Urban toys
By: Nadim Karam ; edited by Kaya Mussack and Atelier Hapsitus
Contributors: Mussack, Kaya; Atelier Hapsitus
Publisher: Booth-Clibborn
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781861542915
Subjects: Karam, Nadim, -- 1957-; Atelier Hapsitus; Public art; Public spaces -- Design
Description: "We can't tell where the game begins - its toys - and where the drama ends - the metropolitical tragedy. Therein lies the paradox of urban art, the paradoxical aesthetic between the panic and the circus games. Mockery, childishness or neo-terrorism, no work of architecture lends itself to laughter, contrary to sculpture it can frighten, seriously disturb, or sometimes even raise a smile, but joy is never part of the edifice. Just what will become of our cities, these concentrations of real estate inertia?"--Jacket.