Mark Pimlott
Media representation: I became my own Döppelganger... (2010)
→ Creative Business / EntrepreneurshipMark Pimlott - 31 Oct 10 Media representation can be a bizarre experience, especially for those experiencing it for the first time in some volume. Mark Pimlott, an artist/designer and historian who exhibited in the 2010 Venice Biennial, and worked with celebrity designer Philippe Starck and celebrity hotelier Ian...
The Grand Louvre & I.M. Pei (2007)
→ café libraryMark Pimlott - 02 Jun 07 Excerpt from Mark Pimlott’s book, Without and within: Essays on territory and the interior (Episode Publishers: Rotterdam). Grand Louvre, Paris (1989; 1994). Architects: Pei Cobb Freed architects and Planners. I. M. Pei, partner-in-charge and designer. © Mark Pimlott. A subtle...
Mies van der Rohe (2007)
→ café libraryMark Pimlott - 02 Jun 07 Excerpt from Mark Pimlott’s book, Without and within: Essays on territory and the interior (Episode Publishers: Rotterdam). Mark Pimlott. Without and within book cover, (2007). Episode Publishers: Rotterdam. Through a long process that began in 1937 while Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was...
Le Corbusier (2007)
→ café libraryMark Pimlott - 01 Jun 07 Excerpt from Mark Pimlott’s book, Without and within: Essays on territory and the interior (Episode Publishers: Rotterdam). Mark Pimlott. Without and within book cover, (2007). Episode Publishers: Rotterdam. [...] To the Modernist architect of the 1920s, and to Le Corbusier in particular,...
Place Ville Marie, Montréal (2007)
→ café libraryMark Pimlott - 01 Jun 07 Excerpt from Mark Pimlott’s book, Without and within: Essays on territory and the interior (Episode Publishers: Rotterdam). Place Ville Marie, Montréal Place Ville Marie, as pictured on the cover of Webb & Knapp, Inc.’s annual report, 1962. Webb & Knapp was directed by developer...
Rockefeller Center & the 1939 World’s Fair (2007)
→ café libraryMark Pimlott - 31 May 07 Excerpt from Mark Pimlott’s book, Without and within: Essays on territory and the interior (Episode Publishers: Rotterdam). Tomorrow: Rockefeller Center and the 1939 World’s Fair Mark Pimlott. Without and within book cover, (2007). Episode Publishers: Rotterdam. Through the combination of...
Frank Lloyd Wright & Broadacre City (2007)
→ café libraryMark Pimlott - 29 May 07 Excerpt from Mark Pimlott’s book, Without and within: Essays on territory and the interior (Episode Publishers: Rotterdam). Mark Pimlott. Without and within book cover, (2007). Episode Publishers: Rotterdam. Launched in the midst of New Deal programmes, Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1958)...
George Pullman & Pullman, Chicago, Illinois (2007)
→ café libraryMark Pimlott - 28 May 07 Excerpt from Mark Pimlott’s book, Without and within: Essays on territory and the interior (Episode Publishers: Rotterdam). Mark Pimlott. Without and within book cover, (2007). Episode Publishers: Rotterdam. A Company Town was potentially an environment in which labour and local resources...
The condition of publicity
(and its effects on architecture) (2005)
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Mark Pimlott - 28 Apr 05 The following is a presentation text for a lecture given by Mark Pimlott at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) in Rotterdam on 8 April. "Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of their communication." —Marshall...
Brad Lochore at Victoria Miro Gallery (1998)
→ café libraryMark Pimlott - 18 Mar 98 Catalogue essay for Lochore’s exhibition "Still life" (18 March - 17 April 1998). Brad Lochore makes paintings. He takes nothing for granted as to what Painting should be. The habitual characterisations of painting as either abstract or representational are simultaneously invoked and challenged...
Michael Craig-Martin
at Muzeum Sztuki Łódź, Poland (1994)
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Mark Pimlott - 01 Jan 94 Beginning The walls of a gallery room are painted from floor to ceiling and from edge to edge in a single, intense colour. Set within the resulting overwhelming visual field is an object, an open book with empty pages, at about waist-height. It is not a real book, but a depiction of one; a...
Tony Fretton (1990)
→ café libraryMark Pimlott - 01 Oct 90 In his Passagenwerk (Arcade Project), Walter Benjamin speculated on the complex of History and subjugation being ’blasted apart’ by an awakening to the constituents of that History. This would be provoked by the collision of conventions of images normally held at a distance from each other. In a...
