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Britain's Lost Cities
Britain's Lost Cities
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The destruction meted out on Britain's city center during the 20th century, by the combined efforts of the Luftwaffe and brutalist city planners, is legendary. Medieval churches, Tudor alleyways, Georgian terraces, and Victorian theatres vanished forever, to be replaced by a gruesome landscape of concrete office blocks and characterless shopping malls. Now, for the first(...)
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The destruction meted out on Britain's city center during the 20th century, by the combined efforts of the Luftwaffe and brutalist city planners, is legendary. Medieval churches, Tudor alleyways, Georgian terraces, and Victorian theatres vanished forever, to be replaced by a gruesome landscape of concrete office blocks and characterless shopping malls. Now, for the first(...)
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Britain's Lost Cities
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The destruction meted out on Britain's city center during the 20th century, by the combined efforts of the Luftwaffe and brutalist city planners, is legendary. Medieval churches, Tudor alleyways, Georgian terraces, and Victorian theatres vanished forever, to be replaced by a gruesome landscape of concrete office blocks and characterless shopping malls. Now, for the first time, architectural historian Gavin Stamp shows exactly what has been lost. Reproduced in this haunting volume are hundreds of top-quality photographs of cities, showing streets and buildings that are gone forever. The accompanying text traces their creation and destruction, remembering the massive campaign to save the Euston Arch, wantonly demolished in 1962, and mourning the loss of lovely medieval Coventry, which was already doomed by the city planners even before German air raids intervened. Alternately fascinating, enraging, and heartbreaking, this is an extraordinary evocation of Britain's architectural past, and a much-needed reminder of the importance of preserving heritage.
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The destruction meted out on Britain's city center during the 20th century, by the combined efforts of the Luftwaffe and brutalist city planners, is legendary. Medieval churches, Tudor alleyways, Georgian terraces, and Victorian theatres vanished forever, to be replaced by a gruesome landscape of concrete office blocks and characterless shopping malls. Now, for the first time, architectural historian Gavin Stamp shows exactly what has been lost. Reproduced in this haunting volume are hundreds of top-quality photographs of cities, showing streets and buildings that are gone forever. The accompanying text traces their creation and destruction, remembering the massive campaign to save the Euston Arch, wantonly demolished in 1962, and mourning the loss of lovely medieval Coventry, which was already doomed by the city planners even before German air raids intervened. Alternately fascinating, enraging, and heartbreaking, this is an extraordinary evocation of Britain's architectural past, and a much-needed reminder of the importance of preserving heritage.
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October 2007, London
October 2007, London
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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In November 2022, the water level of the Great Salt Lake fell to its lowest on record. Diverted water supply from its feeding rivers, pollution from nearby extraction plants and ravaging droughts have brought this landmark to a crisis point. As the lake reached its lowest ebb, photographer Fazal Sheikh (born 1965), together with writer Terry Tempest Williams (born 1955),(...)
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In November 2022, the water level of the Great Salt Lake fell to its lowest on record. Diverted water supply from its feeding rivers, pollution from nearby extraction plants and ravaging droughts have brought this landmark to a crisis point. As the lake reached its lowest ebb, photographer Fazal Sheikh (born 1965), together with writer Terry Tempest Williams (born 1955),(...)
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Fazal Sheikh: Thirst, Great Salt Lake
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In November 2022, the water level of the Great Salt Lake fell to its lowest on record. Diverted water supply from its feeding rivers, pollution from nearby extraction plants and ravaging droughts have brought this landmark to a crisis point. As the lake reached its lowest ebb, photographer Fazal Sheikh (born 1965), together with writer Terry Tempest Williams (born 1955), walked the shoreline, awed by its epic beauty while recording the destruction of its natural habitats. As Utah native Williams writes in her essay, "Retreat," she is witnessing the death of a lake that has been a constant presence in her life. Meanwhile, Sheikh documents the shrinking salt basin from above, revealing how the lake has been exploited: plundered for its natural salts, dissected by concrete highways, discolored by toxic waste, depleted by evaporation. His images hold a mirror to the lake’s surface, charting its destruction while demanding the viewer’s visceral response.
