The Designers Republic - Latent Utopias Learn Less - circa 2002
Magnificent booklet of projects by The Designer Republic, with material and texture effects. Very 90's.
"In 2002, at the Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher-curated Latent Utopias (Experiments within Contemporary Architecture) exhibition at Steirischer Herbst in Graz, Sadar Vuga Arhitekti and The Designers Republic converted a quarter-section of a circular corridor in the Landesmuseum Joanneum into a series of identical, claustrophobic grey cells (capacity 17 people) disconnected by sliding doors and true/false typographical architectural dictates proven and/or disproven by the addition of same-size (UN)/(SO) text from the front/back of the accompanying catalogue.
The catalogue itself was conceived and designed as a prototype for the planned second SVA and TDR focusing on (The) 17 Tendencies In (Of) Architecture (Optical Wall/Permeable Structure/Sequence Shell/Landscaper/Urban Graft etc). The book never happened, weighed down, as it was, in its original incarnation by cultural ambition: Jamie Oliver talking about one tendency in the context of food (luvverly jubbly); another a travelogue through a building with Louis Theroux."
EN - 21x29.5cm - softcover - perfect condition
"In 2002, at the Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher-curated Latent Utopias (Experiments within Contemporary Architecture) exhibition at Steirischer Herbst in Graz, Sadar Vuga Arhitekti and The Designers Republic converted a quarter-section of a circular corridor in the Landesmuseum Joanneum into a series of identical, claustrophobic grey cells (capacity 17 people) disconnected by sliding doors and true/false typographical architectural dictates proven and/or disproven by the addition of same-size (UN)/(SO) text from the front/back of the accompanying catalogue.
The catalogue itself was conceived and designed as a prototype for the planned second SVA and TDR focusing on (The) 17 Tendencies In (Of) Architecture (Optical Wall/Permeable Structure/Sequence Shell/Landscaper/Urban Graft etc). The book never happened, weighed down, as it was, in its original incarnation by cultural ambition: Jamie Oliver talking about one tendency in the context of food (luvverly jubbly); another a travelogue through a building with Louis Theroux."
EN - 21x29.5cm - softcover - perfect condition