These are the spreads of a book that was the end product of a one-month long summer studio in Mexico City that investigated the informal processes of the street. In particular, this book focused on the street vendor, breaking it down into studies of the architectural constructs of the equipment itself, the urban impact on the street-scapes, and then finally as a global flow of consumer goods. Steeped within the politics of street culture and largely untouched by the official government, the street vendors operate in a separate, hierarchical sub-culture that has its own autonomous laws and stringent regulations. Using the street vendor aesthetic of loudness, sheer massive quantity, and rigorous organization under an illusion of chaos, the book borrows heavily from this language with its use of cropped, collaged photographs and discordant color combinations. Part urban investigation and part architectural conjecture, the book tries to explain a different sort of commerce that makes up a surprising amount of the net global market though we choose to ignore it.
This project has been tagged as print, urban, mapping
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