Star Machine - Farah al Qasimi cycling acclaimed Spanish architect Inaki Abalos

acclaimed Spanish architect Inaki Abalos explores forms of innovation in architecture

holding them together while shifting their shapes and positions

Comes with diffrent covers

The book includes a conversation between Kenneth Frampton and Alvaro Siza and photos by Vincent Mentzel

Star Machine - Farah al Qasimi cycling acclaimed Spanish architect Inaki AbalosAl Qasimis photographs are filled with flowers but they are rarely real. Instead, they are represented metonymically as object, ornament, pattern, and image. In a series of flower studies, their natural forms are translated materially into a glinting crystal trinket, a perishable garnish carved from a tomato or carrot, and a sugary decoration piped in pink frosting. By capturing this material metamorphosis Al Qasimi amplifies the ways in which flowers