{"product_id":"a-field-measure-survey-of-american-architecture-jeffrey-ladd","title":"A Field Measure Survey of American Architecture, Jeffrey Ladd","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing from the nearly half a million photographs and documents comprising the Historic American Buildings Survey held in the US Library of Congress, this book constructs a fictional ‘one-way road trip’ across the United States, weaving north and south across the Mason-Dixon line while tacking west. In \u003cem\u003eA Field Measure Survey of American Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e, Jeffrey Ladd uses the HABS archive as a surrogate in order to manifest a portrait of his former country at a moment when its democracy seems imperilled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInspired equally by the social documentary work of Walker Evans and the architectural interventions of Gordon Matta-Clark and others, Ladd embraces the muteness of photographs to create an ambiguous space where the sculptural, political, forensic, and fictional coalesce within a landscape of both beauty and fragility. What initially appears to be a single voice is revealed to belong to dozens of makers; what seems a description of the distant past is revealed to be closer to the present than expected. \u003cem\u003eA Field Measure Survey\u003c\/em\u003e sheds light not only on this remarkable archive but on the proliferate meanings that can be shaped from its images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePublished by MACK Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSoftcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e368 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003e233 x 170 mm\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eISBN 9781913620417\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42310750404822,"sku":"AFMSOAAJL","price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/products\/AFMS_Cover.jpg?v=1641562330","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/es\/products\/a-field-measure-survey-of-american-architecture-jeffrey-ladd","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}