Architecture and Surrealism - Neil Spiller

Architecture and Surrealism by Neil Spiller / ISBN 9780500343203 / 256-page hardcover with 250+ illustrations, 9.4 x 11.4 inches, from Thames & Hudson / Discounted copies but like new *** A pioneering major survey on the rich relationship between the imagery and concepts of Surrealist art and the architecture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries In a world where “smart” objects can talk to each other and a gun can be printed with a desktop 3D printer, the conditions for contemporary design are nothing if not surreal. The long-standing interaction between architecture and Surrealism is being reinvigorated by the new technology that makes the protocols and concepts of otherworldly Surrealism more relevant to architects than the dogmas of architectural modernism. This book charts the development of this fertile relationship, revealing how Surrealist ideas are being put to use by contemporary architects in extraordinary ways. Architecture and Surrealism opens with an introduct