Retail apocalypse / edited by Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen and Adam Jasper in collaboration with Mark Lee, Chair of the Department of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, with the participation of Lisa Boos and Valentina Ehnimb ; editorial assistance, Lisa Boos and Valentina Ehnimb ; authors, Fredi Fischli [and nineteen others].
Zürich, Switzerland : GTA Verlag, ETH Zürich, [2021]
©2021
613 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, plans ; 28 cm
Shopping is history, in both senses of the word. As shopping shifts online and the economic shocks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic push bankruptcies to unprecedented levels, retail is facing its own version of the end of days. The arsenal of commercial techniques that retail has developed can no longer function as usual. The entangled worlds of architecture, fashion, business and art that supplied those techniques now appear to us in a new way, as a museum of a culture that is now becoming extinct. At the same time, retail's techniques of attraction and distraction have become visible in a new way. Stripped of their use value, they reveal themselves as techniques of pure display. Retail Apocalypse presents a compendium of case studies, interventions, and object lessons rescued from the bonfire of retail culture. It ranges from Friedrich Kiesler's display windows to Gae Aulenti's Fiat showrooms, from J.G. Ballard's dystopian fantasies to TELFAR's critical utopias, from Rem Koolhaas to Herzog & de Meuron.
9783856764142 (paperback)
3856764143 (paperback)
Stores, Retail Design and construction Exhibitions.
Stores, Retail Design and construction
Exhibition catalogs
Fischli, Fredi, editor, author.
Olsen, Niels, 1989- editor, author.
Jasper, Adam, editor, author.
Boos, Lisa, editor, author.
Ehnimb, Valentina, editor.
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, host institution.
Frances L. Loeb Library, host institution.
Centre canadien d'architecture, host institution.
Location: Library main 319034
Call No.: 319034
Status: Available
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