Promotional Information

Drawing from an expansive range of sources from anarchists to Boy Scouts Katrina refugees to GTMO detainees Hailey demonstrates his keen architect's eye in revealing camp as a pedagogic fulcrum that springs beyond traditional classroom experience. Cracking the multivalent lingo of camps this book is more than a guide to hidden treasure or singular reading of our global territory. It is also a generative resource operating within today's interconnected terrain of identity and spatial politics asking how we as individuals make camp. -- Chris Taylor, Architect, Educator, and Director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University

About the Author

Charlie Hailey, Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Florida, is the author of Camps- A Guide to 21st Century Space (MIT Press) and other books. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018.

Reviews

"Drawing from an expansive range of sources, from anarchists to Boy Scouts, Katrina refugees to GTMO detainees, Hailey demonstrates his keen architect's eye in revealing camp as a pedagogic fulcrum that springs beyond traditional classroom experience. Cracking the multivalent lingo of camps, this book is more than a guide to hidden treasure or singular reading of our global territory. It is also a generative resource operating within today's interconnected terrain of identity and spatial politics, asking how we as individuals make camp."--Chris Taylor, Architect, Educator, and Director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University