archphoto 2.0 #05. American Frontier

25/08/2016

When Frederick Jackson Turner published his thesis on American history in 1893, he saw in the frontier – a sparsely inhabited territory in direct contact with the wilderness – the essence of a new Weltanschauung.
Index:
Introduction by Luca Guido, Emanuele Piccardo
Emanuele Piccardo_Earthworks and Eartharchitectures: New Monuments into the Frontier Reyner Banham_The Mesa Messiah
Alessandro Lanzetta_Banham’s Lesson
Luca Guido_Ocatillo Desert Camp
Paolo Soleri_Arcology
Emanuele Piccardo, Filippo Romano_Soleritown
Dialogues: Clark Richert/Drop City
Lapo Gresleri_The Frontier Myth in John Ford’s Westerns
Dialogues: Jerry Sohn
Arata Isozaki_Obscured Horizon
Linda Taalman_OFF-Grid IT Studio
Magdalen Boyd-Wilson_Dragonfly
Amit Wolf_Hyper Kinematics, Soft Behaviors.

Publisher: PLUG_IN. 2015. Softcover. 15×21 cm. Pages: 122. Language: English. Color illustrated. RRP:€ 10,00. ISBN: 978-88-95459-24-0