Inversion Reflection
Turning Balfron Tower Inside Out
by Rab Harling
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About the Book
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Architecture
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 116 -
Isbn
- Hardcover, ImageWrap: 9781320016841
- Publish Date: Dec 31, 2012
- Language English
- Keywords post-war architecture, english heritage, short-life housing, gentrification, decant, goldfinger, architecture, balfron, tower, rab, harling, photography, london, brutalism, brutalist, interiors, landcsapes, modernist
About the Creator
Rab Harling is a London-based conceptual artist who specialises in experimental, large-format photography and sculptural installations. His practice investigates the social occupation of space, from the urban landscape to domestic interiors, focusing on how people construct a sense of place, and how the design of built environments reflect and actively produce particular social configurations and political ideologies. His installations deconstruct and reassemble pre-conceived ideas about space, they are often site-specific and usually include a philosophical dimensionality, using influences ranging from mathematical philosophy to quantum mechanics. Rab’s work intersects with a long-term debate in urban culture and policy regarding the relationships between environment and behaviour, particularly in the context of the current housing crisis in the United Kingdom, with a particular focus on the effects of gentrification on the vulnerable, and in particular with the socially excluded...