About the Book
Huts, Temples, Castles presents a visual record of Jongensland, a self-governed children’s playground established in postwar Amsterdam. Located on an island and accessible only by rowboat, Jongensland evolved into a space of improvised construction and communal learning. Here, children built huts, towers, and shelters from scrap wood, developing spatial strategies through unstructured play and collective experimentation.
In 1969–70, photographer Ursula Schulz-Dornburg documented these structures with a detached, architectural gaze. Her black-and-white photographs observe the temporary and cyclical nature of the buildings—constructed, dismantled, and reconstructed—highlighting the intuitive intelligence behind them. These images form a meditation on impermanence, imagination, and the informal architecture of necessity.
An essay by Tom Wilkinson situates Jongensland within broader discussions on participatory space and vernacular construction. This hardcover edition contains 80 pages and embossed binding.
The signed edition includes a slip signed by the artist, bound into the inside back cover.
Hardcover, 23.0 x
26.0
cm, 0.5 kg, 80 pages, English
ISBN: 9781913620820
About the Author
Ursula Schulz‑Dornburg (b. 1938, Berlin) is a German conceptual photographer based in Düsseldorf. Known for serial, minimalist black-and-white images of built environments and architecture worldwide, she has published over 25 books and received major awards such as the AIMIA/AGO prize (2016) and Paris Photo–Aperture Catalogue of the Year (2018)
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