Cyprien Gaillard's work explores the effect of architecture on human life, using techniques borrowed from Land Art and Minimalism. He treats modernist buildings as romantic ruins, and aestheticizes their destruction. Gaillard films the demolition of housing projects and the explosions that carve away

Architectural, Catastrophe, Melancholy, Minimal, Monumental, Nostalgic, Pastoral, Power

Dr. Eugene Tsui is an internationally renowned visionary architect and urban planner, as well as an accomplished clothing designer and Olympic gymnast. He has developed a unique theory of architecture based on organic forms, and creates unusual designs drawn from natural structures like nests, webs,

Architectural, Experimental, Functional, Hi-tech, Organic, Pioneering, Playful, Polychromatic

Mika Rottenberg is a sculptor and video arts who builds large, complex sets inhabited by women performing illogical, assembly line tasks. In "Dough", for example, a woman in a tiny room smells flowers to induce hay fever. Her tears run down her legs and through a tiny hole in the floor, where other w

Absurd, Architectural, Feminist, Funny, Grotesque, Kinetic, Physical force, Repetitive

Rei Kawakubo is an avant-garde fashion designer, artist, and founder of the label Comme des Garcons. Originally trained in fine arts, Kawakubo turned her attention to fashion and established her label in 1973. In 1983, Kawakubo and Comme des Garcons showed their collection in Paris to rave revi

Architectural, Conceptual, Experimental, Intense, Pioneering, Rebel