The Additional Element in Architecture
On Kazimir Malevich’s Arkhitektons and Planits
$134.75
- Paperback
392 pages
- Release Date
17 June 2025
Summary
An ingenious reconstruction and revealing analysis through “visual archaeology” of avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich’s lost arkhitektons.
Among the Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich’s most intriguing works, the arkhitektons are also the most enigmatic, as these quasi-architectural sculptures made in the 1920s were almost entirely lost, along with many of the accompanying drawings, or planits. In The Additional Element in Architecture, Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Paul…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262548908 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262548909 |
| Author: | Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Paulina Bitran |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 392 |
| Release Date: | 17 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 159mm x 241mm |
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Pedro Ignacio Alonso
Pedro Ignacio Alonso is Associate Professor and the director of the PhD program in Architecture, Design, and Urban Studies at the Universidad Cat lica de Chile. He is the co-curator of Monolith Controversies, which won the 2014 Silver Lion for the Chilean Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Paulina Bitran is an architect. She has worked as an independent researcher in projects related to art, museography, and archaeology, including installation work and production of archaeological exhibitions at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. She is currently dedicated to landscape architecture in Mexico City.
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