Fazal Sheikh: Thirst, Great Salt Lake
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In November 2022, the water level of the Great Salt Lake fell to its lowest on record. Diverted water supply from its feeding rivers, pollution from nearby extraction plants and ravaging droughts have brought this landmark to a crisis point. As the lake reached its lowest ebb, photographer Fazal Sheikh (born 1965), together with writer Terry Tempest Williams (born 1955), walked the shoreline, awed by its epic beauty while recording the destruction of its natural habitats. As Utah native Williams writes in her essay, "Retreat," she is witnessing the death of a lake that has been a constant presence in her life. Meanwhile, Sheikh documents the shrinking salt basin from above, revealing how the lake has been exploited: plundered for its natural salts, dissected by concrete highways, discolored by toxic waste, depleted by evaporation. His images hold a mirror to the lake’s surface, charting its destruction while demanding the viewer’s visceral response.
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November 2024
November 2024
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
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Hitoshi Fugo: Kami
Hitoshi Fugo: Kami
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''Kami'' is a deeply personal and meditative project by Japanese photographer Hitoshi Fugo. Conceived across nearly three decades, the work explores the tension between destruction and transformation, between what is lost and what remains. The series juxtaposes two distinct bodies of images: photographs taken in the aftermath of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in(...)
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''Kami'' is a deeply personal and meditative project by Japanese photographer Hitoshi Fugo. Conceived across nearly three decades, the work explores the tension between destruction and transformation, between what is lost and what remains. The series juxtaposes two distinct bodies of images: photographs taken in the aftermath of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in(...)
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
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April 2026
April 2026
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Hitoshi Fugo: Kami
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''Kami'' is a deeply personal and meditative project by Japanese photographer Hitoshi Fugo. Conceived across nearly three decades, the work explores the tension between destruction and transformation, between what is lost and what remains. The series juxtaposes two distinct bodies of images: photographs taken in the aftermath of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe, and close studies of a partially burned industrial paper roll that Fugo found outside a fire-ravaged printing factory in Tokyo. In both, he searches for unexpected beauty in the ruins, forms that have been stripped of their function, worn by time or trauma, yet still resonate with presence. The Japanese word ''kamo'' means both ''god'' and ''paper'' and this ambiguity forms the philosophical core of the work. In the face of natural disaster and human-made destruction, ''Kami'' reflects on the fragility of matter, the absence of divinity, and the possibility of poetic reconstruction through photographic seeing.
Hitoshi Fugo: Kami
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''Kami'' is a deeply personal and meditative project by Japanese photographer Hitoshi Fugo. Conceived across nearly three decades, the work explores the tension between destruction and transformation, between what is lost and what remains. The series juxtaposes two distinct bodies of images: photographs taken in the aftermath of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe, and close studies of a partially burned industrial paper roll that Fugo found outside a fire-ravaged printing factory in Tokyo. In both, he searches for unexpected beauty in the ruins, forms that have been stripped of their function, worn by time or trauma, yet still resonate with presence. The Japanese word ''kamo'' means both ''god'' and ''paper'' and this ambiguity forms the philosophical core of the work. In the face of natural disaster and human-made destruction, ''Kami'' reflects on the fragility of matter, the absence of divinity, and the possibility of poetic reconstruction through photographic seeing.
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April 2026
April 2026
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
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Situé à proximité de la gare, au milieu d'un vaste territoire constitué, d'un côté, par l'immense poche des voies ferrées, de l'autre, par le quartier commercial Saint-Sébastien, le tri postal construit par Claude Prouvé à Nancy établit un subtil équilibre entre l'urbanité élégante d'un immeuble de bureaux et la puissance primitive d'un bâtiment industriel. Il accède à(...)
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Situé à proximité de la gare, au milieu d'un vaste territoire constitué, d'un côté, par l'immense poche des voies ferrées, de l'autre, par le quartier commercial Saint-Sébastien, le tri postal construit par Claude Prouvé à Nancy établit un subtil équilibre entre l'urbanité élégante d'un immeuble de bureaux et la puissance primitive d'un bâtiment industriel. Il accède à(...)
