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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Pig City Model Farm

Pig City Model Farm

Kovitz, Rob

Paperback

AgricultureGeneral ArchitectureIndividual Artists

ISBN10: 1927923085
ISBN13: 9781927923085
Publisher: Treyf Books
Published: Apr 1 2014
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.61 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
If we could suddenly see this arranged order as it will be seen in its full functioning, it is not to be doubted that many of the Civilized would be struck dead by the violence of their ecstasy.

PIG CITY MODEL FARM is a strange, amusing and disturbing book about architecture, agriculture, and utopia. About instrumental thinking and rational method versus irony and doubt as anti-method. About copronomy and building design, model farms, country-life, class status in the Chinese countryside, Ultra-Sweet Pignectar, an architect's first sexual experience, Charles Fourier, Marcel Duchamp, paranoia, poisonous fruit, and how things become their opposite.

Treyf 25th Anniversary edition.

treyf, adj. [Yiddish] - not kosher, unclean.

Treyf Books by Rob Kovitz are unusual books of an indeterminate type, sort of story-picture montage-remix books for people who can't stomach any more schmaltzy Chicken Soup for the Soul. Treyf Books are cooked up using texts and images compiled from various sources, usually obsessively related to one or more themes, and then recombined through a process of highly subjective editing, ordering and juxtaposition.

Strange and clever. - Globe & Mail

Funny, but deep. - Umbrella

Is this a new form of discourse in step with its multivalent, chaotic times, or just an excuse for intellectual laziness? Only the author knows for sure. - Canadian Architect

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