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Karl Lagerfeld Abstract Architecture

By Lagerfeld, Karl (1933-2019)

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Karl Lagerfeld Abstract Architecture

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This book is a sleek addition to Karl Lagerfeld's ongoing photographic exploration of architecture, as seen in such Steidl publications as Factory Constructivism, Ein deutsches Haus and Konkret Abstrakt Gesehen. In Abstract Architecture Lagerfeld presents black-and-white photographs of buildings by architects such as Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando. In a novel approach to book-making, Lagerfeld transforms his original prints into an elegant wordless story. By starkly enlarging, rotating and cropping images of architectural elements such as windows, structural beams and even unassembled concrete slabs, he reduces architecture to a series of curves, lines and planes that are seemingly divorced from the buildings of which they form part. (The cover image for example, a gestural sweep of black across gold, is actually a detail of a woman standing against a façade.) Abstract Architecture undoes our preconceptions of what architecture is, by showing that the built environments in which we work and play are a starting point for aesthetic discovery. Lagerfeld leaves us with a simple but important lesson: the harder we look, the more we see.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
96
Release Date:
2008-07-23
Publication Date:
2008-08-01
Publisher:
Steidl GmbH & Co.OHG
Languages:
Original: German
ISBN10:
3865218032
ISBN13:
9783865218032
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1001 g
Height:
200 cm
Width:
200 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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