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Archetypes
- Title
- Archetypes / David K. Ross ; texts, Reto Geiser [and three others].
- Author
- Ross, David K.
- Publication
- Zurich : Park Books, [2021]
- ©2021
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- Description
- 119 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm
- Summary
- "Archetypes features a recent series by Canadian artist David K. Ross, who works at the interface of photography, film, and installation. His images of architectural mock-ups, staged at night with dramatic lighting that isolates structures from their surroundings, demonstrate how these objects have become a charged form of proto-architecture. They also change how we view the practice of architecture by documenting and framing unseen aspects of its emergence. Built at full scale, these architectural fragments--to be removed from construction sites as buildings near completion--ensure that a project can be executed exactly to design, and they provide clients with a simulation of a building that leaves little space for speculation. The task of mock-up documentation is usually left to architects and contractors, who take quick snapshots for their reference during site visits. Archetypes is the first-ever photographic compilation of this type, reaching beyond a mere artistic record of building technologies and typologies. Instead, the book offers an effective platform to consider what it means to pre-construct fragments of buildings in all their complexity. Published alongside Ross's images are four essays framing the historical, technological, and civic significance of the mock-up. Archetypes offers an intellectual and aesthetic reference for a wide range of audiences from professionals in architecture to anyone interested in photography and art, or fascinated by arcane aspects of building construction."--Amazon.ca.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Pictorial works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Between representation and reality / Reto Geiser -- Manifest materiality / Ted Kesik -- Masks that hide nothing but themselves / Peter Sealy -- Seeking a memorial at the site of encroachment / Sky Goodden.
- Call Number
- TR659
- ISBN
- 9783038602217
- 3038602213
- OCLC
- on1255800111
- 1255800111
- SCSB-13956791
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries