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Architecture Words 3 – The Poetics of a Wall Projection
Jan Turnovsky
Architecture Words 6 – Projectiles
Bernard Cache
Architecture Words 7 – Modernity Unbound
Detlef Mertins
Architecture Words 8 – Tarzans in the Media Forest
Toyo Ito
Architecture Words 9 – Tectonic Acts Of Desire And Doubt
Mark Rakatansky
Archizines
Edited by Elias Redstone
As Hardly Found: Art and Tropical Architecture
Edited by Albert Brenchat-Aguilar
Auto-Destructive Art: Metzger at AA
Gustav Metzger
A World Adrift
Unknown Fields
Barkow Leibinger: Bricoleur Bricolage
Frank Barkow and Regine Leibinger
Bas Princen: The Construction of an Image
Edited by Vanessa Norwood
Beyond Entropy
Edited by Stefano Raboli Pansera
Cedric Price Works 1952–2003: A Forward-Minded Retrospective
Edited by Samantha Hardingham
Cine Arch 3 – Fact and Fiction
Edited by Rubens Azevedo and Julian Löffler
Cities From Zero
Edited by Shumon Basar
Civic City Cahier 1 – Social Movements in the (Post-) Neoliberal City
Margit Mayer
Civic City Cahier 2 – Design and Democracy
Gui Bonsiepe
Civic City Cahier 3 – Distributed Agency, Design's Potentiality
Tom Holert
Civic City Cahier 4 – Afterlives of Neoliberalism
Neil Brenner, Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore
Civic City Cahier 5 – Designing the Post-Political City and the Insurgent Polis
Erik Swyngedouw
Civic City Cahier 6 – Design In and Against the Neoliberal City
Jesko Fezer
Colquhounery: Alan Colquhoun, from Bricolage to Myth
Edited by Irina Davidovici
Concerning...Land
Edited by Ingrid Schroder and Emily Priest
Didier Fiuza Faustino: Misarchitectures
Dogma: 11 Projects
Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara
Do You Remember How Perfect Everything Was? The Work of Zoe Zenghelis
Hamed Khosravi
DRL Ten: A Design Research Compendium
Edited by Tom Verebes
Enabling – The Work of Minimaforms
Theodore and Stephen Spyropoulos
Exhibition Prosthetics
Joseph Grigely
Fieldwork, The Complete Reader
Ryan Gander

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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AA Agendas – London +10
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