Böhm Kobayashi - La Ville Invisible

312 pages
Edited by Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber
Text(s) by Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, with Jochen Becker and an interview by  Ivan Vartanian
Designed by Böhm Kobayashi
28 x 20 cm 
Language: 
Paperback
Publisher: Böhm Kobayashi
Edition of 300 copies
2024

Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have been working since 2017 on Cartographie Dynamique, a virtual network connecting cities in Japan, Germany, France, China or India with the distinctive photographic works created in each location, often focussing on the transformation of the city.

The current chapter, La Ville Invisible, deals with the question of whether major events such as the Olympic Games or EXPO can be accelerators of urban change. To what extent they contribute to changing the understanding of private and public space. Do ideas of coming together, exchange and sporting competition still play a central role or are the arenas and pavilions just more ruins of the future?

The book contains images from Osaka, Tokyo, Paris, Seoul and Sarajevo taken since 2014.