Shop > Artists' Books

Out of Stock
#05576

Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

Artist
Lisa Robertson
Date
2010
Format
Artists' Books
Details
Softcover
ISBN
978-1552452325
Size
11.5 × 17 × 1.5 cm
Length
240 
Description

What if there is no ‘space,’ only a permanent, slow-motion mystic takeover, an implausibly careening awning? Nothing is utopian. Everything wants to be. Soft Architects face the reaching middle.

If architecture is the language of concrete and steel, then Soft Architecture needs a vocabulary of flesh, air, fabric and colour. It’s about civic surface and natural history. It’s about social space and clothing and urban geography and visual art, and some intersection of all these.

This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson, the ambulatory Office for Soft Architecture. There are essays on the syntax of the suburban home, Vancouver fountains, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, scaffolding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry. There are also seven Walks, tours of Vancouver sites – poetic dioramas, really, and more material than cement could ever be.

Soft Architecture exists at the crossroads of poetry, theory, urban geography and cultural criticism, some place where the quotidian and the metaphysical marry and invert. And it makes for one of the most intriguing books you’ll ever read.

Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture was originally published by Clear Cut Press in 2004. This revised edition features a foreword and new material.

  1. Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Archite
 

Related Items

  1. Lisa Robertson: Cinema of the Present
  2. Kay Higgins, Myfanwy MacLeod, and Lisa Robertson: The Undesirables
  3. Lisa Robertson: Cinema of the Present Poster Set
  4. Michael Benjamin Brown: Winterhouses
  5. Jessica Vaughn: Depreciating Assets
  6. Jean-Pascal Flavien: Forgotten times and moments
  7. Christophe Boutin: Holy Trip
  8. Jason McLean: ’On the ropes’ , 2010
  9. Stephen Wetzel: [PAUSE]
  10. Stephen Wetzel: Occasional Performances and Wayward Writings
  11. Archizines Catalogue
  12. Jennifer Doyle: Campus Security
  13. Andrew Zealley: FAGGOTS: a PSBEUYS workbook
  14. Jeremy Jams: Facing Fictitious Fiction
  15. Yevgenia Belorusets: In the Face of War: Ukraine 2022
  16. Rohan Hutchinson: Elemental
  17. Wheels and Trophies
  18. Els Vander Meersch: implants
  19. Terry Plummer: Hell Passport #6
  20. Common
  21. Nadia Myre: En[counter]s
  22. Dan Graham: Nuggets: New and Old Writing on Art, Architecture, and Culture
  23. Lisa Klapstock: Somewhere
  24. Susan Qu: The Refrigerators
  25. Jeff Ladouceur: Schmo
  26. John Orentlicher and Lisa Steele: Activating the Archive 3: Finding the DIFFEREN(t)CE
  27. Petrit Halilaj
  28. Hanna Hur: Get Well Soon
  29. Alexander Pilis: Architecture: Parallaxe
  30. Claes Oldenburg: Raw Notes
  31. Mark von Schlegell: Ickles, Etc.
  32. The Bells
  33. Aaron Flint Jamison: Cascades
  34. Trix + Robert Haussmann