New books from Wrights & Sites

by | Mar 27, 2018 | Books, Essays & other writing | 0 comments

from Michelle Smith…

Wrights & Sites are four artist-researchers with a special relationship to site, city, landscape & walking. You probably know their Exeter Mis-Guide and A Mis-Guide To Anywhere.

Now they (Cathy Turner, Stephen Hodge, Simon Persighetti & Phil Smith) have taken another step with The Architect-Walker – their new anti-manifesto for changing a world while exploring it.
The Architect-Walker acknowledges the more active role we can all take as we walk in urban, littoral or marginal landscapes. It reinvents the walker as architect-walker and offers tools and tactics for the engaged urban walker, a philosophy of ambulant architecture and countless examples of ways in which the authors and others are already practising architect-walking.
Try bricklaying with daydreams, creative demolition, map hallucinatory post-truth urban landscapes, build something, however small, that is not allowed, crawl more, find empty niches waiting to be filled with memorials to unacknowledged women, submit a planning application to move a major building 10cm…

The Architect-Walker is published at £20 on 1st June, but you can get it now with a prepublication 20% discount direct from the publisher only.

 

 

[While you’re here, if you haven’t seen Phil Smith’s new book Rethinking Mythogeography  or Ernesto Pujol’s Walking Art Practice – a collection of intimate reflections which bring together his experiences as a monk,  performance artist, social choreographer and educator – they’re also available from Triarchy now with the same direct ordering discount. Just enter the promotion code tpdirect at checkout.]

These and 10 other important titles on and about radical walking are all featured on our walking page: www.triarchypress.net/walking

 

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