November 11, 2019
‘A Daily Dose of Architecture Books’ reviews ‘Strange Bodies’
Strange Bodies was published by Birkhäuser in 1996, as apart of the exhibition ‘Wiel Arets: A Virological Architecture’ at the Basel Architecture Museum, in Switzerland. ‘…The book is very much of its time. Instead of one project after another, text and images overlap, the former sometimes aligned with the images on the same page, but not always. The many contributions–by Stan Allen, Elizabeth Diller, Greg Lynn, Hani Rashid, and others–run across the top of the page in an almost cinematic fashion. So, if the photos and drawings are images on the screen and the words are dialogue, the latter continues beyond the cuts from one "scene" to the next in the book's "montage," sometimes literally overlapping each other in a cacophony of voices.’