"This past November, Berlin gained yet one more spectacular example of contemporary architecture. The new Dutch Embassy by OMA/Rem Koolhaas has been built on the River Spree in what used to be East Berlin. Renowned for his Kunsthal in Rotterdam, Congrexpo in Lille, and the villa in Bordeaux, among other extraordinary projects, Koolhaas will now also be recognized for his Berlin embassy, a structure that firmly attests to the astonishing ..."
"This volume of Höfer's most recent photographs made inside ethnographic museums reveals a self-contained world of clinical and regimented installations, eerily devoid of any human presence. Other photographs guide us through equally fascinating behind-the-scenes museum locations--storerooms, archives, workshops and restoration studios."
"In 1347, during the seige of Calais, King Edward III agreed to spare the population of the town on the condition that six of the most important citizens leave Calais bareheaded and barefoot, with a rope around their necks, carrying the keys to the town and the castle. In 1884, the City of Calais commissioned August Rodin to create what is arguably his most famous bronze statue, The Burghers of Calais, a radically new type of monument d ..."
Candida Hofer(1st Edition) Dresden द्वारा Marcel Beyer , Candida Hofer Paperback, 128 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2007 द्वारा Walther Konig ISBN-13: 978-3-88375-858-9, ISBN: 3-88375-858-2