This meticulously researched account relates how, from 1951 until 1986, the curator and director Arthur Drexler gave the influential Architecture and Design department of New York’s Museum of Modern ...
Googie Modern: Architectural Drawings of Armet Davis Newlove | By Michael Murphy, with text by Alan Hess | Angel City Press | $50 Cruise down the Strip, and you can’t miss them. Jitterbug profiles, ...
The term Mid-Century Modern has different meanings in different segments of design during a period 20 years on either side of the year 1950. Industrial designers shaped the current technology into ...
On October 21, New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) shows off its new girth with the public opening of its expanded and renovated galleries, by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler ...
In a remarkable convergence of creative genius and technological advancement, some of the world’s most acclaimed works of architecture were built in a period of just 20 years. This period, from ...
The idea of integration between art and architecture dates back to the very origin of the discipline, however, it took on a new meaning and social purpose during the Avant-Garde movement of the early ...
Modern architecture is the architectural style that dominated the Western world between the 1930s and the 1960s and was characterized by an analytical and functional approach to building design.
Perspective drawing of the Lower Manhattan Expressway / City Corridor project (unbuilt), New York ca. 1967–72. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the Howard Gilman Foundation (1290.2000).
A Passion for MCM – A Tour of Mid-Century Modern Homes will take viewers into three areas of the country that celebrate the Mid-Century Modern lifestyle and keep it alive every day: Starlight Village ...
In the optimistic postwar period of the 1950s, all things seemed possible, including the notion that design could make Americans live better and be better. Into this mix of new art and design in ...
Architects are increasingly incorporating bold patterns inspired by African textiles into building facades. These patterns ...