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# POLITICS /// NYPD, Airflow & Chemical Attack (testing): The City as a...
Wind map of the US North East (detail of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York & Connecticut). Map modified by the author based on the wind patterns/data of the fantastic wind project by Hint.fm....
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# PALESTINE /// For a more Incarnate Vision of the Occupation: The Israeli...
Israeli settlement of Rimmonim on the road from Ramallah to Jericho I am not quite sure to know the reasons that made me take so much time to write this article, three years after my last trip in...
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# HISTORY /// Quadrillage: Urban Plague Quarantine & Retro-Medieval Boston
The recent manhunt of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Boston was probably quite shocking to many non-Americans – and probably some Americans too -, for the anachronism it constituted. The latter was caused by...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// Designing Volumes of Energy: A Materialist...
Destruction of the Glencairn Tower in Motherwell (near Glasgow) / Photograph by Sam Hardie Explosions are so ubiquitous in Hollywood Cinema, and the emotion is so intense when one torn-down reality...
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# LEGAL THEORY /// Architecture and the Law: An Epistolary Conversation with...
The immanent domain (see third letter) – Dharavi in Mumbai / Photograph by Léopold Lambert (2009) FIRST LETTER (New York on July 12th 2012) /// Dear Lucy, I read your essay Archiving Burroughs:...
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# LEGAL THEORY /// The Space beyond the Walls: Defensive “a-legal” Sanctuaries
The space beyond the walls: Defensive “a-legal” sanctuaries (originally written for the Wheelwright Prize – failed) Considered purely in the abstract, the law appears to be a tool which makes strict...
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# PALESTINE /// The Right to the Ruin: Civilizational Absence in the...
What is wrong with these pictures? Start maybe by looking at them all. The landscapes that they show are beautiful and seem to be almost untouched by humans. The problem is that they are taken where...
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# HISTORY /// Constructed Truth Discourses Archaeology: Revising Histories by...
Aarhus-based architect James Martin was kind enough to share with me the small book he created (with the help of my friends Ben Clement and Sebastian de la Cour) around, what I would call, an...
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# LIBERTY SQUARE /// Occupy Gezi: The Reason why Politicians are so Afraid of...
A Body of Gezi Park. 31 May 2013. From Yücel Tunca via Nar Photos. For the last five days, the small park of Gezi near Taksim square in Istanbul has been occupied by dozens of thousands of people...
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# FUNAMBULISTS /// Designing Gravity: Five Young Designers and the Body...
Prosthetic Aesthetics by Lawrence Lek (2012) Today I want to talk (once again) about the body and its relationship to design by presenting five young (four of them are less than 30 years old) designers...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAMPHLETS /// Volume 02: FOUCAULT Now Published
The second volume of The Funambulist Pamphlets that gathers past articles of the blog, is now officially published by Punctum Books in collaboration with the Center for Transformative Media at Parsons...
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# TOPIE IMPITOYABLE /// New Archive About the Philosophical and Political Body
It has been a while now that I am accumulating articles that address the philosophical or/and political dimension of the human (and sometimes non-human) body. I decided therefore to add one “category”...
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# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// Power of the Lines – Lines of Power
Power of the Lines – Lines of Power /// text originally written in French for the 2012 issue of the journal of ETH Zurich, Trans entitled Stance (thank you to Stéphanie Savio). My apologies for the...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// Designing a Prison, or Not Designing a Prison....
Winning entry of the New State Danish Prison by C. F. Møller Architects (2010) Thanks to my friends Mariabruna and Fosco (Microcities/Socks), I got to learn that the French department of justice,...
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# FUNAMBULIST PAMPHLETS /// Volume 04: Legal Theory Now Published
The fourth volume of The Funambulist Pamphlets that gathers and edits past articles of the blog about Legal Theory, is now officially published by Punctum Books in collaboration with the Center for...
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# SPINOZA /// The Reciprocity of Violence: The Butter Also Affects the Knife
I realize that I always write about the violence unfolded by architecture’s physicality on the bodies. However, there is a more or less implicit corollary to this affirmation that can be sometimes...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAMPHLETS /// Volume 05: Occupy Wall Street Now Published
The fifth volume of The Funambulist Pamphlets that gathers and edits past articles (as well as additional photographs) of the blog about Occupy Wall Street, is now officially published by Punctum...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// What Do We Find in the Thickness of a Line?
Juggling on the Berlin Wall / Photograph by Yann Forget It has now been three months that I have the chance to write a monthly carte blanche column in Swiss architectural journal Tracés entitled Le...
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# FUNAMBULISTS /// Sympathy With the Obstacle in the Gaza Strip
I am aware of the fact that I already wrote a very similar article (same topic, same reference) a bit less than three years ago. Yet, with the forthcoming sixth volume of The Funambulist Pamphlets...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// The Architectural Drawings as Military and...
Former American Embassy of Karachi by Richard Neutra & Robert Alexander It happens rather often that architecture offices have to hold on their documents and drawings for a while as the client...
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