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Catalogue

Seeding Change: Visionary Timber Architecture at Hooke Park, 1981–2001
Edited by Kate Davies and Anna Lisa Reynolds
Sharp Words: Selected Essays of Dennis Sharp
Edited by Paul Finch
Small Architecture/Natural Architecture
Kengo Kuma
Snowing in the Supercomputer
Unknown Fields
Some Reasons For Travelling To Italy
Peter Wilson
Stefan Sebok 1901–1941: In Search of a Forgotten Architect
Lilly Dubowitz
Sub-urbanism and the Art of Memory
Sébastien Marot
The Breastmilk of the Volcano
Unknown Fields
The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K Le Guin
Edited by So Mayer and Sarah Shin
The World of Madelon Vriesendorp
Edited by Shumon Basar and Stefan Trüby
Third Natures
Cristina Diaz Moreno and Efrén Garcia Grinda
Translated By
Edited by Charles Arsène-Henry and Shumon Basar
Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays
Robin Evans
Treasured Island
Unknown Fields
Venice Takeaway: Ideas to Change British Architecture

Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

Mark Campbell

AA Publications

This book explores the notion of architectural obsolescence through a study of the United States. While the US was the world’s greatest economic, scientific and cultural force during the 20th century, it now appears obsessed with its own decline. In this obsession the changing patterns of consumption and demand often result in an architectural redundancy where buildings exist as a form of byproduct or residue. While the 20th-century image of the US reflects the heroic potential of production, this book examines the opposite – of that which isn’t work. Or, more pointedly, those abandoned pleasures and lost paradises that remain when there is no longer any work left to define them.

9781907896699, 2016
24 × 21cm, illustrated, 128pp, paperback

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