto
German Pavillion, Montreal 1967
"From the mid 1960's on, Frei Otto recieved an increasing number of commissions for Large-scale projects, which allowed him to prove the actual advantages of tensile structures. Large Spans can be bridged more economically by tensile structures than by any other system. The reason is not only that most materials have a greater strength under tension than in compression, but also that the length of tensile members can be increased considerably without increasing their volume proportionally"
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Anna Rubin
Anna Rubin's
first, second, third kite
is a contemporary sculptor born in Austria. She builds kites based on sketched ideas, from split bamboo, paper and ink. "the technical process and the knowledge of the laws of flight shape the result as well as the design. when the kite takes off and ascends, it changes my scale in the landscape, but its presence in it leaves no trace." You can check more of her work in the +more button.
Graham Stevens
Desert Cloud by Graham Stevens.
Experimental Architecture
"This immense silver cushion (12 x 10 x 2 meters) converts the rays absorbed by the transparent upper membrane into low-frequency radiation thanks to the lower part of the air sleeves, composed of a reflective silver membrane. In other words, the air inside heats up and expands, the structure inflates and floats autonomously. Held by ropes, Desert Cloud floats like a shimmering kite, thus producing a shadow zone in the middle of the desert. It is a free structure that requires no energy resources . Stevens demonstrated how it could even condense and capture water, managing to create ice in a clear night desert sky. The experience was filmed in 1974 in the Kuwaiti desert in the midst of the oil crisis, the artist using the documentary form to explain his approach"
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Jack Lenor Larsen
"For Louis Kahn’s First Unitarian Church in Rochester, New York, Larsen designed a series of gradient wall panels that spanned the color spectrum while using only three yarns: one each of yellow, red, and blue. During the project, Larsen actually taught the renowned architect how to weave."
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Studio Olafur Eliasson
Life, by Studio Olafur Eliasson 2021
Fondation Beyeler
Photo by Mark Niedermann
Uzumaki Cepeda
Dominican Textile artist Uzumaki's Bedroom (2021) - Art by Uzumaki Cepeda
Ernesto Neto
Ernesto Neto - Gaia Mother Tree - Zurich's Central Station 2018
Willo Perron
Willo Perron & Associates set design for Alexander Wang's Rockfeller Center Show.
Carlos Cruz Diez
Spacial Chromointerference - Carlos Cruz Diez - Buffalo, Bayou Park Cistern, Houston - Texas - 2018
Christo and Jeanne Claude
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Museum Würth, Künzelsau, 1994
This image shows the swathed interior of the Museum Würth in Künzelsau, Germany, which the duo artfully draped in cloth for an exhibition in 1994. It recalls their radical installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 1968, where they wrapped the entire space in the same fabric used for the dust cloths that had been covering it only days earlier, while it was being painted—a deliberate challenge the institutional function of museums.
Randy Polumbo
Randy Polumbo, Bee Brook Grotto, 2019
"Grotto installation nested at the top of a repurposed, enameled, cast iron 1940 grain silo and accessed via a 30-foot rise of custom perforated, backlit, curved steel stairs. Grotto: English wheel and hammer-dappled aluminum; fireproof upholstery; hand-blown glass flowers with hand silvered pistils and stamens; LED illuminators and electronics.
A meditative cavern accelerates human sensory moments and destabilizes time. A 24-channel lighting composition unfolds as visitors ascend to a curious gathering place that feels like a shared memory from the future."
The Bread and Puppet theater
The Bread and Puppet theater : Domestic Resurrection Circus.
"The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police, and other problems of the neighborhood. More complex theater pieces followed, in which sculpture, music, dance and language were equal partners. The puppets grew bigger and bigger. Annual presentations for Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and Memorial Day often included children and adults from the community as participants. Many performances were done in the street. During the Vietnam War, Bread and puppet staged block-long processions and pageants involving hundreds of people.
In 1974 Bread and Puppet moved to a farm in Glover in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The 140-year old hay barn was transformed into a museum for veteran puppets. Our Domestic Resurrection Circus, a two day outdoor festival of puppetry shows, was presented annually through 1998."
Charles and Ray Eames
Solar do nothing machine by Charles and Ray Eames - 1957-58
Commissioned by Ketchum, MacCleod and Grove to create a toy as part of an advertising campaign for the Aluminium Company of America (Alcoa). The Eames believed that toys are not as innocent as they appear, the machine was one of the first uses of solar power to produce electricity
James Turrell
James Turrell - Museum in Colome Winery and Estate in Argentina
Unseen Blue (2002)
Niki de Saint Phalle
Niki de Saint Phalle, Maison Dragon, 1973-5
Jesus Rafael Soto
Jesus Rafael Soto, Houston Penetrable, 2004-14, Lacquered aluminium Structure, PVC tubes In the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - 2014