书名：签名版丨Jeffrey Ladd：A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture / 杰弗里·拉德：美国建筑的实地测量调查
定价：340.0
ISBN：9781913620417
作者：Jeffrey Ladd
版次：1
出版时间：2021-09

内容提要：

题 目：签名版丨Jeffrey Ladd：A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture / 杰弗里·拉德：美国建筑的实地测量调查

作 者：Jeffrey Ladd

出 版：Mack ，2021

装 帧：平装，368页

尺 寸：17*23.3 cm

 

 

Drawing from the nearly half a million photographs and documents comprising the Historic American Buildings Survey held in the US Library of Congress, this book constructs a fictional ‘one-way road trip’ across the United States, weaving north and south across the Mason-Dixon line while tacking west. In A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture, Jeffrey Ladd uses the HABS archive as a surrogate in order to manifest a portrait of his former country at a moment when its democracy seems imperiled.

 

Inspired equally by the social documentary work of Walker Evans and the architectural interventions of Gordon Matta-Clark and others, Ladd embraces the muteness of photographs to create an ambiguous space where the sculptural, political, forensic, and fictional coalesce within a landscape of both beauty and fragility. What initially appears to be a single voice is revealed to belong to dozens of makers; what seems a description of the distant past is revealed to be closer to the present than expected. A Field Measure Survey sheds light not only on this remarkable archive but on the proliferate meanings that can be shaped from its images.