Addresses two innovative areas of contemporary architecture and design: repressive urban architecture and design (i.e. surface studs, crowd control barriers etc) and the vernacular architecture of protest culture (i.e. makeshift, low impact architectural structures such as tree houses and earth bunkers).
"The contemporary picturesque is one of four publications commissioned and edited by Stefan Kalmár for access/excess as part of Open House/Book Works Projects 1998-2001."--Colophon. Published in an ed. of 1,000. Condition: library markings. Includes bibliographical references.
