Chroma: Design, Architecture and Art in Color - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3034600925 ISBN 13: 9783034600927

Verlag: Birkhäuser, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Color is central to creative work. This illustrated book embraces the sensuous experience of color, inspiring and seducing the reader with projects by outstanding artists, designers, and architects like Gerhard Richter, Konstantin Grcic, and Sauerbruch Hutton, who have formulated characteristic chromatic worlds.

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The interior architect Barbara Glasner is a consultant and freelance curator for design and architecture based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. From 2001 to 2007, in collaboration with the German Design Council, she supervised the various editions of the highly successful design project “ideal house cologne,” where internationally renowned designers such as Zaha Hadid, Hella Jongerius, Konstantin Grcic, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Naoto Fukasawa and Dieter Rams presented their visions for future living, at the International Furniture Fair Cologne. Her expertise in this field is further demonstrated by the various exhibitions she has curated and her participation in exhibitions, trade fairs, and events worldwide. In 2008, together with Ursula Schöndeling und Petra Schmidt, Glasner edited the book “Patterns 2. Design, Art and Architecture” published by Birkhäuser Verlag.

Petra Schmidt is an independent author and consultant in Frankfurt am Main. She teaches theory of design at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and writes for art and design magazines such as art and Frame. After studying theater, film, and media in Frankfurt, she worked for various design firms and was editor in chief of the design journal form from 1999 to 2007. She is co-editor of the books “Patterns” and “Patterns 2. Design, Art and Architecture,” published by Birkhäuser Verlag in 2005 and 2008 respectively. Her most recent publication is the book “Unfolded. Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry,” which she wrote in collaboration with Nicola Stattmann (Birkhäuser 2009).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Birkhäuser
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3034600925
• ISBN 13: 9783034600927
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 319
• Herausgeber: Glasner Barbara, Schmidt Petra
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: De Gruyter Saur; orders-books@degruyter.com; ; Genthiner Str. 13; Berlin; 10785; Deutschland