Herbert Stattler - Ornament Stadt monokultur Bethlehem and Jenin

Bethlehem and Jenin

Another astute piece of publishing by Spector Books (Leipzig)

Its goal is to uncover the extensive potentialities of the house and the private sphere therein through a rethinking of accepted social practice and revolutionary new approaches

It forms a detailed and informative guide to discovering autonomous

Published by AA London (London)

Herbert Stattler - Ornament Stadt monokultur Bethlehem and JeninIn his book Ornament Stadt [Ornament City], the Austrian artist Herbert Stattler transferred 16 designs of ideal cities into precise pencil drawings. Urban utopias from the Renaissance to the 20th century are reproduced by Stattler again and again, until the ideal city is multiplied into an ornament: fans and concentric circles, repeating bubbles and dispersing stars. In the detail, however, in the movement of the pencil that repeats the original,