" If we could suddenly see this arranged order as it will be seen in its full functioning, it is not to be doubted that many of the Civilized would be struck dead by the violence of their ecstasy. " PIG CITY MODEL FARM is a strange, amusing and disturbing book about architecture, agriculture, and utopia. About instrumental thinking and rational method versus irony and doubt as anti-method. About copronomy and building design, model farms, country-life, class status in the Chinese countryside, Ultra-Sweet Pignectar, an architect s first sexual experience, Charles Fourier, Marcel Duchamp, paranoia, poisonous fruit, and how things become their opposite. Treyf 25th Anniversary edition. "treyf, adj. Yiddish] - not kosher, unclean." Treyf Books by Rob Kovitz are unusual books of an indeterminate type, sort of story-picture montage-remix books for people who can t stomach any more schmaltzy "Chicken Soup for the Soul." Treyf Books are cooked up using texts and images compiled from various sources, usually obsessively related to one or more themes, and then recombined through a process of highly subjective editing, ordering and juxtaposition. " Strange and clever. - Globe & Mail" " Funny, but deep. - Umbrella" " Is this a new form of discourse in step with its multivalent, chaotic times, or just an excuse for intellectual laziness? Only the author knows for sure. - Canadian Architect"

A woman sits alone in a darkened boiler-room. A man enjoys hanging suspended from the ceiling. A dirty room indicates the secret sexual proclivities of its occupant. A curtain rustling in the breeze portends fear and paranoia. " The purpose of a room derives from the special nature of a room. A room is inside. This is what people in rooms have to agree on, as differentiated from lawns, meadows, fields, orchards. " Room Behavior is a book about rooms. Composed of texts and images from the most varied sources including crime novels, decorating manuals, anthropological studies, performance art, crime scene photos, literature and the Bible, to name a few Kovitz shapes the material through a process of highly subjective editing, ordering and juxtaposition to create an original, fascinating and darkly funny rumination about the behavior of rooms and the people that they keep. ""Like the rooms he depicts, the pages of this book are host to an evocative and thought-provoking life of their own. - Uptown Magazine" " Strange and clever. - Globe & Mail" " The book is a unique mini-coffee table paperback, beautifully designed.... Much more than a gift book, Room Behavior is something to pause and reflect on whenever you think about rearranging your furniture. Fast Forward" " This is a book to keep, to review again and again. Funny, but deep. Umbrella" Treyf 25th Anniversary edition.""

"Robert Macaire, discount broker: Here are my conditions. " - Honore Daumier, "Le Charivari, " 27 September 1836 "Jean Baudrillard once suggested an important correction to classical Marxism: exchange value is not, as Marx had it, a distortion of a commodity s underlying use value; use value, instead, is a fiction created by exchange value." - "n+1 Magazine, " Death by Degrees "He had ferreted so much, collected so many clues, that he could have prophesied how the new neighbourhoods would look in 1870. Sometimes, in the street, he would look curiously at certain houses, as if they were acquaintances whose destiny, known to him alone, deeply affected him." - Emile Zola, "The Kill" Our new Gilded Age looks a lot like the 19th century version, as seen and annotated in Rob Kovitz s "Capital of the World, " with words and images collected and remixed from Emile Zola, Honore Daumier, Lewis Lapham, Baron Haussmann, Sam Lipsyte, n+1 Magazine, and various others. " You ll see, murmured Monsieur Hupel de la Noue, that I have perhaps carried poetic licence too far, but I think my boldness has worked. Echo, seeing that Venus has no power over Narcissus, takes him to Plutus, the god of wealth and precious metals. After the temptation of the flesh, the temptation of riches. " " That s very classical, replied Monsieur Toutin-Laroche, with an amiable smile. You know your period, Monsieur le Prefet. " - Emile Zola, "The Kill" *** "treyf, adj. Yiddish] - not kosher, unclean." Treyf Books by Rob Kovitz are unusual books of an indeterminate type, sort of story-picture montage-remix books for people who can t stomach any more schmaltzy "Chicken Soup for the Soul." Treyf Books are cooked up using texts and images compiled from various sources, usually obsessively related to one or more themes, and then recombined through a process of highly subjective editing, ordering and juxtaposition. " Strange and clever. - Globe & Mail" " Funny, but deep. - Umbrella" " Is this a new form of discourse in step with its multivalent, chaotic times, or just an excuse for intellectual laziness? Only the author knows for sure. - Canadian Architect"

The first one is the hardest. Then he discovers he likes it. DEATH WISH: Starring Charles Bronson, Architect is based on the sensationalistic and controversial "Death Wish" movies, in which Charles Bronson portrays an architect who becomes a vigilante-killer. Death Wish by Rob Kovitz is a kind of enigmatic allegory, in which Bronson is Everyman, and Architecture is the dream/nightmare that goes to bed with each of us at night. Treyf 25th Anniversary edition. treyf, adj. Yiddish] - not kosher, unclean. Treyf Books by Rob Kovitz - unusual books of an indeterminate type, sort of story-picture remix books for people who can t stomach any more schmaltzy Chicken Soup for the Soul. Treyf Books are cooked up using texts and images compiled from various sources, usually obsessively related to one or more themes, and then recombined through a process of highly subjective editing, ordering and juxtaposition. Strange and clever. - Globe & Mail Funny, but deep. - Umbrella Is this a new form of discourse in step with its multivalent, chaotic times, or just an excuse for intellectual laziness? Only the author knows for sure. - Canadian Architect

" Oligopoly, like international diplomacy, labor-management negotiations, and so on, is one of the speediest and most thrilling of sports. " Games Oligopolists Play features oligopolists playing at Canada's favourite game, along with pointed commentary from noted hockey analysts Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien and Don Cherry. Handsomely designed and printed, Games Oligopolists Play consists of texts and images collected from economic textbooks and various books and articles on hockey that have been recombined, juxtaposed and ordered by the author in a completely subjective manner. Sharp and funny political/social satire for beginning and advanced fans alike. Treyf 25th Anniversary edition. "treyf, adj. Yiddish] - not kosher, unclean." Treyf Books by Rob Kovitz are unusual books of an indeterminate type, sort of story-picture montage-remix books for people who can t stomach any more schmaltzy "Chicken Soup for the Soul." Treyf Books are cooked up using texts and images compiled from various sources, usually obsessively related to one or more themes, and then recombined through a process of highly subjective editing, ordering and juxtaposition. " Strange and clever. - Globe & Mail" " Funny, but deep. - Umbrella" " Is this a new form of discourse in step with its multivalent, chaotic times, or just an excuse for intellectual laziness? Only the author knows for sure. - Canadian Architect"