MacGuffin #14: The Wall takes one of the most loaded objects in the built environment — the wall — and traces its contradictions across history, politics, memorialisation, and the digital age, from Palestine to Jamaica to the glass tower.
About This Book
Walls divide and define, protect and oppress, speak and silence. This fourteenth issue of MacGuffin, the Dutch design magazine dedicated to the lives of objects, directs its lens at the wall in all its manifestations: the Apartheid barrier in Palestine, memorial murals in Jamaica, the soaring glass facades of contemporary office architecture, and the incorporeal architecture of the digital paywall. What connects these vastly different surfaces is the human compulsion to communicate, exclude, and enclose. For designers, architects, and cultural theorists alike, The Wall is a meditation on the politics of the built environment and the paradoxes that structure our world.
Key Features
- 216 pages of editorial essays, visual journalism, and object-centred cultural criticism
- Published by MacGuffin, ISSN 24058203
What You'll Discover
- How the Apartheid wall in Palestine functions simultaneously as political instrument and contested surface of resistance
- The role of memorial murals in Jamaica as walls that carry collective grief and community identity
- The glass facade as a contemporary architectural language of transparency that nonetheless enforces exclusion
- The wall as concept extended into the digital realm, where paywalls replicate ancient logics of access and enclosure
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 216
- Dimensions: 210 × 280 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: [Details available upon request]
- Publisher: MacGuffin
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, spatial theorists, cultural critics, and design researchers drawn to object-centred thinking and the political dimensions of the built environment.