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# BOOKS /// (Archi)polizines: A new Paradigm May 19th 2012 14:07
The following text was curated by Mexican magazine Arquine and is therefore available in a Spanish version on its website. The exhibition Archizines is currently visible at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City and touring in … Continue reading
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# PHILOSOPHY /// To Have Done with the Massacre of the Body by Félix Guattari May 17th 2012 12:27
Félix Guattari as photographed by Olivier Garros Regularly, I evoke my will to make this blog, non only a (not-so) daily (anymore) platform of expression for my reflective peregrinations, but also an archive of documents which constitute as many tools … Continue reading
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# PHILOSOPHY /// Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium’s Book May 15th 2012 03:43
Cover of Leper Creativity by Perry Hall: Sound Drawing 07-04 (2007) Invention is the transposition of one phase state to another, of one resonance on top of another, and it expresses therefore the deep recomposability, indeed deep recomputability, of worldly … Continue reading
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# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture May 12th 2012 18:08
Breathing Room by Kayt Brumder (2009) / Excerpt from Imperfect Health Before starting this article, I would like to say that I am well aware that what might distinguish this blog from others is the fact that architecture is only … Continue reading
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# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// Decartes versus Spinoza: A Personal Reading of Tarp Not Nature May 11th 2012 02:51
Last Friday, the journal of Pratt Graduate School of Architecture’s students released its third issue in this format. This year’s volume gathers a certain amount of well known thinkers and designers (Catherine Ingraham, Ed Keller, David Gissen, Sandford Kwinter, Alisa … Continue reading
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# GUEST WRITERS ESSAYS 27 /// Apian Semantics by Matthew Clements May 09th 2012 02:27
This week’s guest writer is Matthew Clements who is a PhD candidate at the fantastic London Consortium which gathers the very rich resources of the Architectural Association, Birkbeck College (University of London), the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Science Museum and … Continue reading
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# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// The Architecture of Failure by Douglas Murphy May 05th 2012 21:08
The book The Architecture of Failure (Winchester: Zero Books, 2012) written by Douglas Murphy is a reading of architecture history from Crystal Palace (1851) to our contemporary ‘parametricism’ through a very corrosive filter as the title could suggest. However, what … Continue reading
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# MUSIC /// Sonic Youth Interlude: Small Flowers Crack Concrete May 03rd 2012 01:56
May Day 2012 at Wall Street / Photograph by the author Small Flowers Crack Concrete by Sonic Youth NYC Ghosts & Flowers (2000) Small flowers crack concrete Narcotic squads sweep thru poet dens Spilling coffe grabbing 15 yr old … Continue reading
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# ARCHITECTURES WITHOUT ARCHITECTS /// Learning from… Hong Kong: Rufina Wu and Stefan Canham May 02nd 2012 03:37
Rufina Wu and Stefan Canham. Portraits from Above: Hong Kong’s Informal Rooftop Communities. Berlin: Peperoni, 2008. Those of you who know a bit about the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal are probably aware of the existence of a lecture … Continue reading
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# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// A Subversive Approach to the Ideal Normatized Body Apr 29th 2012 22:30
Body Measurements by Henry Dreyfuss Associates. MIT Press, 1974. A year ago, I wrote an article which was exploring how the modernist theories had implemented the ideology of what I called an ideal normative body. In a nutshell, this oxymoron … Continue reading