Paperback. The Howff Project is an exploration of artist Tim Knowless landscape project by the same name. For more than two years, Knowles built a network of hidden, site-specific shelters across the Scottish landscape. Inspired by the Scottish word howff, which describes an abode, tavern, familiar haunt, or shelter, Knowles utilized existing structures and features in the landscape and then adapted, modified, and reconfigured their characteristics to create a series of unique hidden shelters, providing refuge in remote areas. The Howff Project takes readers behind the scenes of the making of each structure, from conception to finished product. Visually rich, the book captures the landscape through more than one hundred stunning photographs and drawings, and personal anecdotes detail Knowless experience traveling through the Scottish Lowlands and the mountains of Aberdeenshire and the Cairngorms. The Howff Project is an exploration of artist Tim Knowless network of hidden, site-specific shelters across the Scottish landscape. The book also features an essay on shelter by anthropologist Tim Ingold, a survey of existing alternative, hidden or secret shelters and a text by Claudia Zieske examining issues around land use, ownership and access. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: The Howff Project (Paperback)
Publisher: Intellect, Bristol
Publication Date: 2020
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1789382114
ISBN 13: 9781789382112
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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The Howff Project is an exploration of artist Tim Knowles’s landscape project by the same name. For more than two years, Knowles built a network of hidden, site-specific shelters across the Scottish landscape. Inspired by the Scottish word “howff,” which describes an abode, tavern, familiar haunt, or shelter, Knowles utilized existing structures and features in the landscape and then adapted, modified, and reconfigured their characteristics to create a series of unique hidden shelters, providing refuge in remote areas.

The Howff Project takes readers behind the scenes of the making of each structure, from conception to finished product. Visually rich, the book captures the landscape through more than one hundred stunning photographs and drawings, and personal anecdotes detail Knowles’s experience traveling through the Scottish Lowlands and the mountains of Aberdeenshire and the Cairngorms.

About the Author

Tim Knowles is an artist living in Bristol. His work is exhibited widely in the UK and internationally and he has been commissioned to present temporary works and events in major cities around the world.

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