Jamshid Kooros: “These maps are based on walking, walking, walking.”
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Very Expensive Maps
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Arlington “reformed architect” and pictorial cartographer Jamshid Kooros discusses his 30 years of mapmaking based on photographs, sketching and “walking, walking, walking,” the end of the drop-in pitch, turning three-week hikes into maps of French cities and castles, doing his own paper engineering for a pop-up map of Washington D.C., spending nine months on his Santa Fe map (which irked some locals), and being warned away from Civil War battlefield maps (“The buffs know every rock and tree and they will find a mistake.”) See his work at koorosmaps.com/welcome.html
- Philadelphia
- Washington, D.C.
- Williamsburg
- Santa Fe
- I think this issue of GQ Japan includes his Paris map as an insert
- Jo Mora
- MacDonald “Max” Gill
- Jane Crosen (see ep. 15)
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