{"title":"Florencia Pita","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlorencia Pita's work invites readers to explore the rich intersections of \u003cstrong\u003earts and culture\u003c\/strong\u003e through evocative storytelling and thoughtful reflection. Her narrative style blends vivid imagery with profound insights, creating a space where the internal and external worlds intertwine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin or Without exemplifies Pita's ability to navigate complex emotional landscapes and cultural themes with subtlety and grace. Readers can expect a compelling journey that resonates beyond the page, offering fresh perspectives on identity and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"within-or-without-by-jackilin-bloom-9781948765473","title":"Within or Without","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScott Ruff's studio, \u003cem\u003eGullah\/Geechee Institute\u003c\/em\u003e, investigated architecture's role as a cultural signifier in the African-American GullahGeechee community off the South Carolina coast. It challenged students to translate cultural ideas into tectonic and spatial strategies for a monument, museum, and memorial that serves as a gateway to the GullahGeechee corridor, incorporating public interpretive and historical programs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Florencia Pita and Jackilin Bloom's studio, \u003cem\u003eEasy Office\u003c\/em\u003e, students experimented with ways of generating new spatial, formal, material, and narrative ideas through the processes of collecting, collaging, and casting everyday objects. The studio considered notions of the creative office and the workplace based on the unexpected space, form, and materiality that emerged from these processes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStudents in Omar Gandhi's studio, \u003cem\u003eWhere the Wild Things Are\u003c\/em\u003e, designed a campus of creatures for Rabbit Snare Gorge on the north coast of Cape Breton Island. They focused on a series of interventions that used vernacular approaches to produce specific functions, develop a process or ideology, and frame sensory experience. The students explored how Nova Scotia's regional architecture takes advantage of phenomenological opportunities available on the site and inspires new responses to climate and geography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428462510316,"sku":"9781948765473","price":74.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781948765473.jpg?v=1774496606"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/florencia-pita.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}