Becoming: Stories of Place & Time
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- Becoming: Stories of Time & Place, $95.00AUD
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- Publisher: Uro Publications, ISBN: 9781922601469, Authors: James Grose, Andrew Mackenzie and Melanie Mury, Contributors: Archie Moore, Esther Anatolitis, Kevin O'Brien, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Jaimee Edwards and Les Murray, Format: Hardback, 21 × 30 cm, 600 pp To the generations of BVN architects and designers upon whose efforts this work exists to explore, thank you.
We arrived at the title early. Becoming. A word that prompted us to question how a collection of images and words might provide an alternative to the conventional monograph. It was imagined in the spirit of a novel rather than a fan deck of buildings, revealing architecture as it is lived.
BVN, Becoming: Stories of Time and Place is a modest attempt to realign what matters when we talk about architecture. A reflection on selected works, it is a book about people, place and the slow accumulation of belonging. Buildings are understood not as fixed objects but as dynamic entities constantly transforming, becoming embedded in the rhythms of daily life.
Essays by Archie Moore, Esther Anatolitis, James Grose, Andrew Mackenzie and Kevin O’Brien are woven together with poems by Agatha Gothe-Snape and Jaimee Edwards, plus Les Murray’s landmark 1984 poem, ’Louvres’. Feature photography by Agnieszka Chabros and Banjo McLachlan captures fleeting moments within BVN’s buildings — chance, circumstance, and the passing of the day, while scent-smith Ainslie Walker’s commissioned fragrance imbues select pages with the olfactory memory of Country.
