146 pages Edited by THWRB3AT Photographies by THWRB3AT Essay by Nicolas Ciarlone Foreword by Harry Breda-Beck 24 x 17 cm Language: English Paperback, comes with a postcard and a sticker 2025
Topologisms is a photographic collection by THWRB3AT, created using geospatial data, that documents the topological aesthetics of European railway infrastructures and the implicit geometries they embody. This monographic work features over 120 photographs of railway networks, stations, depots, rail interchanges, and industrial zone terminals. It highlights the architectural, social, experiential, and sensory aspects of our relationship with these transport networks, and their striking beauty.
The book opens with a foreword by Professor Harry Breda-Beck on the origins of industrial forms, examining the morphotopological and aesthetic properties of contemporary transport infrastructures.
An essay by Nicolas Ciarlone, illustrated with photographs by THWRB3AT, provides new conceptual perspectives on the role of transport infrastructures and sociotechnical systems in our understanding of the "urban," emphasizing the limitations of the concepts of public space and non-place in grasping the singularities of these infrastructural spaces and their relationships with unauthorized artistic practices.
