Tate Modern is an art gallery in London, housing the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art. It forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is located in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside area of the London Borough of Southwark.
Switzerland lies at the crossroads of several major European cultures. Three of the continent's major languages, German, French and Italian, are national languages of Switzerland, along with Romansh, spoken by a small minority. Therefore, Swiss culture is characterized by diversity, which is reflected in a wide range of traditional customs. The 26 cantons also account for the large cultural diversity.
The year 2003 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
The year 2001 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
The year 2005 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Andreas Gursky is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.
Jacques Herzog is a Swiss architect. He co-founded Herzog & de Meuron architectural firm in 1978 in Basel, Switzerland.
Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century. No single style is dominant. Contemporary architects work in several different styles, from postmodernism, high-tech architecture and new references and interpretations of traditional architecture to highly conceptual forms and designs, resembling sculpture on an enormous scale. Some of these styles and approaches make use of very advanced technology and modern building materials, such as tube structures which allow construction of buildings that are taller, lighter and stronger than those in the 20th century, while others prioritize the use of natural and ecological materials like stone, wood and lime. One technology that is common to all forms of contemporary architecture is the use of new techniques of computer-aided design, which allow buildings to be designed and modeled on computers in three dimensions, and constructed with more precision and speed.
The Goetz Collection is a private collection of contemporary art in Munich, Germany. It opened in 1992. The collection is owned and continually being enlarged by the former gallery dealer Ingvild Goetz, who presents the collection to the public in a series of themed exhibitions in a purpose built museum. Rather than taking an encyclopedic view, the collection focuses on developing particular artists.
The Basel museums encompass a series of museums in the city of Basel, Switzerland, and the neighboring region. They represent a broad spectrum of collections with a marked concentration in the fine arts and house numerous holdings of international significance. With at least three dozen institutions, not including the local history collections in the surrounding communities, the region offers an extraordinarily high density of museums compared to other metropolitan areas of similar size. They draw some one and a half million visitors annually.
Rémy Zaugg was a Swiss painter, primarily known as a conceptual artist. He played an important role as both a critic and observer of contemporary culture, especially with regards to the perception of space and architecture.
Manuel Herz is an architect with his own practice in Basel, Switzerland and Cologne, Germany.
Valerio Olgiati is a Swiss architect. He initially studied architecture at ETH Zurich, a public research university in Zurich, Switzerland.
kawamura-ganjavian, also known as studio kg, is an architecture and design studio based in Madrid, Spain, and Lausanne, Switzerland.
Museum architecture has been of increasing importance over the centuries, especially more recently.
Alejandro Gastón Aravena Mori is a Chilean architect and executive director of the firm Elemental S.A. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016, and was the director and curator of the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Annette Gigon / Mike Guyer Architects is an architectural office based in Zurich, Switzerland. It is led by the Swiss-born architect Annette Gigon and the U.S.-born architect Mike Guyer. Works by the office have been widely published and are admired for their formal logic and legibility, their sensitive handling of materials, and their skillful use of color.
Christian Georg Kerez is a Swiss architect, architectural photographer and professor.
Teresa Gali-Izard is a Spanish landscape architect, agronomist and professor of landscape architecture.
Philipp Schaerer is a Swiss artist known for his work in photography and computer art. His pieces are part of prestigious museum collections, including those at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, among others. Since 2014, Schaerer has served as a guest professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he teaches digital design within the Department of Architecture's "Art and Architecture" program.
