In Please send this book to my mother, artist Sarah Entwistle dismantles the traditional form of the architectural monograph and artist biography.

The book welds together text fragments and visual material from the personal effects of of her grandfather, which were discovered in a Manhattan storeroom in 2011.

Clive Entwistle described his cardinal points as: philosophy, architecture, intellect, and sex. His unconsolidated practice tackled utopian city plans, product design, structural engineering, formal experimentation, and architectural critique

Entwistle’s proposal for the Crystal Palace (1946) was described by Corbusier as, “one of the great projects of our time.” However, none of his proposals were realized, and his presence was largely erased from the landscape of modernism.

The book is published to coincide with Entwistle’s exhibition of new sculptural works, “He was my father and I an atom destined to grow into him.”