The Architecture of Transit, Sue Barr
- Submitting institution
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32DH1
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Hartmann Books
- ISBN
- 9783960700272
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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5 - City Lab
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The publication, ‘Sue Barr: The Architecture of Transit: Searching for the Sublime in Motorway Architecture Between the Alps and Naples’ is resultant from a joint project between Dr David Heathcote and Dr Sue Barr which has been ongoing since they began to collaborate on research into the architecture of motorways in 2005. A result of their work together is this book of photographic research into the architecture of Italian autostrada with an accompanying essay by Dr Heathcote. The book documents the jointly undertaken research project as described in the essay. The research has been supported by the Rees Jeffries Road Fund and The Sasakawa Foundation that enabled him, with Sue, to document motorways in Europe, America and Japan. The text and images demonstrate methodological experiments necessitated by essaying a new field of study: testing known methods on a new subject, such as the necessity of building innovative typologies of road structures influences by Jurg Conzett’s typological study of the retaining wall. It documents the building of a typology and decision to discard it also. Important questions were asked: How does one represent the poetics of the road as a narrative when the structures are so large (e.g. p.34/35)? How can its hard modernity be contrasted with the softer historic vistas of the Grand Tour (e.g. p.29)? The 2019 catalogue essay makes public for the first time the research process they undertook together. Choices of what, where and how to photograph are documented. The project included innovation in photographic technology: an invention of a digital large plate camera which they used together to photograph the construction of the Greek Odos Egnatia. Approaching a new subject for academic study, the essay documents the novel questions they asked about the aesthetics of motorways.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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