Aglaia Konrad uses film and photography to visually extend her interest in urban development, cityscapes and architecture. In this artist book she presents photographs taken in the Carrara region in Italy between 2008 and 2010, along with the 16mm film 'Concrete * Samples III -

After photographing metropolises such as Tokyo, Sao Paolo, Cairo, Paris and Mexico City, Aglaia Konrad manipulates these images by mirroring, enlarging, collaging and copying them. In her two- and three-dimensional installations she not only plays with the phenomena and the representation of the city but also toys with questions concerning ambiguity, identity, and perception. An ambitious and substantial tome, Elasticity offers insight into the characteristics and images of the metropolis. In Konrad's highly individual image manipulations, a fascinating topography of urban fabrics, facades, infrastructure, architectural forms, and surfaces is revealed. This 248-page visual essay presents her personal photographic archive "installed" in book form in a unique sequence and rhythm. Elasticity also offers a reflection on Konrad's work through essays by critic and curator Daniel Kurjakovic, artist Eran Schaerf, and Antonio Guzman, director of art space L'Aquarium in Valenciennes. Published in conjunction with L'Aquarium, Valcenciennes and Argos, Brussels.

G1710 is the result of a cooperation between our architecture office, two artists, a critic and a graphic designer.0This book contains four contributions.0The first contribution is a text written by architecture critic Maarten Van Den Driessche about the work of GAFPA of the last ten years. The second contribution contains pictures of our studio made by Aglaia Konrad including fragments of the making process. The third contribution is from Bert Huyghe. As a painter he contributed a text, illustrated by some of his paintings. The fourth contribution is a selection of research done over the past three years by students in the PRIMARY STRUCTURE studio which we teach with Olivier Goethals at the KU Leuven Faculty of architecture Ghent. Printed from the blog primarystructure.net.0The work of GAFPA runs throughout the blind pages of this publication.

Structured and typeset like an encyclopedia, Aglaia Konrad from A to K draws out and explores the plastic and aesthetic possibilities of the reference book format. It indulges in a certain fascination for lists and their cumulative force while seizing upon the fact that alphabetic organization is extremely orderly, but also, upon reflection, entirely random. The book explores this in-between space and thwarts the self-evident integration of component parts in the reference work. Aglaia Konrad from A to K features a sizeable selection of color and black-and-white photographs, which appear here for the first time. Reflected in the images, and in the list that serves as their space of representation, is the artist's longstanding engagement with architecture, urbanism, cityscapes, and the shifting dimensions and shapes of our public and private environments.

Published alongside an exhibition at DeSingel international arts centre, Antwerp, these photographs examine urban border zones - the periphery, urban infrastructure, construction sites, and anonymous buildings. The photographs of numerous metropolises around the world testify that modernism is a global system.

For the past thirty years, Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama has undertaken a photographic examination of the life of cities and the built environment. Naoya Hatakeyama: Excavating the Future City is the first English-language survey on this renowned Japanese photographer; his work will be introduced by his own writings, as well as in-depth essays by Yasufumi Nakamori, Toyo Ito, and Philippe Forest.