{"product_id":"a-field-measure-survey-of-american-architecture-jeffrey-ladd","title":"A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture - Jeffrey Ladd","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eDrawing from the nearly half a million photographs and documents comprising the Historic American Buildings Survey held in the US Library of Congress, this book constructs a fictional ‘one-way road trip’ across the United States, weaving north and south across the Mason-Dixon line while tacking west. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Field Measure Survey of American Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e, Jeffrey Ladd uses the HABS archive as a surrogate in order to manifest a portrait of his former country at a moment when its democracy seems imperiled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired equally by the social documentary work of Walker Evans and the architectural interventions of Gordon Matta-Clark and others, Ladd embraces the muteness of photographs to create an ambiguous space where the sculptural, political, forensic, and fictional coalesce within a landscape of both beauty and fragility. What initially appears to be a single voice is revealed to belong to dozens of makers; what seems a description of the distant past is revealed to be closer to the present than expected.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Field Measure Survey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esheds light not only on this remarkable archive but on the proliferate meanings that can be shaped from its images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#ff2a00\"\u003ePaperback with buckram cover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e23.32 x 17 cm, 368 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN \u003cbr\u003eSeptember 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACKBOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42135330717920,"sku":"","price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0345\/2121\/9205\/products\/cover595_860x_a51589c0-612d-4147-a23c-a07bf9293f60.jpg?v=1642032942","url":"https:\/\/todomodo.live\/en\/products\/a-field-measure-survey-of-american-architecture-jeffrey-ladd","provider":"Todo Modo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}