Book Talk: Sandfuture with Justin Beal and Dung Ngo

Artist and writer Justin Beal will discuss his new book, Sandfuture, with design writer and editor Dung Ngo.

Sandfuture (MIT Press, 2021) is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki, who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. Sandfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture’s role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster.

From the central thread of Yamasaki’s life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built.

“A daring literary construct.” —Rem Koolhaas

Speakers:
Justin Beal, Artist & Writer
Dung Ngo, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, AUGUST; Contributor, Architectural Digest

About the Speakers:
Justin Beal is an artist with an extensive exhibition history in the United States and Europe. Beal graduated from Yale University with a degree in architecture and continued his studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program and the University of Southern California. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, and the Los Angeles Times and is included in the permanent collections of the Albright Knox Museum, the Hammer Museum, and MoCA Los Angeles.

Dung Ngo is a design writer and editor. He is a contributor to Architectural Digest, Wallpaper magazine, and The Forum, and the Design Miami/ online magazine. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of AUGUST, a biannual print journal on travel and design. He was the creative director and senior architecture editor at Rizzoli International Publications in New York from 2006 to 2015.

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