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Claude Prouvé : le Tri postal de Nancy
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Situé à proximité de la gare, au milieu d'un vaste territoire constitué, d'un côté, par l'immense poche des voies ferrées, de l'autre, par le quartier commercial Saint-Sébastien, le tri postal construit par Claude Prouvé à Nancy établit un subtil équilibre entre l'urbanité élégante d'un immeuble de bureaux et la puissance primitive d'un bâtiment industriel. Il accède à cette identité complexe sans détours anecdotiques, par le seul jeu des réponses fonctionnelles et techniques à un programme bien formulé. Point de repère solide dans le paysage urbain quotidien, cet édifice représente aussi, pour les historiens, un élément majeur du patrimoine industriel contemporain. Bien qu'informée, depuis dix ans, de l'intérêt suscité par cette oeuvre, la municipalité a programmé sa destruction. On invoque une opération immobilière autour de la future gare TGV. Alors que l'on se mobilise, un peu partout dans le monde, pour une meilleure prise en compte du patrimoine récent, la destruction du tri postal de Nancy constituerait un acte rétrograde.
Claude Prouvé : le Tri postal de Nancy
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Situé à proximité de la gare, au milieu d'un vaste territoire constitué, d'un côté, par l'immense poche des voies ferrées, de l'autre, par le quartier commercial Saint-Sébastien, le tri postal construit par Claude Prouvé à Nancy établit un subtil équilibre entre l'urbanité élégante d'un immeuble de bureaux et la puissance primitive d'un bâtiment industriel. Il accède à cette identité complexe sans détours anecdotiques, par le seul jeu des réponses fonctionnelles et techniques à un programme bien formulé. Point de repère solide dans le paysage urbain quotidien, cet édifice représente aussi, pour les historiens, un élément majeur du patrimoine industriel contemporain. Bien qu'informée, depuis dix ans, de l'intérêt suscité par cette oeuvre, la municipalité a programmé sa destruction. On invoque une opération immobilière autour de la future gare TGV. Alors que l'on se mobilise, un peu partout dans le monde, pour une meilleure prise en compte du patrimoine récent, la destruction du tri postal de Nancy constituerait un acte rétrograde.
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October 2006, Paris
October 2006, Paris
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small format
small format
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Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In "Self-Devouring Growth" Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which(...)
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Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In "Self-Devouring Growth" Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which(...)
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Self-devouring growth: a planetary fable as told from southern Africa
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Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In "Self-Devouring Growth" Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which the example of Botswana has lessons for the rest of the globe, Livingston shows how fundamental needs for water, food, and transportation become harnessed to what she calls self-devouring growth: an unchecked and unsustainable global pursuit of economic growth that threatens catastrophic environmental destruction. As Livingston notes, improved technology alone cannot stave off such destruction; what is required is a greater accounting of the web of relationships between humans, nonhuman beings, plants, and minerals that growth entails. Livingston contends that by failing to understand these relationships and the consequences of self-devouring growth, we may be unknowingly consuming our future.
Self-devouring growth: a planetary fable as told from southern Africa
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Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In "Self-Devouring Growth" Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which the example of Botswana has lessons for the rest of the globe, Livingston shows how fundamental needs for water, food, and transportation become harnessed to what she calls self-devouring growth: an unchecked and unsustainable global pursuit of economic growth that threatens catastrophic environmental destruction. As Livingston notes, improved technology alone cannot stave off such destruction; what is required is a greater accounting of the web of relationships between humans, nonhuman beings, plants, and minerals that growth entails. Livingston contends that by failing to understand these relationships and the consequences of self-devouring growth, we may be unknowingly consuming our future.
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September 2019
September 2019
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Environment and environmental theory
Environment and environmental theory
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Cet essai sociologique, urbanistique et politique montre, à travers l'exemple de Los Angeles, ce que sera le visage futur de la ville, moins spectaculaire et plus effrayant que la vision futuriste offerte par Blade Runner. Los Angeles porte déjà en elle le modèle vers lequel vont tendre toutes les mégapoles : destruction de la mixité sociale par cloisonnement strict des(...)
