Designing Place
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Designing Place is a beautifully produced book that brings together some of Australia's foremost artists and intellectuals in a project that investigates the meaning of 'place' by focusing on the Western District of Victoria. It is a book that has been supported by the RMIT Design Research Institute. The book incorporates: * The artworks that comprise the Stony Rises Project (the title referring to landscape formations in the Western District) in which 10 artists give their interpretations of the region. This is a project that culminates in a touring exhibition to regional Victorian galleries. * Essays by leading design theorists, cultural historians, a geologist and an anthropologist. * A photographic chapter of 117 significant homesteads of the Western District.
Author: Edquist Harriet Byrne Lisa
Format: Paperback, 160 pages, 280mm x 180mm
Published: 2010, Melbourne Books, Australia
Genre: Architecture
Description
Designing Place is a beautifully produced book that brings together some of Australia's foremost artists and intellectuals in a project that investigates the meaning of 'place' by focusing on the Western District of Victoria. It is a book that has been supported by the RMIT Design Research Institute. The book incorporates: * The artworks that comprise the Stony Rises Project (the title referring to landscape formations in the Western District) in which 10 artists give their interpretations of the region. This is a project that culminates in a touring exhibition to regional Victorian galleries. * Essays by leading design theorists, cultural historians, a geologist and an anthropologist. * A photographic chapter of 117 significant homesteads of the Western District.
Designing Place
$40.00