About this Book

Fragile city brings together four specific kinds of materials: photographs from Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (the future Le Corbusier) and August Klipstein's "Voyage d'Orient" from 1911; photographs by David Bergé from 2011; a selection of quotes from Elke Krasny's curatorial research in 2011; and essays by Tülay Atak, David Bergé and Elke Krasy, which reflect upon this body of material. By bringing these materials together, we are aiming to weave an understanding of the urban where one form may relate to another in a multiplicity of ways, across spaces and times, text and images, physical bodies in the here and now, and by fragile connections that resist standard means of documentation while unfolding new ones"--Pages 1-2.