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Adam Kalkin builds homes that mix performance, conceptual art, kinetic construction, and play. Here is the first monograph dedicated to the work of this controversial architectural designer and artist. Filled with Kalkin’s drawings, as well as color photos, it presents more than 30 of his buildings, projects, and installations, including The Bunny Lane House. Includes Kalkin’s witty “100 Comments Regarding Architecture and Hygiene.”
Adam Kalkin's projects using containers to build houses.
Written with beautiful clarity, Art in Consumer Culture: Mis-Design asks the contemporary art world to be honest about the pervasive effects of commodification and the difficulty of staging critique. The book examines the collusion of 'art' and 'design' in contemporary artistic practices in order to find avenues of critique in a commercially driven cultural landscape. Grace McQuilten focuses on the work of Takashi Murakami, Andrea Zittel, Adam Kalkin and Vito Acconci, four contemporary artists who claim to be working in the field of design rather than the traditional art world. McQuilten argues that Zittel, Acconci and Kalkin engage with 'design' only to reactivate the critical practice of art in a more direct engagement with capital - and conceives of and affirms a future for art, outside of the art world, as a parasite in the complex beast of late capitalism. This book is an important and timely provocation to a cynical and apathetic consumer culture, and a call to arms for creative freedom and critical thought.
At Dwell, we're staging a minor revolution. We think that it's possible to live in a house or apartment by a bold modern architect, to own furniture and products that are exceptionally well designed, and still be a regular human being. We think that good design is an integral part of real life. And that real life has been conspicuous by its absence in most design and architecture magazines.
Edited by Laurence Kardish. Text by Laurence Kardish, Kelly Sidley, Michael T. Taussig.
ID surveys the notion of identity in the work of nine contemporary artists who are each radically changing the nature of the way we see. Each of these artists -- Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Vanessa Beecroft, Willie Doherty, Douglas Gordon, Aernout Mik, Tony Oursler, Sam Samore, Georgina Starr, and Gillian Wearing -- is written about, excerpted, and considered in light of their recent projects. The result is an up-to-the-minute primer on the current scene.
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At Dwell, we're staging a minor revolution. We think that it's possible to live in a house or apartment by a bold modern architect, to own furniture and products that are exceptionally well designed, and still be a regular human being. We think that good design is an integral part of real life. And that real life has been conspicuous by its absence in most design and architecture magazines.
Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture is the first book to examine the ways that healthcare architecture can provide better assistance in disaster-stricken communities. Aimed at architects and other professionals working across the disaster relief sector, it provides: An overview of the need for rapid response healthcare facilities; Global case studies which demonstrate real examples; Historical perspectives on redeployables used in past military and civilian contexts; Analysis of the advantages, challenges, and opportunities associated with offsite, premanufactured healthcare facilities and their component systems, for permanent installations or reuse on multiple sites; Plann...