Exquisite Corpse Writings on Buildings

Name: Exquisite Corpse Writings on Buildings
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ISBN: 9780860916871

ISBN-10: 0860916871

ISBN-13: 9780860916871

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Authors: Michael Sorkin

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‘Exquisite Corpse’ was a game played by the surrealists in which someone drew on a piece of paper, folded it and passed it to the next person to draw on until, finally, the sheet was opened to reveal a calculated yet random composition. In this entertaining and provocative book, Michael Sorkin suggests that cities are similarly assembled by many players acting with varying autonomy in a complicit framework. As unfolding terrain of invention, the city is also a means of accommodating disparity, of contextualizing sometimes startling juxtapositions.Sorkin’s aim is to widen the debate about the creation of buildings beyond the immediate issues of technology and design. He discusses the…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 8/17/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Michael Sorkin is principal of Michael Sorkin Studio & director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York.