The CCA bookstore has released their latest selection of books which include a catalogue of the pan-African digital exhibition and podcast series, an anthology and more.
Here are the latest selections.
Protest Architecture: Barricades, Camps, Spatial Tactics 1830–2023
Park Books, 2023
Protest movements shape public space not only through their messages but in many cases also through their mostly temporary buildings. Frankfurt’s Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAM and Vienna’s MAK—Museum of Applied Arts explore this thesis in a joint exhibition project.
The exhibition and this book put a spotlight on the topic and use examples spanning from 1830 to 2022. Protest Architecture is an international survey of the architecture of protest and is conceived as an encyclopedia with 176 entries, supplemented by 16 expansive case studies.
Archive of forgetfulness
Huda Tayob. Jacana 2023
Archive of Forgetfulness is a catalogue of the pan-African digital exhibition and podcast series which ran from September 2020 and December 2021. This catalogue acts as a translation of the collection of work online, and aims to open up a discussion around archives, memory and forgetfulness.
The project includes the work of fifty-six artists, cultural producers, curators, creative thinkers and researchers from the African continent and diaspora.
Soil Lab: A built experiment
Eibhlín Ní Chathasaigh, James Albert Martin, Anne Dorthe Vester, Maria Bruun. Actar 2023
This anthology is a reflection on the making of Soil Lab, a project built with a community in North Lawndale, Chicago, and hosted by the Danish Arts Foundation at the 2021 edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
The book features voices which contributed to the Soil Lab project and goes into detail about its story.
L’Image édifiante : Le rôle des images de référence en architecture
Anne Frémy. Éditions de La Villette 2023
This richly illustrated book draws on many iconographic traditions associated with space – from contemplative and divinatory procedures to the arts of memory, from visual schematizations in philosophy to the contemporary practice of the atlas – to shed light on what has remained unthought of, or even invisible: the conceptual and operative role of images in the process of architectural creation.
D’après maquettes
Thierry Leviez, Mathilde Roman. Manuella Editions 2023
Models have many valuable uses in the construction of an exhibition, as tools for design, imagination and verification. Light in handling, they involve the eye, the hand and the whole body, multiplying points of view. When preserved, they become world-objects open to appropriation. The model is at the heart of artistic practices that take up its codes and reinvent its function. It becomes a work of art, an accessory for photographic or performative staging, or even an exhibition. The model activates a mental part that involves the spectator in the elaboration of fictions.
It’s also a space for manipulating the gaze through effects of illusion, distortion and close-up, sometimes putting the forms of perception to the test. Artists, architects, scenographers, historians and theoreticians share their practices, intuitions and research based on models.
Architecture Studio en Liberté : l’agence-époque
Jean-Louis Violeau, Hermann 2023
An “epochal agency”, Architecture Studio has grown with the times since it was founded in 1973, always expressing the great moments of the periods it has lived through, be they imbued with hope or signs of concern. The sixties, the effervescence of militancy, the Mars 76 movement and the creation of the architecture union, the Les Halles counter-competition, the development of social housing with the participation of residents… Then came the Mitterrand years, the Arab World Institute and the major projects resulting from decentralization. Ten years later, the European Parliament in Strasbourg heralded a process of globalization that would begin in China and Asia, before reaching the African continent. The opening of a common house in Venice in 2010 and the scenario and plan for a green city for the new center of Kabul in Afghanistan mark the high point of this era.
Superpositions 2: Workout
Freek Persyn, Superpositions 2023
The story behind Superposition’s title is as follows: ‘Super connotes the extraordinary in a positive sense. Position refers equally to a spatial, a temporal and an intellectual emplacement.’
After a debut issue exploring the Hardcore Home, the team returns with an equally graphic sophomore issue, themed ‘Workout’. This book includes interviews with Feyikemi Bello, OK-RM, POor Collective and more, as well as essays on ‘Italian pop nostalgia‘, the landscapes of Athens and destruction within public art.
Harvard Design Review 51: Multihyphenate
Harvard Design Review 2023
Multihyphenation refers to alternate modes of creative production: “collab” culture, “brand X brand” projects, and multiple or even opaque styles of attribution and ownership among individuals, studios, and practices. Architects, curators, fashion designers, scholars, and artists were invited to question the theme from different points of view.
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