{"title":"V. Mitch McEwen","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the thought-provoking works of V. Mitch McEwen, a visionary author and architect celebrated for blending art, urban design, and cultural commentary. McEwen's writing invites readers into a world where architecture and narrative intersect, exploring how these elements can shape our understanding of community and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn works like \u003cem\u003eErasure by Design\u003c\/em\u003e, McEwen skilfully navigates the complexities of our built environment, highlighting how designs and structures influence cultural dynamics. Her profound insights into the interplay between space, society, and the individual offer a distinctive perspective that enriches our appreciation of both arts and architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you're passionate about urban development, the arts, or cultural studies, V. Mitch McEwen's collection provides a compelling exploration of the ways our environments reflect and affect who we are. Dive into this collection for an enlightening journey that challenges conventional norms and encourages innovative thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"erasure-by-design-by-v-mitch-mcewen-9781941332856","title":"Erasure by Design","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow has erasure formed the space around us? How do we come to know it, so that we can design differently? \u003cem\u003eErasure by Design\u003c\/em\u003e tracks the methods, terms, and racial protocols that continue to do the work of displacement, demolition, and extraction into the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book travels back and forth in time through scenes of erasure at three primary locations—Southwest, Washington DC (displacement); North St Louis (demolition); and South Los Angeles (extraction). \u003cem\u003eErasure by Design\u003c\/em\u003e shares first-person narratives of growing up in the wake of slum clearance—that is, \"urban renewal\"—in Southwest, Washington DC, while assembling archival references that narrate racialized erasure and its legal and spatial precedents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt traces a military complex under construction, where St Louis's cleared grounds and blacked-out sites are also defined by satellites, body experiments, explosions, and emptiness. It moves through specific grounds in Los Angeles—dirt walls, hills, oil fields, gas lines, and houses in the forest—to trace how those grounds matter and how their holding intersects with maps that plan erasure, inhabitation, and extraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBetween these three scenes, \u003cem\u003eErasure by Design\u003c\/em\u003e takes on the aesthetics of bad design and good design, as innovated within the intellectual domain of modern architecture at the Museum of Modern Art and Philip Johnson's Glass House. Through a curated cockroach at MoMA—and even the humour, rumours, and gossip about this roach—\u003cem\u003eErasure by Design\u003c\/em\u003e reads the role that the museum invents for exhibiting, curating, and re-shaping policy, worldview, and the built environment. It also examines how protocols of erasure, demolition, and design conscript the modern built environment into the policing of human and subhuman. In this nuanced reading, the Glass House and its twin, the Brick House, stage a haunting allegory of total violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46851757474028,"sku":"9781941332856","price":43.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/64ce492d863c254d420db3c56ccc906a.jpg?v=1759168627"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/v-mitch-mcewen.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}