A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books

Thomas Demand Exhibition in Florence, Italy by Caruso St. John Architects   Last week's dose featured a modern exhibition in a modern setting. The large-scale, blurred photographs of Hiroshi Sugimoto, and artist-designed exhibition, complement the gallery spaces in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago by German architect Josef Paul Kleihues, a severe, neo-Modern assemblage of boxes. This week's dose looks at another photographer's work exhibited in a classical setting, the Thomas Demand Exhibition at the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy. A collaboration between the artist and London's Caruso St. John Architects , the exhibition is an investigation in contrast and integration, attempting to fit the works of the popular German artist into ...

Sugimoto: Architecture in Chicago, Illinois by Hiroshi Sugimoto, 2003 Hiroshi Sugimoto 's latest phase of his photographic career features blurred images of well-known architectural works, primarily from the Modern movement of the last century, that provoke ideas of memory, time and form. The series, collected in the exhibition "Sugimoto: Architecture" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois, is distinctly different in subject matter from his previous studies, including a series of seascapes and a series of figures from wax museums. While the subject matter for each series is unique, the themes and techniques are constant. The long-exposure images isolate the subject - be it human, natural...

CCAC Dormitory in Oakland, California by Mark Horton / Architecture California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC), the oldest fine arts and design school west of the Mississippi, asked Mark Horton / Architecture to design their first dedicated dormitory building, located on the idyllic Oakland campus. The new building is adjacent to CCAC's last major construction project on the Oakland campus, a glass studio designed by Jim Jennings, and follows closely on the completion of the expansion of their San Francisco campus with the Beta Building by Tanner Leddy Maytum and Stacey . The project was a direct result of the Bay Area's tightening housing market and the impact of this condition on attracting the best possible art students ...