Wholesale Free ride

Unlike most playgrounds or sports fields, the different spaces made for skateboarding are never abstract. The majority of current skateparks, with their mix of curves, inclined planes and parallelepiped volumes, synthesize the original space of skateboarding, the ocean, and its place of birth, the modern city. Accompanied by numerous photographic documents, this text is a guided tour of the spaces of skateboarding. The author draws up a kind of formal typology while constituting his archaeology, from Galilean mechanics to the history of minimalist sculpture from which skaters would be the heirs. Dimensions: 13 x 20.8 cm Author: Raphaël Zarka Language: French