Paper Architecture

Paper Architecture
2017
offset printed booklet
24 pages, stapled binding
5.5”H x 9”W, closed

The offset-printed book followed an installation titled Paper Architecture that included a large-scale unique version of this book. ‘Paper architecture’ is a term that refers to proposed utopian projects not intended to be built. In this book, 2D and 3D space is conflated on the page. Photographs of buildings under construction wrapped in full-scale drawings of their facades are collaged with schematic drawings and letter forms in compact, layered spaces.

This version of Paper Architecture, was inserted into JAB 42 (Journal of Artists’ Books). Photography and design by Karen Wirth, and offset printed by Brad Freeman at the Center for Book, Paper & Print, Columbia College Chicago on the Heidelberg GTO.

Images from: Ayvalik Turkey, Amsterdam, Florence, Istanbul, New York City, Rome, San Diego, and Venice, Italy. Paper Architecture was originally an architectural installation that included a large-scale book.    

The book Paper Architecture is available through Printed Matter, NY.
See the installation Paper Architecture.

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