EZEQUIEL FARCA

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More than a retrospective, this rich, full-color book surveys the scope of the work of multi-award-winning international designer, Ezequiel Farca. Farca’s clean, modern, warm environments – in retail, restaurants, corporate headquarters, resorts like Las Palapas in Playa del Carmen and hotels like the uber-hip Habita in Mexico City – have become icons of modernist Mexico. His 30-person studio, established in 1995, designs a mind-boggling range of projects, including furniture, graphics, toys, household items and industrial projects for clients like Corian Dupont and Aeromexico. Almost 200 illustrations in this book cover 18 years of Farca’s work, and include concepts, drawings, sketches, models and design processes. Informative essays by Juli Capella, Mario Nanni, Ana Elena Mallet, Nicolás Alvarado, Greta Arcila and Ezequiel Farca.

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RECLAIMING THE STREET

Ariadne Urlus and Clint van der Hartt

Reclaiming the Street documents an international “call for ideas” encouraging the design or adaptation of an urban space to be used by both skateboarders and the general public. As part of Endless City, a long-term project of Showroom MAMA (Rotterdam’s center for Media and Moving Art), the competition furthers the investigation of the relationship between skateboard culture, public space and art. This lavishly illustrated book contains all of the nominees, the “people’s choice” selection and the winning design, Twist and Shout by Romi Kohsla Design Studio in New Delhi. A text by architectural historian Ian Borden reflects the playful principles of the competition brief that looks at how skateboarding can transforms the urban environment into a concrete playground, and Jocko Weyland, noted American skateboarder and author, traces the rise of skateboard culture in the eighties.

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