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Tools of the trade
Architectural theory is often considered a process of writing (and often denigrated as a result), but the production of architectural thought always engaged other tools of expression besides quill,...
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Economies of Architectural Thought
Probably all of us who work in the architectural HTC area have heard stories about how architectural thought–particularly architectural theory–increases in times of economic hardship. When the...
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Surfing – 1
A few days ago I looked at new posts on some of the most popular architecture blogs, and I left wondering why the overall mood of these blogs is so consistent when the particular content of them is...
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Erasing historical events
{Above, David Copperfield makes the Statue of Liberty disappear] While some of my very favorite texty types are predicting the future, we might reflect on our more traditional role as commentators on...
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22 For 44: A (Presidential) Primer
This will sound a bit grandiose; but it was a fun exercise: I was putting together readings for this semester’s classes while also examining the UK Royal Collection of architectural theory. The Royal...
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AA…A+
News item….You must see the latest issue of the Architectural Association journal — AA Files 57. Not only does it have excellent articles by — most-favored-historian-status types — Mitchell Schwarzer...
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PDFs of Recent Articles
Immediately to the right, I have put permanent links to some of my recent print essays and articles. This is just a small portion of my material circulating “out there;” and, as contracts permit, I’ll...
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Announcements
Thank you to Metropolis, Pruned, and BldgBlog for covering/linking the Urban Ice Core/Indoor Air Archive project this past week. I appreciate all the new visitors. I always think of the immensely...
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Architecture fiction — a short review of a young concept
Installation by Los Carpinteros at the Hayward Gallery, London I am intrigued by the recent coinage “architecture fiction.” If you don’t know the term, you can read a little about the idea here, here...
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The Cover of My Book
My forthcoming book — Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments — is now in production with the good people at Princeton Architectural Press. It will be out in about six months. Subnature examines...
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Architectural Non-fiction
As the architectural journal Assemblage approached its end, the so-called “theoretical turn” — promoted by authors within Assemblage and in its parent journal Oppositions — came to a cross roads. One...
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“Historical Practice”
“Historical Practice” was the driving theme of my presentation at Storefront for Art and Architecture’s Postopolis! LA. I spoke on Wednesday, April 1st; stuck around to hear extremely interesting...
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11 Points on Subnature
Yesterday, I presented some notes and images from my forthcoming book Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments at the CCA/Stanford conference “Rising Tide: The Arts and Ecological Ethics.” Here...
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The Immediate Present
I just finished reading Anthony Vidler’s Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism; it’s his examination of the historiographical techniques of Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe,...
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Fiction’s Genealogy
I was putting together drafts of syllabi, and I kept coming across the term “fiction” in specific writings of architectural theory. As frequent readers of this and many other sites know, the term...
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Out of the frying pan…
Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments goes to press next week. I can confidently say that it’s going to be one of the most provocative books in the “nature” section of your...
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Ephemera
I recently received my copy of Sean Lally’s Energies issue of AD. Sean invited me to contribute an essay that explores some of the recent experimental historical work I completed these past few years,...
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Anvironment: An experimental history project
[To be expanded for a forthcoming article] If a stable, humidity, temperature, dust, and pest controlled environment is the ideal setting for preserving historical material, could we produce the...
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Genesis Wave
The terraforming device from Star Trek II — “The Genesis Device” — is a bomb that completely remakes the surface of a planet into a biological and geological version of the earth. It’s like a nuclear...
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Reconstruction as Agitation
This post spins out of a talk I gave recently; a question I dodged a bit at the end of the talk; and considering it’s content, it’s also a great way to celebrate this site’s first anniversary! I often...
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