Star Machine - Farah al Qasimi cycling at the walking pace of

at the walking pace of the stretched moment

The book includes a conversation between Kenneth Frampton and Alvaro Siza and photos by Vincent Mentzel

encountering and documenting the reality of the British landscape unfurling ahead of them

This is a book for anyone who cares about where they lay their head and hang their hat

Star Machine - Farah al Qasimi cycling at the walking pace ofAl Qasimis photographs are filled with flowers but they are rarely real. Instead, they are represented metonymically as object, ornament, pattern, and image. In a series of flower studies, their natural forms are translated materially into a glinting crystal trinket, a perishable garnish carved from a tomato or carrot, and a sugary decoration piped in pink frosting. By capturing this material metamorphosis Al Qasimi amplifies the ways in which flowers