In Please send this book to my mother, artist Sarah Entwistle dismantles the traditional form of the architectural monograph and artist biography.

In 2011, the astounding personal effects of her grandfather, architect Clive Entwistle (1916 76), emerged from a Manhattan storeroom. This book welds together original text fragments and extensive visual material from the collection and Clive Entwistle s years in Paris, London, Tangiers, and New York.

Clive Entwistle described his cardinal points as: Philosophy, Architecture, Intellect, and Sex. He was an autodidact whose unconsolidated practice tackled utopian city plans, product design, structural engineering, formal experimentation, and architectural critique. The one-time translator and collaborator of Le Corbusier, Entwistle s proposal for the Crystal Palace (1946) was described by Corbusier as, one of the great projects of our time. However, none of his ambitious proposals was realized, and Entwistle s presence was largely erased from the landscape of modernism.

Language: English