GCBC #016 Ways of Seeing written byJohn Berger

" Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.

" But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding wold; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The realation between what we see and what know is never settled." John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential boos on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: " This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by connecting on how we look at paintings... he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has

Ways Of Seeing

Book #015 - Yes Is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution by Bjarke Ingels

YES IS MORE is the first monograph of its kind devoted exclusively to the trailblazing practice of BIG, a Copenhagenbased group of architects, designers and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development.



Unlike a classic architectural monograph, this book is more of a manifesto of popular culture, in which BIG s methods, means, processes and approach to the concept of architecture are revealed as being as unconventional, unexpected and result-producing as the world in which it exists, continually reaffirming its mission with a resounding YES.



In YES IS MORE BIG shows how its members respond to the polymorphous demands, complex rules and highly specialized knowledge of society, creating tangible solutions through artistic processes: solutions that time and again attract the interest of the population at large while earning the respect of aficionados across the globe.




YES IS MORE speaks the language of popular culture, allowing the sublime to shine through in the commonplace. It enables readers to gain insights into Big s processes, methods and results through the most approachable and populist means of communication the cartoon.



BIG has repeatedly attracted public attention and triggered political debate with projects such as a three-kilometerlong wall of social housing wrapped around a park of soccer fields in Copenhagen, the proposal to consolidate all of Denmark s harbor activities in a star-shaped superharbor along the bridge between Denmark and Germany and recently by proposing to move Denmark s national symbol, the Little Mermaid, to China for six months as part of the Danish Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 and getting to do just that!