Sammy Stein: The Path uses a ventriloquist's wandering through a parking garage as the lens through which ateliers o-s architectes present their building for Rennes — a work of architectural fiction that reimagines how a civic structure can be narrated and understood.
About This Book
A ventriloquist and his puppet move through a deserted labyrinth, lost in space and time, oscillating between silence and melancholy conversation. The labyrinth is a parking garage for the city of Rennes, designed by ateliers o-s architectes to draw cars away from the city centre. But in this publication, the building is not documented through conventional architectural photography or drawings — it is experienced through the eyes of an artist. The result is a meditation on spatial disorientation, memory, and the strange psychological life of infrastructural architecture. Intended as part of an ongoing collection, the book sits at the productive boundary between architectural monograph and artist publication.
Key Features
- 59 pages of narrative and architectural imagery
- Editors: Vincent Baur, Guillaume Colboc, Gaël Le Nouëne, ateliers o-s architectes
- Notable project: parking garage for the city of Rennes by ateliers o-s architectes
- Published by Spector Books
What You'll Discover
- How an artist's narrative can reveal the psychological and spatial qualities of a building that conventional documentation cannot
- The parking garage as civic infrastructure — a design strategy for redirecting traffic away from a city centre — seen through an entirely non-technical lens
- The interplay of memory, melancholy, and spatial abstraction as modes of architectural experience
- A model for how architectural offices can commission and frame artist responses to their built work
About the Author
[Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 59
- Dimensions: 225 x 300 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783959058681
- Publisher: Spector Books
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects interested in alternative modes of presenting built work, curators and critics exploring the overlap of architectural and artist publications, and readers drawn to narrative approaches to spatial experience.