Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 700 EAN: 9781861541994 ISBN: 1861541996 Label: Booth-Clibborn Manufacturer: Booth-Clibborn Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: September 01, 2000 Publisher: Booth-Clibborn Sales Rank: 2269277 Studio: Booth-Clibborn
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Product DescriptionVoyage is an exploration of the work of Nadim Karam and Atelier Hapsitus from the late eighties to the present. Blurring the edges between art, architecture and urbanism, they have created art installations for places as varies as Beirut museum squares, Prague bridges, the gardens of the temple of Nara [Japan], and a simultaneous London/Dublin urban installation.
Voyage is about transporting fantasy into the urban arena and making it reality. On one level, it shows how giant urban sculptures, story-telling architecture and an ideological approach to urbanism all emphasize the need for dreams in the city. On another level, the book introduces the Age of Voy, a quixotic fictional journey accompanied by the Archaic Procession, an infinite line of shadow creatures traversing time and space which manifest themselves in the form of stories, paintings and sculptures. Via their stories we are taken forward into the new millenium.
Nadim Karam received a PhD in architecture from the University of Tokyo in 1989. Two years later he founded Atelier Hapsitus, and has become known for his unique urban projects. He lectures worldwide.
Includes contributions from prominent architects, artists and critic such as Hiroshi Hara and Pierre Restany
International press coverage in A=U, Domus and Blueprint
Parallel to this publication is a website to include games on the theme of the archaic procession for children; and the book Voyage on line.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - awsome
This is an amazing book, full of imagery and energy. It possesses a reality that supercedes the problematic disposition of a city, an instead offers a new reality. Thanks nadim.
Rating: - awsome
This is an amazing book, full of imagery and energy. It possesses a reality that supercedes the problematic disposition of a city, an instead offers a new reality. Thanks nadim.
