Available somewhere in february from Thames&Hudson (or SUN Publishers in dutch):
„For over two decades, Belgian architect Vincent van Duysen has created a body of work that is at once sublime and rich, minimal yet tactile. This is the complete monograph of Van Duysens work, including his domestic architecture, office and commercial spaces, as well as furniture and decorative objects for such leading international manufacturers as B&B Italia, Poliform and Swarovski. Over thirty projects are presented in detail, each with a project profile, many accompanied by specially commissioned photographs taken by Alberto Piovano, along with a complete project chronology.Van Duysens architecture is for connoisseurs, and this comprehensive publication reveals to the full why he has become such a celebrated figure in international architecture and design.”
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This final volume of previously unpublished drawings and photographs completes the “Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopadia” trilogy. Danzig Baldaevs unparalleled ethnographic achievement, documenting over 3,000 tattoo drawings, was made during a lifetime working as a prison guard. The motifs depicted represent the uncensored lives of the criminal classes, ranging from violence and pornography to politics and alcohol. In this title, a medieval knight is surrounded by the severed heads of his enemies, a naked woman simultaneously services a man and two dwarfs, a crying President Gorbachev grips a human bone between sabre-like fangs, a group of angels drinks vodka with God on a cloud, and the meanings of these arresting images are explained to the uninitiated eye. Accompanied by graphic photographs showing the grim reality of the Russian prison system and some of the alarming characters that inhabit it, the illustrated criminals of Russia tell the tale of their closed society.
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Hatch by Kieran Long (2008, Laurence King)
141 opkomende architecten die volgens de schrijver de volgende 30 jaar zullen bepalen. En geen enkele belg natuurlijk.
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