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Book “Interior Tales” published

Published

9 December 2015

Category

Discourse

A new book by Black Square Press explores the power of narrative through drawings, movies, and architecture, featuring visual essays by 2A+P/A, Fala, Microcities, and TSPA.

Rethinking the Instruments That Shape Cities

Interior Tales, edited by Francisco Sanin and Davide Sacconi, poses a fundamental question about the instruments that create the contemporary city. The publication is based on research developed at the Syracuse University School of Architecture, London.

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“A metabolic process is operating in the city, manipulating and giving form to our own way of dwelling in space before shaping space itself.In such a condition, it is crucial to challenge and rethink the grand modernist project of housing and imagine radical alternatives to the ways in which architects can intervene in the city.”
– Thomas