ANTONIS ANTONIOU

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visual REsearch/REmix + editorial spaces + architectural pop +
out of scale + notes on notes + soft definitions + bibliographic lab +
about maps + illustration acts + schematic play

Decoding Manhattan

Authors: Antonis Antoniou & Steven Heller
Cover art: Christoph Niemann
Publisher: Abrams
Publication date: April 2021
Language: English

A visual thesis about an island of diagrams called Manhattan.

DECODING MANHATTAN documents and celebrates the intricate relationship between the city and the diagram to present a retelling of Manhattan’s chronicles. Its language is a rich vocabulary of maps, sections, cutaways and charts, that traverses lines, dots and data to embrace the diagram with a more playful attitude, in its softer definition.

»The sheer amount of specific detail and ephemera that the authors have gathered—for a city that changes so rapidly—is heartening proof that, even as a new stratum of the city devours the one that came before it, there’s some kind of human order to it all.[...] “Decoding Manhattan” is a loving excavation of a singular place, and a reminder to keep your eyes open as you walk around Manhattan, where idiosyncratic treasures can pop out of the ground every day.«
[The New Yorker]

Conceptsvisual REsearch/REmix + architectural pop + out of scale + soft definitions + about maps + illustration acts + schematic play
AccomplicesSteven Heller
LinksDecoding Manhattan[Abrams]
Manhattan as a Muse[The New Yorker]
A Visual History of New York Told Through Its Diagrams, Maps and Graphics[ArchDaily]