How psychological ideas of space have profoundly affected architectural and artistic expression in the twentieth century.Beginning with agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the late …
How the approaches and methods of think tanks-including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics-paved the way for a peculiar genre of midcentury modernism.In Think …
By closely following Goethe's explanations of the color phenomena, the reader may become so divorced from the wavelength theory-Goethe never even mentions it-that he may begin to …
Ten grids that changed the world: the emergence and evolution of the most prominent visual structure in Western culture.Emblematic of modernity, the grid is the underlying form of …
A book that lays out the fundamental concepts of design culture and outlines a design-driven way to approach the world.Humans did not discover fire-they designed it. Design is not …
The future of curatorial practice: how education, research, and institutions can adapt to the expansion of the curatorial field.Today curators are sometimes more famous than the …
Scholars and artists revisit a hugely influential essay by Rosalind Krauss and map the interactions between art and architecture over the last thirty-five years.Expansion, …
An argument that theoretical works can signify through their materiality-their "noise," or such nonsemantic elements as typography-as well as their semantic content.In Material …
Images and texts document the legendary Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo when it set the world standard; a history of the program and examples of work by "Buffalo heads" …
The rise of the exhibition as critical form and artistic medium, from Robert Smithson's antimodernist non-sites in 1968 to today's institutional gravitation toward the …
