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Liquid Pedagogy
(2021-05-20)
Liquid Pedagogy is a critical reflection on pedagogy and the discipline of architecture which historically is shaped by but also has shaped the learning spaces in architecture schools. The thesis is materialized in a design ...
THOSE PREGNANT IMAGES I WOULD LIKE TO BRING BACK TO CHINA
(2021-02-09)
Since modernity, the term “atlas” has garnered a meaning beyond an accumulation of maps, referring also to the practice of collecting images. Aby Warburg collected 971 images in his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne to create a model ...
Exploitive By Design: Warning Signs From the Northwest Amazon
(2021-05-19)
This body of work concerns the impact of imposed capital and culture in the 19th and early 20th centuries’ “Rubber Boom” and today’s 21st-century tourism industry in Iquitos, Peru, because there are parallels in the effects ...
Synthetic Ecologies: Design and the Ecological Imagination
(2021-02-16)
The present historical condition has been characterized by the impasse between two seemingly opposing narratives, one of modernization, mastery, and progress (usually associated to economic growth), and another of ...
Inventing Greenland – Designing an Arctic Nation
(2021-05-18)
Inventing Greenland is a critical and timely assemblage of stories highlighting a shifting landscape—one born from the imagination, projections, and ambitions of a wide range of actors. Today, especially within the design ...
Working in the Fun Palace: Revisiting Kinematics in the Smart Building
(2021-05-24)
Archigram’s playful experiments in kinematic structures were an early precedent to the smart building systems we find commonplace today. Driving techno-utopian visions of moveable spaces in projects like Fun Palace and ...
'Functional Follies' for an Urban Slum
(2021-01-20)
“The challenge for Africa is no less than the restoration of its intellectual freedom and a capacity to create—without which no sovereignty is conceivable.”1
The general attitude toward architecture on the African ...
Crossing Paths: Strategies for the Gowanus Basin
(2021-06-02)
Over the past few centuries, the Gowanus has transformed from natural to pastoral to industrial to post-industrial. Its history is tied to the development of Brooklyn. Once a tidal inlet with orchards and mills, it ...
Fortress Science: The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy
(2021-02-09)
The production of space as an internal condition to the scientific production of knowledge is an under investigated and seldom theorized process within the studies of science, technology, and society (STS), and the spatial ...
De Materia Perspectiva
(2021-05-24)
“I inscribe a quadrangle ... which is considered to be an open window through which I see,” the artist and architect Leon Battista Alberti wrote in his 1425 treatise on perspective. This description surely reminds us of ...