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ABSTRACT ARCHITECTURE - KARL LAGERFELD KARTONIE...

This book is a sleek addition to Karl Lagerfeld's ongoing photographic exploration of
architecture  as seen in such Steidl publications as Factory Constructivism  Ein deutsches Haus
and Konkret Abstrakt Gesehen. In Abstract Architecture Lagerfeld presents black-and-white
photographs of buildings by architects such as Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando. In a novel approach
to book-making  Lagerfeld transforms his original prints into an elegant wordless story. By
starkly enlarging  rotating and cropping images of architectural elements such as windows 
structural beams and even unassembled concrete slabs  he reduces architecture to a series of
curves  lines and planes that are seemingly divorced from the buildings of which they form
part. (The cover image for example  a gestural sweep of black across gold  is actually a detail
of a woman standing against a façade.) Abstract Architecture undoes our preconceptions of what
architecture is  by showing that the built environments in which we work and play are a
starting point for aesthetic discovery. Lagerfeld leaves us with a simple but important lesson:
the harder we look  the more we see.

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