IDEA AS MODEL: 22 ARCHITECTS 1976/1980
Richard Pommer and Peter Eisenman
Richard Pommer [introduction]: IDEA AS MODEL: 22 ARCHITECTS 1976/1980 [Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies Catalogue 3]. New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1981. First [only] edition. A very good perfect-bound softcover book with printed stiff wrappers and minor shelf wear including a crease to the cover's upper right hand corner. Owner's signature on the title/contents page. Otherwise, interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Design by Massimo Vignelli. 8.5 x 9.75 scarce softcover book with 126 pages and 121 illustrations, 10 in color. Cover is a collage made for a limited edition poster for the "Idea as Model" exhibition by Michael Graves, 1976. From an article on an exhibition"Supermodels" on the web site for archmedia: "The origins of this shift within model making lie in the 1976 seminal exhibition Idea as Model, curated by Peter Eisenman, in New York. Eisenman intended to display the model as a conceptual rather than a narrative tool, revealing the artistic existence that models could have, independent of the project they represented."
Contents
- Preface by Peter Eisenman
- The Idea of "Idea as Model" by Richard Pommer
- Post-script to a Post-mortem by Richard Pommer
- The Ruins of a Representation by Christian Hubert
- Idea as Model: 1976
- Partnership Projects
- A Poetics of the Model
Includes work by Kasimir Malevich, Mies van der Rohe, Theo van Doesburg, Frederick Kiesler, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, Venturi and Rauch, Claes Oldenburg, Hans Hollein, Peter Eisenman, Robert A. M. Stern, Michael Graves, Leon Krier, Charles Simonds, Patrick Poirier, Siah Armajani, Alice Aycock, Aldo Rossi, Jasper Johns, Pablo Picasso, El Lissitzky, Piet Mondrian, Raimund Abraham, Diana Agrest, Anthony Eardley, Guillermo Jullain De La Fuente, Alfred Koetter, William Ellis, John Hejduk, Amancio Guedes, Gwathmey and Henderson Architects, Bernhard Leitner, Rodolfo Machado, Jorge Silvetti, Richard Meier, Rafael Moneo, Charles Moore, Richard Oliver, Stanley Tigerman and Stuart Wrede among many others.
The Institute For Architecture And Urban Studies was founded in 1967 as a non-profit independent agency concerned with research, education, and development in architecture and urbanism. It began as a core group of young architects seeking alternatives to traditional forms of education and practice. Peter Eisenman was appointed as the Institutes first executive director followed by Anthony Vidler (1982), Mario Gandelsonas (1983) and Stephen Petersen (1984). In 1985 the Institute ceased to exist.
Spreads from this volume can be viewed here.
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