The Gate of the Present

The subtitle is 25 portes contemporaines en briques Lego, avec introduction historique. The catalogue has 132 pages. It consists of:

• Introduction by Albert Roskam of Stichting Kunstprojecten. (page 3)
• Historical introduction of gates by Anna Mesure and Volker Fisher. (French title: Prècisions sur l'architecture des portes, leur histoire sociale et culturelle.) (page 5-27)
• Epilogue. (page 28)
• The architects. (page 29) followed by descriptions of the 25 gates which were made of LEGO® bricks. These are:
  1. The Gate of the Present, James Grose (1957), Nicola Bradley (1957), Rushcutters Bay, Australia. Dimensions 64 x 121.6 x 123 cm, about 92,660 bricks. (page 30-33)
  2. The Gate of the Present, Vienne, Georg Driendl (1956), Gerhard Steixner (1953), Vienne, Austria. Dimensions 75 x 113 x 65 cm, about 8360 bricks. (page 34-37)
  3. The Gate of the Present, Koen Deprez (1961), Francis Zelck (1963), Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium. Dimensions 70.4 x 135.2 x 135 cm, about 29,000 bricks (page 38-41)
  4. The Gate of the Present, Givaldo Luiz Medeiros (1963), Alexandre Santos Loureiro (1961), Sao Paolo, Brasil, Dimensions 134.4 x 68.8 x 135 cm, about 106,500 bricks (page 42-45)
  5. The Gate of the Present, Anne Cormier (1959), Randy Cohen (1958), Howard Davies (1959), Montreal, Canada. Dimensions 140 x 133 x 75 cm, about 44,000 bricks. (page 46-49)
  6. The Gate of the Present, Thomas Wiesner (1956), Kopenhage, Danmark. Dimensions 136 x 70.4 x 135 cm, about 51,700 bricks. (page 50-53)
  7. The Gate of the Present, Simo Freese, Helsinki, Finland. Dimensions 136 x 20.8 x 122 cm, about 33,200 bricks. (page 54-57)
  8. The Gate of the Present, Frédéric Druot (1958), Jean-Luc Goulesque (1957), Patrick Jean (1952), Luis Filipe Pais de Figueiredo (1956), Jacques Robert (1957), Jean Charles Zebo (1958), Bordeaux, France. Dimensions 44 x 32.8 x 77.5 cm, about 14,940 bricks. (page 58-61)
  9. The Gate of the Present, Jens Jacob Happ (1960), Franfurt-am-main, Germany. Dimensions 52.8 x 9.6 x 80 cm, about 11,300 bricks. (page 62-65)
  10. The Gate of the Present, Jon Tollit (1957), Londres, Royaume-Uni. Dimensions 75.2 x 139.2 x 102 cm, about 62,250 bricks. (page 66-69)
  11. The Gate of the Present, Anastasia Moutsidou (1961), Agmes Couvelas (1943), Thanasis Sotiriou (1965), Athense, Griece. Dimensions 91.2 x 68.8 x 91 cm, about 34,030 bricks. (page 70-73)
  12. The Gate of the Present, Juliette Bekkering (1963), Michiel Riedijk (1964), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Dimensions 126.2 x 62.7 x 135 cm, about 126,160 bricks. (page 74-77)
  13. The Gate of the Present, Endre Borza (1959), Pécs, Hungaria. Dimensions 117 x 91 x 71 cm, about 11,620 bricks. (page 78-81)
  14. Le Nouvelle Porte, Vittorio Prina (1959), Pavia, Italia. Dimensions 132.8 x 54.4 x 135 cm, about 59,760 bricks. (page 82-85)
  15. The Gate of the Present, Hideki Yoshimatsu (1958), Tokio, Japan. Dimensions 59.8 x 256 x 26 cm, about 41,500 bricks. (page 86-89)
  16. La Porte de la Transformation, Kunihiro Hamada (1960), Kyoto, Japan. Dimensions 117.5 x 56 x 136 cm, about 28,500 bricks. (page 90-93)
  17. The Gate of the Present, João Santa-Rita (1960), Lisabon, Portugal. Dimensions 134.4 x 70.4 x 136 cm, about 131,900 bricks. (page 94-97)
  18. The Gate of the Present, Andrej Ivanov (1960), Moscow, Russia. Dimensions 85.6 x 133.6 x 55 cm, about 29,050 bricks. (page 98-101)
  19. The Gate of the Present, Victor Subbotin (1959), Moscow Russia. Dimensions 123.2 x 60.8 x 135 cm, about 39,840 bricks. (page 102-105)
  20. La Porte dans la porte, Young Joo Huh (1960), Sogwipo City, South Korea. Dimensions 41.6 x 29.6 x 43 cm, about 9,130 bricks. (page 106-109)
  21. L'Impossible Porte du Présent, Ton Salvadó i Cambré (1962), Esteve Aymerich i Serra (1962), Barcelona, Spain. Dimensions 134.4 x 67.2 x 132.8 cm, about 134,500 bricks. (page 110-113)
  22. Doux Cénotaphe, Weronica Ronnefalk (1963), Björn Wiklander (1966), Mikalel Askergren (1960), Stockholm, Sweden. Dimensions 135.2 x 70.4 x 0.8 cm, about 5,650 bricks. (page 114-117)
  23. The Gate of the Present, Tristan Kobler (1960), Zurich, Swiss. Dimensions 52.8 x 72.8 x 81 cm, about 36,700 bricks. (page 118-121)
  24. The Gate of the Present, Brad Cloepfil (1958), John Cava (1958), Portland, United States. Dimensions 132.8 x 75.4 x 94 cm, about 30,800 bricks. (page 122-125)
  25. La Porte des Portes, Donna Selene Seftel (1958), New York, United States. Dimensions 135.2 x 75.2 x 140 cm, about 47,300 bricks. (page 126-129)
• five pictures made during construction (page 130)
• Lego Bricks - toy and culture (page 131)
• Colophone (page 132)