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Books

Open Borders, edited by Reece

Jones, presents 17 essays against

reactionary nationalism by

anthropologists, geographers,

activists, international relations

experts exploring the advantages

and benefits of open borders in a

world without frontiers.

http://www.ugapress.org

With non-conventional strategies

(crowdfunding) and radical methods

(“permanent temporary”: an open

worksite to test new ideas), ZUS

(Zones Urbaines Sensibles) has

pinpointed a method reconsidering

cities, beyond market crises. City of

Permanent Temporality is the diary

of 18 years of urban activism in a

city in constant transformation.

http://www.nai010.com

After years of research, the book

by Beatriz Colomina, X-Ray

Architecture, explores the

impact of medical theories and

diagnostic technologies on the

training, representation and

reception of modern architecture.

In particular, it shows how early

20th-century architecture was

shaped by the prevailing obsession

of its time: tuberculosis and its

key diagnostic tool, x-rays.

http://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com

Set in the stone landscape of the

Spas of Vals, Attrazione, Lucas

Harari’s first graphic novel, pays

tribute to architecture. Few cold

colours and a refined style are enough

for the Parisian writer to render

mysterious the famous building

made in the 1990s by Peter Zumthor.

http://www.fandangoeditore.it

Comics mystery at the Spas of Vals

ZUS: Rotterdam as a laboratory

Modern and X-rays

The North’s norths

As the geographer Louis-

Edmond Hamelin writes,

“There are many Norths in

this North”. But there are even

more dramatic changes (local

interests, resources, trade)

that have recently uapset

the balance of the Canadian

Arctic. With drawings,

maps, timelines, essays and

interviews, Lateral Office’s

book explores the spatial

practices used in negotiation.

http://www.actar.com

Against borders

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