Abstract from the Concrete - David Harvey Berlin Publisher fluid architecture

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its faculty included such luminaries as Paul Klee

focusing on artworks in which the seemingly straightforward document is valued not only as a source of information but also as a distinctive visual and critical form

dedicated to an object that is so much more than a garment: it’s a mirror of desires and passions far beyond reason

such as the iconic inscription ‘Dem deutschen Volke’ (To the German People) above the portal of the Reichstag building in Berlin

Abstract from the Concrete - David Harvey Berlin Publisher fluid architectureMarxist geographer David Harvey opened his lecture with a fact: between 2011 and 2013 China consumed 50 percent more cement than the United States had in the entire twentieth century. moreIn Abstract from the Concrete, he asks why. Spiraling outwardgeographically and materiallyHarvey travels from the building industry in China to the foreclosed housing market in the United States to the automobile industry in So Paolo and back again. The why emerges