Fantastic Architecture [Vostell Higgins]

[Art Book] [Fantastic Architecture] [Bureaucracy as Art]

Fantastic Architecture

Vostell Higgins

Primary Information, New York, 2015. First Primary Information Edition.

From the publisher

" Fantastic Architecture, making the book widely available for the first time since it was originally published: first in 1969 by Droste Verlag in German (with the title Pop Architektur) and later in 1970 by Something Else Press as Fantastic Architecture. Edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell, this artist’s book/anthology explores the boundaries between pop art and architecture through writings and projects by key artists and thinkers of the 1960s and earlier—from John Cage and Buckminster Fuller to Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Beuys.  It will retain the book’s unique design, specifically its Mylar inserts, which add unique depth and elaborate the publication’s content."

An awesome art book / anthology on architecture from a uniquely critical viewpoint. Beautiful layout, combining a brutalist design sensibility with forward thinking architectural critique. A fascinating, singular work.