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NEW AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE
Edited and Selected by Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine
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The best and newest bold experiments in architecture today defined by the leading-edge architecture offices in the United States are showcased in this catalogue from the results of The Chicago Athenaeum's American Architecture Awards from 2004 and 2005 as selected by juries from The Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (RIAI) in Dublin and the Norske Arkitekters Landsforbund (The National Association of Norwegian Architects) in Oslo.
The book documents the latest designs for new commercial, institutional, and residential design for both built and unbuilt projects (2002-2005), showcasing the most important architecture firms in America and highlighting the rich diversity in American design thought and philosophical approach to design theory as practiced nationally today.
A total of 80 projects are richly illustrated including designs for skyscrapers, highrises, commercial buildings, corporate headquarters, healthcare facilities, airports, transportation centers, museums and cultural facilities, religious structures, institutional buildings, housing projects, urban planning, single family homes, residential designs, showrooms, retail stores, interiors, office environments, preservation and restoration, and multi-family housing in the United States and around the world. Soft Cover, Perfect Bound, 176 pages.
ISBN: 0-935119-14-0 $26.95 USA |
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INSPIRATION: NATURE AND THE POET
A COLLECTION OF POEMS BY CHICAGO ARCHITECT LOUIS H. SULLIVAN
Edited, Selected, and Introducted by Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine
Additional Introduction by Frank Lloyd Wright |
This first collection of poems by Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) summons the artist to a new light apart from his fame as a leading American Architect of the 19th-Century. The book elevates Louis Sullivan as a major American poet in his own right, deeply influenced by the classical literary traditions of the late 1800s and the highly intense American transcendentalist movement of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. The anthology contains Sullivan's major trilogy "Nature and the Poet," including "Inspiration" (written in 1886), and "The Master" and "Sympathy—A Romanza" (two previously unpublished works). Others poems and prosaic works such as "Wherefore the Poet," "Spring Song," "Autumn Glory," and "The Dance of Death," some unpublished and some previously published, remain an important metaphoric key in the understanding of Sullivan's architectural genius; his design process, and his creative theories. The collection starts with a work by Frank Lloyd Wright written as an obituary for Sullivan—a highly charged and emotional document that explains Sullivan's symbolist, metaphysical communion with nature, art, and the divine power. Approximately 180 pages.
ISBN: 0-935119-03-5 $18.95 USA |
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ZONE OF SORROW
WORKS OF ART BY THE CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL
Edited, Selected, and Introducted by Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine and Charlotte Narkiewicz-Laine
Additional Essay "A Day Inside the Apocalpyse" by Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine |
In the wake of this worst environmental disaster ever recorded in human history, over 800,000 Belarussian children (2.2 million total Belarussians) have been exposed to various degrees of radiation poisoning. Almost two decades later, those numbers are still climbing. The radioactive nuclides—iodine, cesium, plutonium, strontium— released after the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor's core was nearly 200 times that of the combined releases from the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Thousands of children and adults have died or remain permanently hospitalized and critically ill with severe Leukemia, hyper plasma of the thyroid, and other cancer sicknesses. There are also mysterious illnesses that have not been diagnosed. They call it Chernobyl AIDS. This compounded with the storage of housing, jobs, alcoholism, poverty, and the continuing political havoc that continues to plague these parts of Eastern Europe is more than just devastation. It equals, perhaps, the most abysmal human tragedy of our time.
In an effort to increase a greater public awareness for Chernobyl, The Chicago Athenaeum and The Radziwill/jodko-Narkiewicz Foundation has organized this catalogue and this exhibition for travel in the United States and Europe. These is no profounder way to document this tragedy than through the eyes of its most innocent victims: The Children of Chernobyl.
The works of art published here originate from therapy programs designed to support the morale of the sick children confined to hospitals and orphanages while waiting for short-supply medical care. The art is particularly poignant and haunting—real-life images of what it is like to live in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Other paintings record the emotional upheaval of abandoning the homes and villages of their families, often times leaving their elderly and pets behind. Other paintings document the Chernobyl Blast and the invisible danger surrounding radiation contamination.
ISBN: 0-935119-14-0 $26.95 USA |
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NEW CHICAGO SKYSCRAPERS
A FILM BY ANSSI BLOOMSTEDT (FINLAND)
Produced and Co-Directed by Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine
English/VHS/29 Minutes |
A documentary on the continuing development of Chicago's revolutionary design for the high-rise and its impact on the city.
The documentary includes interviews with Cesar Pelli, John Burgee, William Petersen, Adrian Smith, and Helmut Jahn.
The film studies five of Chicago's most innovative and celebrated new high-rise buildings built in the 1990s.
English/VHS/29minutes
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