Éditeur : COACH HOUSE BOOKS
ISBN papier: 9781552452325
Parution : 2010
Code produit : 1462684
Catégorisation :
Livres /
Sciences humaines /
Arts et performances artistiques /
Architecture
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Livre papier | En rupture de stock** |
Prix membre : 20,85 $ Prix non-membre : 21,95 $ |
*Les prix sont en dollars canadien. Taxes et frais de livraison en sus.
**Ce produits est en rupture de stock mais sera expédié dès qu'ils sera disponible.
What if there is no ‘space,’ only a permanent, slow-motion mystic takeover, an implausibly careening awning? Nothing is utopian. Everything wants to be. Soft Architects face the reaching middle. If architecture is the language of concrete and steel, then Soft Architecture needs a vocabulary of ï¬esh, air, fabric and colour. It’s about civic surface and natural history. It’s about social space, clothing, urban geography, visual art and the intersection of all these. This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson, the ambulatory Office for Soft Architecture. There are essays – many originally published as catalogue texts by art galleries – on the syntax of the suburban home, Vancouver fountains, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, scaffolding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry. There are also seven Walks, tours of Vancouver sites – poetic dioramas, really, and more material than cement could ever be. Soft Architecture exists at the crossroads of poetry, theory, urban geography and cultural criticism, some place where the quotidian and the metaphysical marry and invert. And it makes for one of the most intriguing books you’ll ever read. Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture was originally published by Clear Cut Press in 2004. This revised edition features an introduction by Petra Blaisse and new material. ‘We say, on almost every page and with utmost reverence, Holy shit. … Ever since, we have wanted to think like Robertson, write like her, maybe even be her.’
Livre papier | 0 |
Prix membre : 24,26 $ Prix non-membre : 26,95 $ |
Éditeur : QUARTANIER
ISBN : 9782896986446
Parution : 2023
Livre papier | 0 |
Prix membre : 24,26 $ Prix non-membre : 26,95 $ |
Éditeur : NOUS
ISBN : 9782370840318
Parution : 2016