Architecture and Arts

Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1887. Schwitters studied at the Hanover School for Applied Arts and the Art Academy in Dresden. There is scarcely an artist working today, provided they use materials other than paint, who does not refer to Kurt Schwitters in some way. In his bold and wide-ranging experiments, his prodigious collages and ground-breaking environments, he can be seen as the grandfather of modern art.
Kurt Schwitters

Henri Matisse

The paintings and sculpture of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) are among the most recognized and widely diffused of all art works. Matisse trained as a lawyer before switching to painting in 1891.
Henri Matisse

American Master Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is unquestionably America's most celebrated architect. In fact, his career was so long and his accomplishments so varied it can be difficult still to grasp the full range of Wright's achievement. In this new study, Wright scholar Kathryn Smith does just that, exploring the grace and beauty found in all facets of Wright's work
Frank Lloyd Wright

Vermeer and the Delft School

Seventeenth-century Delft has traditionally been viewed as a quaint town whose artists painted scenes of domestic life. This important book revises that image, showing that the small but vibrant Dutch city produced fine examples of all the major arts, including luxury goods and sophisticated paintings for the court at The Hague and for patrician collectors in Delft itself.
Vermeer and the Delft School

Paul Cézanne

Paul Cezanne was for the most part self-taught. Denied official recognition in Paris, he returned again and again to Provence to create his own style, largely independent of other artists' influence.
Paul Cezanne in Provence

Louis I Kahn

Born in Estonia in 1901, Louis Isidore Kahn was to become one of the United States' most important architects of the post-war period, alongside the Modern masters Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier.
Louis I Kahn

Julia Morgan

William Randolph Hearst's dazzling "castle" at San Simeon, California, is famous world round, yet only the aficionado can name Julia Morgan as the architect who built it.
Julia Morgan, Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright

This extraordinary book presents thirty-eight of the most renowned and significant buildings of America's premier architect Frank Lloyd Wright, from his early Prairie work in Oak Park, Illinois, in the 1890s to his daring creations of the 1940s and 1950s.
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp's stature in history of art has grown steadily since the 1930's, largely because several artistic movements have embraced him as their founding father.
Marcel Duchamp

Karel Appel and Cobra

Karel Appel's early involvement with the famed avant-garde artist's group Cobra (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam) led to an interest in folk art, children's art, and art by the mentally disturbed. In 1950, Karel Appel visited the great "International Exhibition on Psychopathological Art" at the Sainte-Anne hospital in Paris.
Years of travel and experimentation with subjects, colors and materials, left him with a close relationship to the American art community and studios all over the world. Karel Appel was a sculptor and a ceramist, too, but he was above all an expressionist, a man of passion led by spontaneity, who has conversely made a lasting mark.
Karel Appel and Cobra

Small houses

Small houses are no longer synonymous with cheap houses and lack of privilege. Instead, they symbolize a range of culturally coded values: compactness, efficiency, discrimination, discreteness, minimalism.
Small Houses

Learning from Art

Academy is an international series of exhibitions and projects initiated by Siemens Arts Program and realized in cooperation with the Kunstverein in Hamburg, the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College in London, the Museum of Modern Art Antwerp, and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
Learning from Art

Prefab Modern

For many, the idea of prefab may bring to mind trailers and other less desirable images of housing.
Prefab Modern

American Dream

American Dream documents the Houses at Sagaponac, a groundbreaking architecture project initiated by real estate developer Harry J. Brown. The project features homes designed by internationally recognized architects on a 10-acre site near the tip of Long Island.
American Dream