TO REALLY SEE THE BIG PICTURE, WE MAY HAVE TO RETRACE THE ROUTE OF THE FIRST WAVE OF IRANIAN CINEMA THAT FOUND ITS WAY INTO THE WORLD’S CINEMATIC MAP BACK IN THE 90S THROUGH ITS MOST SIGNIFICANT CHARACTERS — CHILDREN.
AN IRANIAN BIMONTHLY ON ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN
THIS 400-PAGE PUBLICATION BY ANDRÉ TAVARES AND THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE (ED.) MANIFESTS THAT LINKAGE THAT ALLOWS FOR ARCHITECTURAL KNOWLEDGE TO BE TRANSMITTED BACK AND FORTH THROUGH THE MEDIUM KNOWN AS ‘ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS.’
CAMBODIAN-FRENCH YOUNG GENERATION FILMMAKER, DAVY CHOU TAKES HIS AUDIENCE INTO THE LANDSCAPE OF MODERN-DAY CAMBODIA THAT IS FAR FROM THE WRECKAGE OF THE POST-KHMER ROUGE ERA.
RABBITHOOD, A CHIANG MAI-BASED DESIGN STUDIO, BRINGS TOGETHER THE CITY’S BOOKSHOPS, RESTAURANTS AND MUSEUMS WITHIN THE PAGES OF ‘LITTLE CHIANG MAI,’ A GUIDEBOOK WITH CHARACTER DIRECTLY RELATABLE TO ITS CONTENT.
THIS PUBLICATION FEATURING 28 FILIPINO ARTISTS PRESENTS THE CHARACTERISTICS OF METRO MANILA’S NEIGHBORHOODS ALONG WITH EACH ARTIST’S VIEWS ON THEIR OWN ART.
ACROSS CHINESE CITIES – IDEAS IN ACTION (CRITICAL DESIGN PRACTICE IN CHINA) BY BEATRICE LEANZA, PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO THE CURRENT DESIGN TIDES WITHIN CHINA THROUGH ITS 320 PAGES BRINGING TOGETHER SOME 115 PROJECTS BY BOTH LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL CREATIVES CURRENTLY WORKING IN THE PRC.
THE POPULARITY OF CILANTRO OR ‘PHAK CHI’ IN JAPAN OVER THE PAST YEAR GOT MANY PEOPLE THINKING THAT PERHAPS THE JAPANESE WERE BORN WITH A STRONGER SENSE OF SMELL THAN MOST OF US. BUT THE REALITY IS THEY ARE THE SAME.
AN ARCHITECT AND AN ELEPHANT ON A JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY THROUGH THAILAND IS THE PREMISE OF THE STORY BEHIND POP AYE, THE DEBUT FEATURE FILM BY SINGAPOREAN FILM DIRECTOR KIRSTEN TAN CURRENTLY ON ITS WAY FOR SCREENING AT THE RENOWNED SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL IN 2017. ART4D SPOKE WITH TAN TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HER CREATIVE PROCESS AND HOW POP AYE CAME TO BE.
A ZINE THAT GOES BY THE NAME CRUST CATALOG VOLUME 1: FOOD & SEX BY CHIN HUI WEN, THE FOUNDER OF SINGAPORE CEREAL BRAND EASTERN GRANOLA, TAKES US ON A JOURNEY TO EXPLORE ATTITUDES TOWARD SEXUALITY AND GASTRONOMIC APPETITES.
