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Morar Olimpiadas

 

In Morar Olimpíadas Giles Price scans the field of rapid urban transformation in Rio de Janeiro as the city prepares to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. With vivid precision, he captures the colossal processes demanded of an Olympic host city—the scratching, scraping, and sculpting of the metropolitan terrain in the name of the five-ring spectacle.

From an altitude of 1,500 feet, Price offers us geographical landscapes laced with geopolitical import. He deftly accentuates the inequalities that all too often Olympic development either exacerbates or breathes into being. These processes typically transpire behind tall walls, blockades, and barriers. As such, they are difficult, if not impossible, to appreciate, let alone access, from the ground level. We owe Price gratitude for gifting us with fresh perspective, for affording us a glimpse of the privatised enclaves of the future, for stoking a vital discussion about privilege, priorities, and power. “Once spatial injustice is inscribed into the built environment,” notes critical geographer Edward Soja, “it is difficult to erase.” In Morar Olimpíadas, Price helps stave off that near-indelible inscription.

A visual poetics of dirt-and-dust materiality flickers through this collection. The photographs insist we remember that the Olympics have a whole lot to do with real estate. The book raises a key question: for whom does Olympic development boom?

Introduction by Jules Boykoff

 

AUTHOR: GILES PRICE
HARDCOVER: 72 PAGES, 31 COLOUR IMAGES
DIMENSIONS: 320MM X 245MM LANDSCAPE
PUBLISHER: SEESTUDIO
ISBN: 978-0-9573621-1-6
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH & PORTUGUESE
EDITIONS: 100

 

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For anyone traveling to Rio de Janeiro next summer, or for those who want to know more about Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and Brazilian architecture; The following books are worth reading. (read also part 1 and part 2)

Roberto Burle Marx – Brazilian Modernist
Jens Hoffmann and Claudia J. Nahson

The modernist parks and gardens of Brazilian landscape architect and garden designer Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) earned him awards, widespread acclaim, and international fame. Over a 60-year career, he designed more than 2,000 gardens worldwide, the most famous of which are those he created in collaboration with the architect Oscar Niemeyer for Brasília. Although he is best known for his landscape work, Burle Marx was a prolific artist in a variety of media, and his larger body of work—which includes paintings, drawings, tile mosaics, sculpture, textile design, jewelry, theater costumes, and more—is critical to understanding his importance as a modernist. An avid horticulturalist, he was among the first to denounce deforestation in the Amazon region; he also discovered over thirty species of Brazilian flora, which bear his name.

This beautifully illustrated and groundbreaking publication covers the full range of Burle Marx’s artistic output, as well as his remarkable home, an abandoned estate that he transformed into his office, workshop, gallery, and living space. The enduring influence of Burle Marx’s work is also explored through interviews with seven contemporary artists: Juan Araujo, Paloma Bosquê, Dominique González-Foerster, Luisa Lambri, Arto Lindsay, Nick Mauss, and Beatriz Milhazes. These artists exemplify the extent to which his work continues to be a source of inspiration.
Jens Hoffmann is deputy director of exhibitions and public programs and Claudia J. Nahson is the Morris and Eva Feld Curator, both at the Jewish Museum, New York.

May 3, 2016
224 pages, 9 1/2 x 10 1/4
185 color + 20 b/w illus.
ISBN: 9780300212150
Hardcover: $50.00

Published in association with the Jewish Museum, New York

 

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