1) Hans Ulrich Obrst, Olafur Eliasson, "The Conversation Series #13", Verlag der Buchhandlung, Walter Konig, Koln 2008
A very simple and influential book that helped me found myself again.
2) Phillip Shaw, "The Sublime", London, New York, Routledge 2006
Verbalizing and conceptualizing of the spatial experience, to what extent is that reasonable as language becomes another universe separate from physical reality.
3) Ronan McDonald, "The Death of the Critic", Continuum London and New York, 2007
After the frustration with cinema criticism class I embraced the idea of the dead critics. The book however triggered better thoughts as the value of critical thinking and how blogging or looking at what is liked leads to unification and lack of diversity.
4) Julian Stallabrass, "Art Incorporated", Oxford University Press, 2004
A good and refreshing book about art, reminding me of topics often silenced by institutions. It talks how art functions culturally and financially, but mostly the later.
5) Kelly Shannon and Marcel Smets, "The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure", NAi Publishers 2010
Infrastructure is one of my main topics as it shifts spatio-temporal relationships with the landscape. Who benefits and who suffers from these modifications to the personal experience of space? Who is making decisions for the others and with what motivation.
6) Groninger Museum, "P. Struycken", NAi Publishers, 2007
Architect and interior designer, valuable with making generic spaces open for interpretation. To what extent is possible to create a space that is structured and in the same time customizable by people's needs and tastes?
7) Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman, "Catherine Opie: American Photographer", Guggenheim Museum Publications 2008
My work was called American landscape photography and decided to look at another photographer who is branded in this way.
Quotes:
1) "Since my work is very much about the process of seeing and experiencing yourself rather than the actual work of art, it's problematic when your way of seeing is formalized through institutional structures - rather than your being encouraged to question your perceptual set-up."
Hans Ulrich Obrst, Olafur Eliasson, "The Conversation Series #13", Verlag der Buchhandlung, Walter Konig, Koln 2008, p16
2) "We need to understand that there are many different kinds of museums, but they ll have to allow people to look through them, to see the underlying institutional structure, and to understand that this is not a house of truth, but a constructed way of presenting history and reality to people." ibid, p 77
3) "The Alps and their location in the center of Europe is that they have almost become another theme park. The mountains have been industrialized or colonized into something no longer about spatial questions but about mediated relationships... They remain experiential, you can still experience the Alps, but you carry an image, a predetermined knowledge of what you are doing there." ibid. 113
4) "We tend to forget that we spend a large portion of our lives in vehicles... What does it mean to experience our surroundings through a glass plate that is perhaps ... like a shop window in terms of isolating the space?" ibid, p. 153
5) "By putting up a glass and isolating people's tactile relationship to the outside, our overall relationship to the outside changes - the sensation becomes more representational... I would argue that there is a proportional relationship between how many senses are engaged and the level of representation. " ibid, p 23
6) "The scenes that illustrate this book are all about us. For illustration, please look closely at real cities. While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see. " Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, New York, Random House, 1961
7) "A very curious effect results from this benignly subversive approach: we may end up looking at one place or activity through a lens we normally reserve for evaluating another... it undermines our assumptions in a very generous manner, encouraging us to look at things from more than one perspective and alerting us to other ways of understanding that can renew our interest in the larger landscape." Matthew Coolidge and Sarah Simons, "Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the Center for Land Use Interpretation", Metropolis Books, 2006, p. 37-38
8) "This book might serve as an introduction to the Center for Land Use interpretation. But it's my hope that, after reading it, you forget about us. You can even forget the information about the cites we describe in this volume... In fact, you can even forget the very point that is being made right now. What matters is that after reading this book, or after encountering any of our programming elsewhere, you come away with a widened sense of awareness of the physical world that surrounds you." Matthew Coolidge and Sarah Simons, "Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the Center for Land Use Interpretation", Metropolis Books, 2006, p. 15
9) "There are two ways of organizing social space. The first aims at a single predetermined objective. It is authoritarian, rational, and reductive. It corresponds to the desire to control events and people on the part of those whose task is to conceive, organize, and produce.. Some people like this. It corresponds to a wish to manipulate and be manipulated. The other way of making social space... is a living process which imparts only key centers of activity in a clear spatial configuration and with an intensity of form and meaning that favors and expresses what we believe essential: living relationships and activities that spring from diversity unexpected initiatives, and above all, that something in social man that leads to the creation of community." Lucien Kroll, "Anarchitecture", in the Scope of Social Architecture , R. Hatch, ed. (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984), 167-9
10) "Construction finds its meaning only in the social relations that it supports." ibid, p. 167
11) "In Lefevbre's thinking, these attempts to speak for the users were bound to fail "because no one has the right for those directly concerned here. The entitlement to do so, the concepts to do so, the language to do so are simply lacking. How would the disourse of such an experiment differ from that of architects, developers or politicians?"" Lefebvre, "Productions of Space", p. 364
12) "The development is best known, however, not for Le Corbusier's architectural vision, but for the modifications that residents have made to their buildings over time. Occupied, the structures bear little resemblance to the blueprints as residents have added decorative elements that many architects would claim undermine the purity of the original design." Richard Milgrom, "Lucien Kroll: Design, Difference, Everyday Life" (Space, Difference, Everyday Life. Reading Henri Lefebvre, Routledge, New york and London, 2008) p 275
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