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Conifer - Didcot, Oxfordshire - December 2017
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Conifer - Didcot, Oxfordshire - December 2017
Today"s #Da-Day, April 27, Salone National Day. #Subtopia#Alby: #16.00-20.00 & #22.00-03.00. WELCOME!! (på/i Subtopia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwvstOagX1f/?igshid=xgqzz74e36ib
Urban/rural transition in Barkingside
Aerial over the extremely suburban Gants Hill Roundabout, Essex
Tomorrow (21.2), from 17:00 and up to 21:00 - I am holding "contemporary circus" photo #vernissage in #Subtopia #stockholm! Come and enjoy the photos, wine and the people. There will be #Special improvisational act by @ron.beeri and @jonathanbondesson. See you there! #circus (at Subtopia)
In 1956, A sequel to ‘Outrage’, ‘Counter-attack against subtopia’ was published, showed how towns, villages and the countryside could be improved with good design.
Drawing, photography, plans, maps and typography combine to guide the reader. The maps and drawings allow the reader to orientate themselves and to “see” the bigger picture…
Cullen called this presentation, serialvision. It’s a series of views stitched together with maps and commentary…
There are pages of, for example, types of street furniture and signage. Nairn and Cullen had already recognised the tendency of this kind of material to stack up and to become part of the problem…rather than to be part the solution. This is a systemic consequence of a kind of thinking where everyone is adding, and nobody is looking at the whole.
In 1955, Ian Nairn wrote ‘Outrage’, a savage polemic against the despoiling of the built environment, illustrated by such offences as ‘wonky benches’, ‘scratchy planting’, ‘savagely pruned trees’, ‘sleazy wires’ and ‘Things in Fields’. He coined the term ‘subtopia’ to describe areas indistinguishable between town and country. A sequel, Counter-attack against subtopia, published the following year, showed how towns, villages and the countryside could be improved with good design.
Image: Montage of photographs of Lancashire for Ian Nairn's Outrage in the Architectural Review, 1955, from the Architectural Press Archive Photographers: Ian Nairn (1930-1983) and Bill Toomey (1922-) Credit: Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Library Photographs Collection
https://www.architecture.com/Explore/Revealingthecollections/OutrageLancashire1955.aspx
CROSSIE | The lady herself producing stencils in Subtopia, Stockholm during her Scarlett Gallery show visit.