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Lars Lerup's conceptual explorations as a designer and thinker have
been inspired by philosophers and artists from Foucault to Beckett.
Lerup's furniture designs elude consumer culture. They conform
neither to what is commonly understood as useful nor to what is
typically regarded as necessary. They question the assumed
functions of furniture and, at the same time, their assigned place
in space. His pieces interrogate their roles and positions and
introduce a disturbing or at least disconcerting note to
conventional floor plans. This autobiography of a design project is
about rendering visible the consumerism that is driving the current
economically motivated expansion of our cities, and dealing with
the consequences for the environment and society.
Swedish-American architect Lars Lerup's writings suggest a mindful
collector as their author, rather than a scholar or a theoretician.
Lerup sharply observes and analyses his urban environment and its
properties, before adding his findings to his own theory of the
modern city. Lerup wrote the fourteen essays in this new book as
self-contained pieces, yet together they still form a coherent
entity. The fourteen essays in The Continuous City offer a survey
of Lerup's thinking on identity and monumentality are the
relationship between nature and culture. His interest and
reflections focus, among other things, on Roberto Burle Marx, a
founder of modern landscape design; the 'dancing floors' of Rem
Koolhaas's Seattle Central Library; Herzog & de Meuron's 1111
Lincoln Road project in Miami Beach; and the character of urban
icons like Coop Himmelb(l)au's Dalian International Conference
Center. Lars Lerup invites his readers to join him on his journey
and to be enriched, rather than instructed, en route.
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