Concept, text and photography Theo Baart Design Typography & Other Serious Matters Size 24x28cm 144 ISBN English edition 90-5662-320-6 Publisher NAi publishers ISBN 90 5662 319 2
Territorium focuses on the place where Theo Baart lived for five years with his family, the modernist suburb of Bijlmermeer on the outskirts of Amsterdam. Designers and policy makers are creating a new urban landscape meant to withstand the new times. The old landscape, designed by a previous generation of urban planners, lacked flexibility and was no longer liveable in after thirty years. Slightly amazed, Theo Baart watched from his own apartment how a major renewal operation relates to the users of that urban landscape. Family photos of his children, combined with informal portraits and interviews with his neighbours, dominate the book, giving it a personal quality.
