A project by Aglaia Konrad, with text by Jelena Pančevac (CCA, 2024)
Aglaia Konrad’s work often takes the form of a book, each conceived as an edited archive of the ways in which she uses photography to investigate urban landscapes. Two of her book projects were part of The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project, the project curated by Stefano Graziani and Bas Princen, and it was while putting this exhibition together that Konrad shared her enthusiasm after researching the work of five women that conceived several residential neighbourhoods in Warsaw after the Second World War and redefined the city as a green haven. If the two book projects she presented in our exhibition—Atlas (2000) and Copy Cities (2003–2004)—brought together multiple fragments of her extensive and systematic documentary work on cities, her survey of the work of Alina Scholtz, Barbara Brukalska, Halina Skibniewska, Helena Syrkus, and Zofia Hansen leads now to a travel diary that reflects on the role of architecture and landscape architecture in defining places of bonding and belonging.
Editing by Zaven Titizian
Design by NORM, Zurich
Printed by Druckerei zu Altenburg (DZA)
15.4 x 23.1 cm, 64 pages
Is there a known optimum gate size for the dual control of cattle and sheep?
Sofia Nannini (CCA, 2025)
Sofia Nannini discusses a small but representative collection of files within the Cedric Price fonds: the proposal for a light and reconfigurable livestock pen to clean and weigh cattle and sheep that he called Westpen. The design concept was largely driven by the movement of the animals and the flexibility of the program, suggesting that the pen could become a bucolic family picnic area when not used for the animals, simply by removing the gates that control them. Nannini, a 2023 Research Fellow, focuses precisely on this question of control of the non-human: in the context of Price’s interest in impermanence and the creative potential of human interaction and individual free will, Nannini exposes architecture’s responsibility in perpetuating the assumed dominion of our species over others.
Editing by Zaven Titizian
Design by NORM, Zurich
Printed by Druckerei zu Altenburg (DZA)
20 x 30 cm, 64 pages
15.4 x 23.1 cm, 64 pages