Great Books for Designers to Read in 2019: Cocoons

COCOONS
By Peter Steinhauer
powerHouse Books • $65
Since 1993, award-winning photographer Peter Steinhauer has documented the many facets of Asian culture, with a keen eye for architecture, urban landscape and man-made structures and environments. Steinhauer covers Hong Kong’s bamboo scaffolders, who once practiced their trade at construction sites throughout Asia. Reproduced in this collectible book are 100 remarkable images that reflect Steinhauer’s fascination with these hauntingly beautiful and monumental edifices.

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