{"title":"Donovan Wylie","description":"\u003cp\u003eDonovan Wylie’s works offer a compelling exploration of contemporary landscapes through a unique artistic lens. His books delve into themes of architecture, space, and human intervention, often blending photography with thoughtful narrative to challenge perceptions of place and design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a richly visual journey that highlights the intersection of environment and culture, inviting reflection on how structures shape and reflect our experience of the world. Wylie’s contributions to \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e reveal a distinctive approach to observing and documenting the built environment.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"donovan-wylie-housing-plans-for-the-future-by-donovan-wylie-9783958294882","title":"Donovan Wylie: Housing Plans for the Future","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the latest of Donovan Wylie's books with Steidl that explore the architecture of the Northern Ireland conflict. While Wylie's earlier publications, including \u003cem\u003eBritish Watchtowers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMaze\u003c\/em\u003e (on Belfast's Maze prison), document disappearing military structures, \u003cem\u003eHousing Plans for the Future\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the legacy of architectural containment in urban areas today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWylie took these photos during walks through a number of social-housing neighbourhoods in inner-city Belfast, which look eerily similar. While the built environments at first appear benign, even mundane, sustained looking reveals how they purposely control vision and movement. Walls block vehicle access, houses are inverted to face away from neighbouring communities and minimise potential antagonism, and excessive street lighting ensures visibility in what Wylie calls \"a prison of sorts... a completely thought-through system of social control.\" These defensive structures, built in the 1970s and '80s and still populated today, are a powerful and largely unrecognised legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460706910444,"sku":"9783958294882","price":72.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958294882-donovan-wylie-housing-plans-for-the-future.jpg?v=1774951177"},{"product_id":"donovan-wylie-by-donovan-wylie-9783869307732","title":"Donovan Wylie","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNorth Warning System\u003c\/em\u003e is Donovan Wylie's third and final book of photographs on the themes of vision and power in military architecture, and draws a close to his Tower Series. Surveying a radar station just inside the Canadian Arctic, Wylie examines the detection of invisible threats through unmanned observation posts in remote regions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe development of long-range bombers and missiles after the Second World War made Canada's arctic frontier vulnerable to attack from the air. This forced Canada and the United States to jointly construct a matrix of short and long-range radar stations in the 1950s. Known as the Distant Early Warning Line, these stations provided electronic observation and surveillance capability across Canada's northern frontier throughout the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1990s, these stations were upgraded to form the North Warning System (NWS) which is increasingly active—as international maritime traffic develops throughout the north, so does military presence. In \u003cem\u003eNorth Warning System\u003c\/em\u003e, whiteness takes on the quality of a blank canvas, a metaphor for the sweep of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470470398188,"sku":"9783869307732","price":53.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783869307732-donovan-wylie.jpg?v=1775219620"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/donovan-wylie.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}