British GQ - 09.2019

DETAILS ARCHITECTURE

SK ATE CITIES

Skateboarding was born in California, a product

of Seventies surfer culture, and the region is thus

peppered with skateparks. A new book of photography by Amir Zaki, featuring an

essay by Tony Hawk, treats them as landscapes and finds the poetry in the concrete.

PICTURED: THE LINDA VISTA SKATEPARK, SAN DIEGO. CALIFORNIA CONCRETE: A LANDSCAPE OF SKATEPARKS BY AMIR ZAKI (MERRELL, £35) IS OUT ON 5 SEPTEMBER.

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