Monstera deliciosa
By: Nico Joana Weber ; Texte/texts: Karin Harrasser, Nico Joana Weber
Contributors: Harrasser, Karin, writer of added commentary
Publisher: Grass Publishers
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Brauweiler
Language: gla
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9783946848035
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Architectural photography; Tropical Architecture; Pictorial works; Urban plants
Description: This artist's book by Nico Joana Weber mounts an insightful and calculated photographic investigation into the dichotomy of rational (European) modernism in architecture versus the "irrational" proliferation of nature in tropical regions. Citing a range of historical and cultural references, from Le Corbusier's visits to Argentina and Niemeyer's Brazilian modernism, to the Amazonian expeditions of Lévi-Strauss, her vast collection of images points to how the fragile balance between architecture, the body, and vegetation inherent to the tropics shifts the separation between nature and culture so crucial to the Western perspective into the realm of the impossible.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

In German and English.