Too Blessed To Be Depressed
Crimson Archtectural Historians 1994-2002
ed. by Crimson

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Editor(s)

Crimson

Publication, year

Rotterdam : 010 Publishers, 2002

Scope

312 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.

ISBN

9064504660

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'Too Blessed To Be Depressed' by the Dutch office Crimson Historians & Urbanists, shows the development of a practice and an attitude towards the outside world based not on analysis and simplification but on an endless quest for all the narratives, contradictions, and obsessions that make the city what it is. It presents an initial selection of work by Crimson divided among three themes : History (what to make of it, how to deal with it), Obsession (theirs along with those of others) and Top Down (the impact of large-scale infrastructural and other interventions on the city). Examples mainly taken from Rotterdam.

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Person as subject

Riens Dijkstra, Alison Smithson, Ed Taverne, Crimson, ...[et al.]

Location

Cabinet 15 - 1: Architectuur

Remarks