Raimund abraham drawings of animals

Raimund Abraham. [UN]BUILT
2nd revised and enlarged edition, edited by Brigitte Groihofer, Springer, ( pp., £)

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You can read them again and again, smell them, browse through their pages and always find a new detail that makes them essential.

Raimund abraham drawings of animals

This is one of these books. The first edition of the monograph [UN]BUILT was published in It was preceded by an extensive research and the compilation of a list of works. Part of the great value of this second edition, in hands of Brigitte Groihofer, is that Raimund Abraham's daughter, Una, gave her access to the archives which contains the sketches, drawings and photographs of Abraham's work, making possible to reconstruct all the illustrations that appeared on the first edition, but updating and reproducing new material by digital means.

Abraham said in a conversation with Kenneth Frampton [1] that his chosen thematic owes its origin to his in