Semiotext(e) Architecture

by Hrazten Zeitlian, Hraztan Zeitlian, Hrazten Zeitlian

This three-foot, in-your-face, on-your-lap monster belongs on every five-foot shelf. Feisty and defiant designs. Complex texts struggling with architectures intended to drag you into a visual and conceptual maelstrom. Brian Boigon, Atom Egoyan, Felix Guattari, Arthur Kroker, Catherine Ingraham, and others, in a volume too big to open in most city apartments.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

it’s a really sexy art book. it’s also extremely difficult to discern what the words are with the funky graphics behind the words. I really liked it, but all of the very interesting articles are mostly ornamental and impossible to read. Given the opportunity to read a text only version of this would be cool

[Kathleen · Rating 2 out of 5]

this book seemed to be about space more than architecture. i get that it was intentionally designed to have text all over the place, overlapping, covered with images in some places. however, i don't know what the point of that was, other than to look cool. i vastly prefer books where the words are legible to books that do nothing more than look cool.
i didn't learn anything from this book, but i wanted to.