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Cet essai sociologique, urbanistique et politique montre, à travers l'exemple de Los Angeles, ce que sera le visage futur de la ville, moins spectaculaire et plus effrayant que la vision futuriste offerte par Blade Runner. Los Angeles porte déjà en elle le modèle vers lequel vont tendre toutes les mégapoles : destruction de la mixité sociale par cloisonnement strict des(...)
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Au-delà de Blade Runner : Los Angeles et l'imagination du desastre
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Cet essai sociologique, urbanistique et politique montre, à travers l'exemple de Los Angeles, ce que sera le visage futur de la ville, moins spectaculaire et plus effrayant que la vision futuriste offerte par Blade Runner. Los Angeles porte déjà en elle le modèle vers lequel vont tendre toutes les mégapoles : destruction de la mixité sociale par cloisonnement strict des couches de populations.
Au-delà de Blade Runner : Los Angeles et l'imagination du desastre
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Cet essai sociologique, urbanistique et politique montre, à travers l'exemple de Los Angeles, ce que sera le visage futur de la ville, moins spectaculaire et plus effrayant que la vision futuriste offerte par Blade Runner. Los Angeles porte déjà en elle le modèle vers lequel vont tendre toutes les mégapoles : destruction de la mixité sociale par cloisonnement strict des couches de populations.
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March 2006, Paris
March 2006, Paris
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Cet essai sociologique, urbanistique et politique montre ce que serait le visage futur de la ville, moins spectaculaire et plus effrayant que la vision futuriste offerte par Philip K. Dick. L'ouvrage explique que Los Angeles porte déjà en elle le modèle vers lequel tendent toutes les mégapoles : la destruction de la mixité sociale par cloisonnement strict des couches de population.
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Cet essai sociologique, urbanistique et politique montre ce que serait le visage futur de la ville, moins spectaculaire et plus effrayant que la vision futuriste offerte par Philip K. Dick. L'ouvrage explique que Los Angeles porte déjà en elle le modèle vers lequel tendent toutes les mégapoles : la destruction de la mixité sociale par cloisonnement strict des couches de population.
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Au-delà de Blade Runner : Los Angeles et l'imagination du désastre, n.é.
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Cet essai sociologique, urbanistique et politique montre ce que serait le visage futur de la ville, moins spectaculaire et plus effrayant que la vision futuriste offerte par Philip K. Dick. L'ouvrage explique que Los Angeles porte déjà en elle le modèle vers lequel tendent toutes les mégapoles : la destruction de la mixité sociale par cloisonnement strict des couches de population.
Au-delà de Blade Runner : Los Angeles et l'imagination du désastre, n.é.
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Cet essai sociologique, urbanistique et politique montre ce que serait le visage futur de la ville, moins spectaculaire et plus effrayant que la vision futuriste offerte par Philip K. Dick. L'ouvrage explique que Los Angeles porte déjà en elle le modèle vers lequel tendent toutes les mégapoles : la destruction de la mixité sociale par cloisonnement strict des couches de population.
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March 2019
March 2019
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Des chroniques éclairant les enjeux politiques qui traversent les grands espaces américains, confrontés à la destruction des habitats, à l'épuisement des ressources naturelles et à un rapport marchand à la nature inhérent à la société capitaliste et à ses politiques de croissance. L'écrivaine y remet l'humain à sa place d'être de passage face à la puissance et à(...)
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Des chroniques éclairant les enjeux politiques qui traversent les grands espaces américains, confrontés à la destruction des habitats, à l'épuisement des ressources naturelles et à un rapport marchand à la nature inhérent à la société capitaliste et à ses politiques de croissance. L'écrivaine y remet l'humain à sa place d'être de passage face à la puissance et à(...)
