Current PROJECTS
EDITED BOOK
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS on city photobooks EDITED BY D. DERIU AND A. MAGGI
Picturing Cities: The Photobook as Urban Narrative comprises 13 international contributions including an essay by Deriu on the right to the vertical city. This edited volume stems from an international conference of urban history that was held in Bologna (AISU 2019), jointly chaired by Prof. Angelo Maggi (Iuav University of Venice).
The book was published in open access by FrancoAngeli in April 2024. It can be downloaded on PDF here.
Photo-Essay (2024)
An experimental image-text piece published in the CCA web issue: Keep Safe
Davide Deriu’s photo-essay, On the Edge, inaugurates the new web issue published by the Canadian Centre of Architecture (CCA), which focuses on how different measures and regulations ensure or prevent safety in our built environment. This experimental image-text piece weaves together a series of photographs from the CCA collections that feature protective barriers such as handrails and parapets. It revisits prominent place in the canon of Western architectural history in order to explore how photographs can visualise the tense state of being on the edge. By disrupting the logic of the archive, the essay draws on the indeterminate character of fragments to provoke new insights and interpretations.
