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Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait City, Manama, and Riyadh?as metropolises of the Arabian Peninsula, all of these cities are connected by more than just geography. They also stand for a booming economy and rapid urban development with avant-garde architecture set amid breathtaking landscapes. And last, but not least, these cities boast a bustling everyday life defined by immigrants from all over the world. Traditions meets western modernity. What is home to one person is a stopover for another. Busy working life collides with a partying mentality. As gigantic places of transit, these metropolises represent transience, but also opportunity and dazzling encounters. Michele Nastasi has captured them all with a distinctive sense of presence, shaping an engaging journey through the cultural diversity and pulsating life of these cities.00MICHELE NASTASI (*1980, Milan) is known for his photographs of cities and architecture, which are exhibited and published internationally. He holds a PhD in History of Arts from the Ca? Foscari University of Venice, and has done research work on the imagery of architecture.
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Starchitectural reviews
Review of Davide Ponzini and Michele Nastasi, 'Starchitecture: Scenes, Actors and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities'. This new book on the cult of architecture is all about \"procurement\". It examines how, in a range of costly projects in Bilbao, Abu Dhabi, Paris, New York and the Vitra \"campus\", buildings were envisioned, commissioned and \"produced\" - in the Hollywood sense of financial, industrial and distributive accomplishment. More important than \"starchitects\" are the procurement agents and the procedures that engage them, procedures that frequently result in banal, dysfunctional and paradoxical consequences as cities try to distinguish themselves by commissioning \"icons\" to \"brand\" projects that are often either misconceived or merely generic. Some of these delusions are replicated in a global trail of \"mis-icons\". Rational thought is shown to have informed some projects, and it is demonstrated that procurement arose through varying processes in differing contexts. Michele Nastasi's photography aids understanding of this. This review mainly pursues Davide Ponzini's answers to the important question: how do major architectural works get commissioned and procured? And how come they turn out to be not just so poor, but abysmally so? (Quotes from original text)
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