Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

This book is a lyrical document of a decade or so of recent transformations in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. The book also serves as a practical guide for the navigation and appreciation of contemporary cities. Poet and essayist Lisa Robertson maintains the Office for Soft Architecture to construct propositions and reports for the advancement of a natural history of civic surface. She is the author of three books of poetry, Xeclogue, Debbie: An Epic, and The Weather, all available from SPD. Her prose has appeared in Cabinet, Front, Jacket, Mix, Collapse, Nest magazine and many art catalogs and monographs.