The Monster Leviathan by Aaron Betsky - ISBN: 9780262546331
Paperback
Imagine strange architecture: monsters, anarchy, and visions for better worlds.

The Monster Leviathan

Anarchitecture

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    464 pages

  • Release Date

    6 February 2024

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Summary

Visionary proposals for a mythic and strange architecture-or anarchitecture-through which we can imagine other and better worlds.

Lurking under the surface of our modern world lies an unseen architecture-or anarchitecture. It is a possible architecture, an analogous architecture, an architecture of anarchy, which haunts in the form of monsters that are humans and machines and cities all at once; or takes the form of explosions, veils, queer, playful spaces, or visions from artwork and…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262546331
ISBN-10:0262546337
Author:Aaron Betsky
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:464
Release Date:6 February 2024
Weight:964g
Dimensions:241mm x 160mm x 33mm
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Critics Review

“[A] substantial instalment … hugely ambitious … this will be one of those books that follows the reader around.”
Apollo

About The Author

Aaron Betsky

Aaron Betsky is Professor in the School of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech. He has served as Dean and President of the School of Architecture at Taliesin (2015-2020), Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum (2006-2014) and the Netherlands Architecture Institute (2001-2006), as well as Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1995-2001). In 2008, he also directed the 11th Venice International Biennale of Architecture.

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