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Catalogue

Catalogue

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Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Hugo Palmarola
Reyner Banham: A Set of Actual Tracks
Edited by Ludovico Centis
Concerning...Land
Edited by Ingrid Schroder and Emily Priest
In Progress: The IID Summer Sessions
Edited by Irene Sunwoo
Colquhounery: Alan Colquhoun, from Bricolage to Myth
Edited by Irina Davidovici
Architecture on Display: On the History of the Venice Biennale of Architecture
Aaron Levy and William Menking
Treasured Island
Unknown Fields
Bas Princen: The Construction of an Image
Edited by Vanessa Norwood
Architecture Words 13 – Flash in the Pan
Sylvia Lavin
Sharp Words: Selected Essays of Dennis Sharp
Edited by Paul Finch
Adaptive Ecologies
Edited by Theodore Spyropoulos
Civic City Cahier 2 – Design and Democracy
Gui Bonsiepe
Ludwig Leo: Ausschnitt
20/20: Editorial Takes on Architectural Discourse
Edited by Kirk Wooller
AA Agendas – Making Pavilions
Edited by Martin Self and Charles Walker
Civic City Cahier 3 – Distributed Agency, Design's Potentiality
Tom Holert
Pandemic Objects
Edited by Brendan Cormier
A World Adrift
Unknown Fields
Didier Fiuza Faustino: Misarchitectures
Fieldwork, The Complete Reader
Ryan Gander
Barkow Leibinger: Bricoleur Bricolage
Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger
Auto-Destructive Art: Metzger at AA
Gustav Metzger
AA Book 2021
Edited by Ryan Dillon
Practice of Place
Emma Smith
Inventory Arousal
James Hoff and Danny Snelson
Sub-urbanism and the Art of Memory
Sébastien Marot
Never Never Lands
Unknown Fields
Nightswimming: Discotheques from the 1960s to the Present
Giovanna Silva
Stefan Sebok 1901–1941: In Search of a Forgotten Architect
Lilly Dubowitz
Venice Takeaway: Ideas to Change British Architecture

The Breastmilk of the Volcano

The Breastmilk of the Volcano

The Breastmilk of the Volcano

Unknown Fields

AA Publications

Unknown Fields is a nomadic design studio that ventures out on expeditions into the shadows cast by the contemporary city, to uncover the industrial ecologies and precarious wilderness it has brought into being. Tales from the Dark Side of the City is a series that forms an atlas to the territories and stories of a city that stretches across the entire planet. Sitting between documentary and fiction, this is a city of dislocated sites, of drone footage and hidden-camera investigations, of interviews and speculative narratives, of toxic objects and distributed matter from distant grounds. These books are a collection of tales from the constellation of elsewheres that are conjured into being by the city’s wants and needs, fears and dreams.

Over half of the world’s reserves of lithium – a key ingredient in batteries – lie under the ethereal inverted skies of the Salar De Uyuni in Bolivia. If the future is electric then the future is here, lying in wait for the world. For The Breastmilk of the Volcano Unknown Fields chase the grey rush across the shimmering white expanse of this ancient salt flat which, according to Indigenous narrative, was created from the breastmilk of a weeping volcano. This book is an account of a contemporary creation story for our energy, from the Big Bang to the battery, from the birth of lithium at the beginning of the universe to the low power warning flashing on our screens.

9781907896842, 2016
24 × 17cm, illustrated, 64pp, paperback

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