Contemporary Art About Architecture : A Strange Utility (Hardcover, New ed)

Contents: Prologue; Introduction, Isabelle Loring Wallace and Nora Wendl; Section I Origins: Approaching architecture: the case of Richard Serra and Michael Asher, Miwon Kwon; Replacing the hut: Dan Graham’s Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube, Jennifer Johung. Section II Photography as Architecture: A becoming image: Candida Hofer’s architecture of absence, Jae Emerling; Thomas Struth: architecture and allegory, Paula Carabell; N-O-W-H-E-R-E, Isabelle Loring Wallace. Section III Re-Building Mies’ Modernism: Media as modern architecture, Beatriz Colomina; More almost nothing: Inigo Manglano- Ovale and the performance of Mies van der Rohe’s Baukunst, Matt Burgermaster; Image as architecture: Thomas Ruff and Mies van de Rohe, Martin Søberg. Section IV Re-Visionaries: The architecture of As If: Josiah McElheny's sculptural proposals, Spyros Papapetros; The pavilions of recollection: architecture and memory in contemporary Eastern European art, Levente Polyak; History re-visioned: Matthew Barney and the neo-Baroque, Rebecca Brantley. Section V Impossible Architectures/Immodest Proposals: Vitruvian figure(s), Nora Wendl; Architecture future perfect: Lara Almarcegui and the ’ghost of content’, Jasmine Benyamin; The manifold dimensions of Janice Kerbel’s architectural diagrams, Jakub Zdebik; Bibliography; Index.