The Changing of the Avant-Garde : Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection

By Terence Riley and Howard Gilman

Book Overview

What would it be like to live in R. Buckminster Fuller's hexagonal Dymaxion House? To visit Arata Isozaki's project for Hiroshima? To grow up in John Hejduk's Wall House? There are only fictional answers to questions such as these, but what imagination wouldn't ponder them upon seeing the drawings assembled in The Changing of the Avant Garde? Featuring 165 expertly reproduced visionary architectural drawings from The Museum of Modern Art's Howard Gilman Archive, this collection brings together a selection of idealized, fantastic, and utopian architectural drawings mainly from the 1960s and 70s. This publication, the first to consider the drawings since the archive was established in 1998, is accompanied by essays exploring the significance of the works, and an interview with Pierre Apraxine, the former curator of the collection.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870700030
• ISBN13: 9780870700033
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.4" x 11.0"