| Ministry of Highways: A Guide to the Performative Architecture of Tbilisi Contributor(s): Warsza, Joanna (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3943365727 ISBN-13: 9783943365726 Publisher: Sternberg Press OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | History - Contemporary (1945 -) - Architecture | Criticism - Art | Russia & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 720.9 |
| Series: Sternberg Press |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (1.00 lbs) 218 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Once described as "Italy gone Marxist," Georgia, located in both an advantageous and vulnerable geopolitical position between the Black Sea, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, enjoys a Mediterranean climate and viniculture in combination with a community-oriented and self-determined spirit. Its informal, vernacular, and palimpsestic architecture--reflected in the stunning former Ministry of Highways erected in 1975--reveals the uncanny anticipatory and progressive potential of a place where the past is neither monumentalized nor destroyed, but built upon. Taking the exhibition "Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back" (2010) as its starting point, this guidebook maps the social, urban, and art discourses of the country's post-Soviet years as seen from its hilly capital of Tbilisi. The publication accompanies the exhibition of the Georgian Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition--la Biennale di Venezia titled "Kamikaze Loggia," curated by Joanna Warsza. Copublished by the Other Space Foundation and Casco--Office for Art, Design and Theory Contributors |