A set of 20 architectural drawings on the role of civil architecture during nuclear catastrophe. Macro-photographs and copy-camera work illustrate descriptive texts on civic space and emergency operating centers, targeting procedures, modern nuclear weapons, blast and fallout protection in architecture, etc. Printed in an open edition, 24”x36”, 20lb bond, bound lefthand side as bid set.

Images and text are taken in part, recombinant and altered from the following:

Fundamentals of Aerospace Weapons Systems, Air University, 1961

City Halls and Emergency Operating Centers, Office of Civil Defense and School of Architecture, University of Kentucky, TR-32, Jan. 1966

Ark Sakura, Kobo Abe
Translation by J.Carpenter, 1988