Shapes, Islands and Text is the first volume of the Intelligentsia collection edited by Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski. Keeping an experimental character, the publication creates a manifesto through the juxtaposition of paintings, poetry, essays, images and objects created through and paralleled to the collaboration Garcia Frankowski.
Manifesto
There is a form of architecture that aims at not getting built. An architecture on paper that should not be confused with paper architecture. An architecture based on pure statements in which real brick, mortar, and poured concrete are substituted by cut-and-pasted paper and narrative prose. An architecture about the failed and accomplished ambitions of buildings and master plans. An architecture that although focused on the critique of this ambition... Continue reading
Garcia Frankowski is a creative practice formed by Cruz García (San Juan, 1983), architect, artist and writer from Puerto Rico graduated by the University of Puerto Rico, and Nathalie Frankowski (Dundee, 1985), architect, poetess and artist graduated by the Ecole French Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture of Paris La Villette.
In 2008 they both founded in Brussels ... Continue reading
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Garcia Frankowski is a creative practice formed by Cruz García (San Juan, 1983), architect, artist and writer from Puerto Rico graduated by the University of Puerto Rico, and Nathalie Frankowski (Dundee, 1985), architect, poetess and artist... Continue reading
