| Space Race Archaeologies: Photographs, Biographies and Design Contributor(s): Alonso, Pedro (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3869225378 ISBN-13: 9783869225371 Publisher: Dom Publishers OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | History - Contemporary (1945 -) - Design | History & Criticism - Art | Russia & Former Soviet Union |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 8.3" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As the byproduct of the Cold War, the space race produced a considerable number of objects disseminated in networks, not only in the East and West but also in the global South - rockets, launching pads, satellite tracking stations, astronomical observatories, and several other pieces of design, machineries and infrastructures. As they stand today, these objects are remnants of a modernity tied to secrecy, war deterrence, and mass media associated to outer-space politics. By bringing together the work of photographer Petr Antonov, architect Philipp Meuser, designer Hugo Palmarola, and historian of science Asif Siddiqi, this book comes from a conference held at the Princeton University School of Architecture in March 2016 on technology and the Cold War, contesting the historiographical status of these objects in order to give value to the manner in which they came to construct current modes of subjectivity and social relations. |
Contributor Bio(s): Alonso, Pedro: - Pedro Ignacio Alonso is Associate Professor at the Universidad Católica de Chile and Program Director of the Architectural Association's Visiting School to Santiago. Together with Hugo Palmarola he won the Silver Lion as curator and author of Monolith Controversies, Chile's Pavilion at the 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture 2014. They have published the books Panel (Architectural Association, 2014) and Monolith Controversies (Hatje Cantz, 2014), obtaining a DAM Architectural Book Award granted by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum and Frankfurt Book Fair. He has published articles at AA Files, San Rocco and Manifest, and book chapters with Routledge (2013), and MIT Press (2014). He was Princeton-Mellon Fellow 2015-2016. |