Indo-Pacific: Histories for an Instantaneous Region
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Indo-Pacific: Histories for an Instantaneous Region
By (Author) Urtzi Grau
By (author) Fake Industries
Actar Publishers
Actar Publishers
9th September 2025
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
City and town planning: architectural aspects
Individual architects and architectural firms
Physical Properties
Hardback
160
Width 195mm, Height 238mm
Description
In 2013 Australia officially moved to the Indo-Pacific, a region created ex-novo that expands from South America to the Gulf, from South East Asia to East Africa. The maps and the stories of the Indo-Pacific regionthe social, political, economic, technological, eco-systemic, and spatial relations that define itare currently being constructed. This book is a first attempt to draw this parafictional region, an imaginary space relentlessly becoming real, and the physical and intangible dimensions of the edifice that holds it together.
The book delves into the intricate narratives that define the region,drawing on deep-time stories, historical events, and geopolitical shifts.The establishment of a new global region is portrayed as a rare andtransformative event, shaping the worlds geopolitical landscape. In this context, the book emphasizes the unique role of architecture as a universallanguage intersecting with social, political, economic, technological, eco-systemic, and spatial aspects of the Indo-Pacific region.
Author Bio
Urtzi Grau is an architect and an academic in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney and founder of the office Urtzi Grau / Fake Industries. His research explores the role of architecture in responding to critical challenges impacting the Indo-Pacific region, including climate justice, immigration, land rights and extractive economics. He is the author of several books, including Folk Costumes Indo Pacific Air (APE, 2022), Better Together, Stories of Contemporary Documents (URO, 2022), Learning to Live Together: Humans, Cars, and Kerbs in Solidarity (Bartlebooth, 2021) and Melbourne, Sydney: References, Reflections and Remarks (Post-Post, 2018). In his professional work he uses replicas -- both as literal reproductions of a pre-existing works and, in a sense denoted in Romance languages, as responses to previous statements--to produce architecture.
