Treacherous Transparencies

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Treacherous Transparencies

Thoughts and Observations Triggered by a Visit to Farnsworth House

Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron

Treacherous Transparencies analyzes transparency as expressed in architecture and art in an attempt to understand the intentions and objectives that underlie its use by pertinent architects and artists. The publication looks at a few important works by selected artists and architects who work with transparency as an artistic strategy, which they implement primarily by using glass and mirrors but other media as well. The architects and artists listed together in this context form an unlikely alliance: Bruno Taut, Ivan Leonidov, Marcel Duchamp, Mies van der Rohe, Dan Graham, and Gerhard Richter. But they do have something in common: their work marks salient way stations in the story of modernism up to the present day. Published in the context of the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP). Launch of the publication series by the inaugural MCHAP award winners Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron for their project 1111 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach.

Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2001 and the MCHAP 2009-2013 Award in 2014.

Co-published with Size Format ISBN Printed · EN ISBN Printed · DE Price IITAC 5.5 x 7.8 in. / 14 x 20 cm Hardcover · 96 pages 978-1-94515-011-1 978-1-94515-012-8 $24.95 / €22 / £18

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