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Environment and environmental theory
Environment and environmental theory
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January 2022
January 2022
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C'est d'ici que nous observons d'autres villes croître à en perdre la raison
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Des chroniques éclairant les enjeux politiques qui traversent les grands espaces américains, confrontés à la destruction des habitats, à l'épuisement des ressources naturelles et à un rapport marchand à la nature inhérent à la société capitaliste et à ses politiques de croissance. L'écrivaine y remet l'humain à sa place d'être de passage face à la puissance et à l'immensité de ces lieux.
C'est d'ici que nous observons d'autres villes croître à en perdre la raison
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Des chroniques éclairant les enjeux politiques qui traversent les grands espaces américains, confrontés à la destruction des habitats, à l'épuisement des ressources naturelles et à un rapport marchand à la nature inhérent à la société capitaliste et à ses politiques de croissance. L'écrivaine y remet l'humain à sa place d'être de passage face à la puissance et à l'immensité de ces lieux.
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January 2022
January 2022
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Environment and environmental theory
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In his recent work ‘The Rape of Africa’ the artist draws inspiration in, and provides a response to, Botticelli’s painting ‘Venus and Mars’. LaChappelle’s contemporary tableau tells a story of innocence, war, destruction and material consumption balanced alongside beauty and desire. This catalogue explores this piece through a double-page, full-colour spread of the work,(...)
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In his recent work ‘The Rape of Africa’ the artist draws inspiration in, and provides a response to, Botticelli’s painting ‘Venus and Mars’. LaChappelle’s contemporary tableau tells a story of innocence, war, destruction and material consumption balanced alongside beauty and desire. This catalogue explores this piece through a double-page, full-colour spread of the work,(...)
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
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August 2009, Amsterdam
August 2009, Amsterdam
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Daivd Lachapelle: the rape of Africa
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In his recent work ‘The Rape of Africa’ the artist draws inspiration in, and provides a response to, Botticelli’s painting ‘Venus and Mars’. LaChappelle’s contemporary tableau tells a story of innocence, war, destruction and material consumption balanced alongside beauty and desire. This catalogue explores this piece through a double-page, full-colour spread of the work, various sketches, preparatory watercolours and two essays.
Daivd Lachapelle: the rape of Africa
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In his recent work ‘The Rape of Africa’ the artist draws inspiration in, and provides a response to, Botticelli’s painting ‘Venus and Mars’. LaChappelle’s contemporary tableau tells a story of innocence, war, destruction and material consumption balanced alongside beauty and desire. This catalogue explores this piece through a double-page, full-colour spread of the work, various sketches, preparatory watercolours and two essays.
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August 2009, Amsterdam
August 2009, Amsterdam
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
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The Friedman House is a modernist icon, designed by Frederic Lasserre, founder of the UBC School of Architecture, and landscaped by Cornelia Oberlander. Faced with demolition, it was saved by purchasers who understood its architectural value and historical significance. This book reflects on the possibility of its destruction, remarking on what has been salvaged by its(...)
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The Friedman House is a modernist icon, designed by Frederic Lasserre, founder of the UBC School of Architecture, and landscaped by Cornelia Oberlander. Faced with demolition, it was saved by purchasers who understood its architectural value and historical significance. This book reflects on the possibility of its destruction, remarking on what has been salvaged by its(...)
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Frederic Laserre, Friedman House. West Coast Modern house series
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The Friedman House is a modernist icon, designed by Frederic Lasserre, founder of the UBC School of Architecture, and landscaped by Cornelia Oberlander. Faced with demolition, it was saved by purchasers who understood its architectural value and historical significance. This book reflects on the possibility of its destruction, remarking on what has been salvaged by its continued existence, and what could have potentially been lost.
Frederic Laserre, Friedman House. West Coast Modern house series
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The Friedman House is a modernist icon, designed by Frederic Lasserre, founder of the UBC School of Architecture, and landscaped by Cornelia Oberlander. Faced with demolition, it was saved by purchasers who understood its architectural value and historical significance. This book reflects on the possibility of its destruction, remarking on what has been salvaged by its continued existence, and what could have potentially been lost.
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June 2017
June 2017
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Canadian Architects
Canadian Architects
