
Slacklands
By Corinna Dean
Writer and Wallpaper* contributor Corinna Dean has turned her eye to the hinterlands of the British rural experience for her new book, Slacklands. Subtitled a 'Guide to Rural Contemporary Architecture' and with a foreword by Margaret Howell, the book presents a catalogue of rural architecture with a twist. This isn't the story of bucolic barns or picturesque farmhouses, but rather the rotting tail-end of militarisation and industrialisation, the great expanses of post Cold War wasteland that has somehow emerged as a new form of picturesque and place of pilgrimage.
Published by Archive for Rural Contemporary Architecture, £18.95