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Arts, Volume 7, Issue 4

December 2018 - 53 articles

Cover Story: In a contemporary context increasingly driven by technological progress, it seems to be long overdue to complement the historiography of Modern Architecture with the fields of technology and construction history. Looking back, it is surprising that while the Industrial Revolution radically changed many sectors by the end of the 19th century, it was slow to take on in architecture. It was not fully embraced by architects until the breakthrough of Modernism. Few architects explored industrial principles in architecture as intensively as Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus. Together with colleagues, he undertook various experiments that manifested in a series of projects, essays, model houses, and Siedlungen, and that adopted two categories of industrial logic: the construction kit and the assembly line. View this paper.
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Articles (53)

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,488 Views
14 Pages

28 November 2018

Gisaku (2005), by Baltasar Pedrosa, is a unique Spanish movie that was produced to sell the Spanish country brand to visitors attending the Spanish Pavilion at Expo Aichi 2005. It is a cartoon feature production that builds a fantastic plot combining...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,171 Views
14 Pages

27 November 2018

In 2017, the City Theater of Munich engaged with a policy of diversity, and decided to include Syrian artists and create the Open Border Ensemble. A German and Syrian refugee and non-refugee cast produced the first performance, “Miunikh–D...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,939 Views
15 Pages

27 November 2018

This article close-reads Modernist architect Ludwig Hilberseimer’s early architectural projects, which employed a language of uniform fenestration, repetition and geometrically reduced typical forms, as embodying Georg Simmel’s blas&eacut...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
12,185 Views
13 Pages

26 November 2018

The Western ‘discovery’ of Japanese cinema in the 1950s prompted scholars to articulate essentialist visions understanding its singularities as a result of its isolation from the rest of the world and its close links to local aesthetic an...

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  • Open Access
4,138 Views
12 Pages

26 November 2018

Studio-based art and design education provides high levels of individual attention but has been criticized for the high demands for space and staff time that it places on institutions. Furthermore, retention and attainment rates in art and design sub...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,277 Views
9 Pages

22 November 2018

The inherent traits of digital media have challenged traditional understandings of artistic authorship and creativity. This division in understanding can clearly be observed in the popular culture context of hip-hop music. Hip-hop initially began wit...

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