Ickles, Etc.

Ickles, Etc.

In this novel, noted contemporary science fiction writer Mark von Schlegell<br>imagines architecture in the year 2090 through the character Henries Ickles, Los<br>Angeles s most misunderstood info-architect. Technological, environmental and<br>social catastrophes have changed the meanings of culture, nature, and landscape<br>forever. But in what remains of the international urban scene, architecture still<br>refuses to admit it hasn t been modern since the early 20th century. In the fifth<br>book from the Critical Practice series, von Schlegell puts the sci-fi back in notions<br>of speculative aesthetics. A collection of interconnected comical stories set<br>in New Los Angeles, Danish Expansion, Nieuw Nieuw Amsterdam and 1970s<br>St. Louis, Ickles, Etc. explores the future of architectural practice in light of<br>developments in climatology, quasicrystalography, hyper-contemporary art,<br>time travel, and the EGONET. With artwork by Louise Lawler. Following New<br>Distopia, this is von Shlegell s second novel to be published by Sternberg.