16 years in the making, 196 photos, 112 pages, 11”x8.5” softcover, $29, the book has landed. Black Rock City is a unique urban experiment in the American landscape. For one week 50,000 people deploy treasures of ingenuity to survive in style (or not) and leave no trace in one of the harshest environment of the USA. Home of the Burning Man festival, the artistic nature of the event calls for one-of-a-kind solutions mixed with open source creations and off-the-shelve gear. From 1996 to 2010, photographer
Philippe Glade documented more than 170 ephemeral dwellings, camps, structures of BRC. This books presents for the first time a comprehensive selection of those solutions.
Contact us Thank you very,very, much all of you Burners from all over the world. We sent books to most of the US states, all provinces of Canada, Australia (a lot), New Zealand, Dubai, Singapore, Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy, United Kingdom (a lot), Germany, Israel, even France! A very limited number of books (20) are available for Europe at a decent postage rate.
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We are back, rejuvenated and ready to fulfill your orders. Few copies are available in San Francisco at:
ZINC Details 1905 Fillmore street
DISTRACTIONS 1552 Haight St
The BOOKSMITH 1644 Haight St
GREEN APPLE BOOKS 506 Clement St
WILLIAM STOUT 804 Montgomery St Also, some copies are available in France:
Librairie Photographique 17 rue de la Villette 75019 Paris
Le Genre Urbain 60 rue de Belleville 75020 Paris
MAV Place François Mitterrand 59777 Euralille
What shelter has the smallest footprint in the world? page 23 Have you ever seen Black Rock City from space? page 2 Relaxomatic Plushitorium: wood or fabric? page 36 Hang out under the largest temporary tensile structure in the world: page 80 Wonder what was the shape of the infamous Bianca Smut Shack? page 76 Can you find the Yanta camp on S’mores? page 84 What the heck is a Van Brink/Lerner dome? page 70 Icosahedron shelters, 6V domes, the Hooch, shade cloth, tent poles: looking for some addresses? more than 120 resources from page 106 to 109 Vinay Gupta invented one of the most popular shelters of BRC, find out page 38