Often books which focus on modernist architecture feature buildings etc that, while sometimes grand in scale and intention, can also be somewhat utilitarian and even dour in terms of their design, which in turn is often due in part to their raw uncoloured concrete designs/facades.
Miami In The 80s: The Vanishing Architecture of a Paradise Lost, edited by Charlotte von Moos, takes something of a different tack through focusing on the modernist, colourful and at times playful and even more than a little surreal architecture of, as the book’s title suggests, the disappearing, demolished etc architecture of Miami in the 1980s.
Some of the buildings in the book seem to create a certain porousness between reality and fiction, where the glamorously gritty, at times almost hyperreal seeming colourful vision of life in Miami back when as depicted in the iconic 1980s buddy police drama series Miami Vice had bled through television sets and taken root in the real world…
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