{"product_id":"is-this-tomorrow-9780854882700","title":"Is This Tomorrow?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccompanying the innovative new 2019 exhibition \u003cem\u003eIs This Tomorrow?\u003c\/em\u003e at Whitechapel Gallery, this fully-illustrated catalogue re-imagines the classic 1956 publication made for the Gallery's seminal exhibition \u003cem\u003eThis is Tomorrow.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor a major new presentation in 2019, Whitechapel Gallery is taking as a model its groundbreaking 1956 exhibition \u003cem\u003eThis is Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e, an event which is indelibly linked to the institution's history. Organised and developed by architect, writer and sculptor Theo Crosby, \u003cem\u003eThis is Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e featured 37 artists, architects, designers and writers who worked together in 12 small groups. In the catalogue, Lawrence Alloway introduced the exhibition as 'devoted to the possibilities of collaboration', the results of which 'appear to be setting up a programme for the future.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIs This Tomorrow?\u003c\/em\u003e will also feature 12 groups of contemporary architects, artists and other cultural practitioners to highlight the potential of collaboration, to address key issues we face today and to offer a vision of the future. Both UK and international participants will explore subjects from conflict and warfare, economic inequality, migration and resource scarcity, to education, labour, trade and technology, comparing and contrasting the ideas of the original \u003cem\u003eThis is Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e artists and architects whose concerns with communication theory, mass culture and the vernacular reflected their associations with British Constructivism and the Independent Group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe accompanying catalogue will take its inspiration from the original seminal 1956 publication, with each group presenting their process of design and collaboration through plans, sketches and photographs, plus accompanying explanatory texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArchitects featured include Adjaye Associates (UK\/US\/Ghana), Alberto Kalach\/TAX (Mexico), Marina Tabassum Architects (Bangladesh) and Studio Anne Holtrop (Netherlands).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArtists featured include Rana Begum, Cecile B. Evans, Simon Fujiwara and Kapwani Kiwanga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463342932204,"sku":"9780854882700","price":60.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780854882700-is-this-tomorrow.jpg?v=1775031285","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/is-this-tomorrow-9780854882700","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}