Eagle Village

Limited print - 1 50 numbered copies
396 pages / 234 photographs
Hardcover, 9 x12 in.

Collaborators: Sheila Nadimi, John Vaccaro
Book photographs by Tavish Kincaid

Book design and graphic work for Sheila Nadimi’s Eagle Village Project.

Eagle Village: A Deep Mapping of Fallow Architecture assembles a decades-long engagement with a network of boarded-up military buildings at the southern edge of the small town of Brigham City, Utah. Using the same architectural footprint, this infrastructure shifted from a WWII Army Hospital to the Intermountain Indian School—the largest of the off-reservation federal Indian boarding schools in the United States. Upon the closure of the school in 1984, the buildings lay dormant for decades. After an effort to repurpose them as a New Urbanist townhome community to be called Eagle Village, the masterplan was abandoned, the buildings demolished over years, and the land cleared.

Initiated in 1996, when the artist Sheila Nadimi first gained permission to access and photograph these buildings, Eagle Village takes a deep mapping framework to reveal the cultural and political forces that shaped and reimagined this site over time and generates a spatial archive of place following over 25 years of observation, outreach, research, and contemplation.

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