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Ecologies of the Past is an intellectual history examining questions of environmental justice, social and political imagination, and critical heritage emerging from the singular labors of Sri Lankan art historian Anil de Silva-Vigier (1909-1996) and architect Minnette de Silva (1918-1998), two cultural figures who, together, consolidated ecological knowledge and structured the writing of global histories of the constructed environment. Their centering of Asian landscapes, heritage ecologies, and ecologically-rooted crafts staged a field-defining epistemic intervention, which fueled pan-Asian and Afro-Asian architectural, arts, and cultural practice and discourse. This book draws from unique archival access and work with craftspersons cultivating intergenerational knowledge and skill, based on primary research in Sri Lanka, India, Hong Kong, Greece, France, England, Canada, and the United States.
Architecture of Migration (Duke University Press) analyzes the history, visual rhetoric, and spatial politics of the Dadaab refugee camps in Northeastern Kenya. Drawing from archival, ethnographic, and visual research in East Africa, South Asia, and Europe, it moves beyond ahistorical representations of camps and their inhabitants, finding long migratory and colonial traditions in the architecture, spatial practices, material culture, and iconography of refugees and humanitarians. Dadaab is an object lesson in the paradoxical settlement wrought by emergency environments, and offers an epistemological vantage point in African and Muslim worlds.
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Minnette De Silva: Intersections
(Mack Books) is an art book on one of the first women in the world to establish an architectural practice as sole principal. Written for students, the book features many of her projects and draws from material in rare archives, including reprints from her pictorial memoir, examining significant aspects of her practice.
The L!brary Book (Princeton Architectural Press)
is a design book on an award-winning New York City arts and design initiative to populate the five boroughs with inspiring public school libraries filled with meaningful children’s literature collections. The book, designed by Pentagram, features work by dozens of architects and artists based in New York, as well as a guide for planning libraries.
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