Yale School of Architecture Annual Myriam Bellazoug Lecture April 13 2023 In this talk, I argue that what is at … More
Author: rossexo
I'm an architect, urbanist, historian and educator. I write on the political and historical relations between circulation and urbanization and teach architectural and urban design.
Enclosed Bodies: Locating Cerdá’s Urbanización within Federici’s History of Capitalism
Part of the project ‘On Collaborations: Feminist Histories of Migration’, edited by Anooradah Iyer Siddiqi and Rachel Lee and published … More
On Breath
This text is a reflection I wrote in December of 2020 as a resident blogger in the Austrian Pavilion of … More
Speculative Imperialism in the Age of Natural Violence
Keynote lecture for Platform-Austria hosted at The Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna November 26, 2019 This talk … More
Toward an Anamorphic Architecture: A reflection on teaching the politics of architecture and climate change
The following is a paper I presented in the 2019 annual ACSA conference in Pittsburgh. This paper was part of … More
Friendship-in-ending
This is a small piece I contributed to Friend/Ships, an evening around the idea of friendship as a means of … More
Circulation and Urbanization
My book, Circulation and Urbanization, is now available in print. back cover blurb: Circulation and Urbanization is a foundational investigation into … More
Architecture in a World of Enclosures
This text is a short provocation prepared for a book launch event held at The Storefront for Art and Architecture … More
Infrastructures of Otherwise
A conversation in letters with Ethel Baraona Pohl, César Reyes, Nina Jaeger and myself. This piece was published as part of … More
Urban Design in the Age of Undifferentiated Crisis
Syllabus blurb for advanced seminar in urban design theory and practice, Iowa State University, Spring 2019 URB D 522: Contemporary … More
Circulatory Regimes: Bodies, Spaces, Power
Link (Thanks to Sophia Pia, Tobias and Hunter!)
Tools for a Speculative Imperialism
(Appearing in ED no 2: Architecture of Disaster, May 2018—Thanks to Nicholas Korody and Joanna Kloppenburg!) Shortly before his death … More
Circulation and Urbanization
Below is the full abstract for a public lecture I’ll be giving at Harvard’s GSD on 25 October 2017. See … More
Becoming-Infrastructural
Published in e-flux architecture (part of the Positions project) It is hard to imagine how the many ruptures that have … More
Mare Magnum: Urbanization of Land and Sea
Introduction for pre-publication draft of a book chapter to appear in Peters, Kimberly, Phil Steinberg, Elaine Stratford, eds., 2017, Territory … More
Architecture’s Environmental Complex: A Review of Felicity Scott’s Outlaw Territories
Image from the Architecture Machine Group’s Seek, 1970 Pre-Publication draft; forthcoming in The Journal of Architecture, Vol 22, No. 2 (March … More
Interview with Joshua Johnson, Artists Alliance (Xtrotecture)
“Xtrotecture is project which examines the simultaneous local and global presence of Lower Manhattan in an age of late-capitalism, technological … More
Nomos of the Body
An audio tour contribution for ‘Hesitant desire shall flourish in a soil not too strong‘, a project by Ilona Sagar.
Museum for the Histories of Nature: Toward an Anamorphic Architecture
Studio Brief for ARCH 401, Iowa State University (Fall 2016) Objective Is nature subject to its historicization? What could … More
Landscapes of Post-History
Jeff Wall, Property Line (2015) The following is the text for lecture I gave at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture (3 … More
Response to “Reframing the World as One City”
Looking at five predominant models for depicting urbanization (Global City Network, The World Is Spiky, Urban Age World, Single Planetary … More
The Urban as a Rationality
Introductory remarks for What Is the Urban? Registers of a World Interior Full symposium playlist here.
Architecture of Preservation: On Neoliberal Time
Signing of an agreement with the China Jinmao Holdings Limited and Qingdao High-tech Industrial Development Zone to construct a franchise of … More
Scaleless: Planetary Bodies (LafargeHolcim Forum 2016: ‘Infrastructure Space’)
“Independence for the individual within the home: independence for the home within the urbe: independence for the diverse forms of movement within … More
Symposium Program: What Is the Urban? Registers of a World Interior
Full details, abstracts and expanded program: whatistheurban.org
An Ecology of Bodies
Appearing in the March issue of The Avery Review (print edition here) It may be that, in the near future, we will … More
Infinite Circulation
excerpts from a forthcoming piece for Volume #47: Full text here …If circulation has been a collective ideology, providing truths that … More
Symposium Announcement: What Is the Urban? Registers of a World Interior
Iowa State University, Center for Excellence in Arts and Humanities (CEAH) Symposium, April 4-5, 2016. Full details and free registration at www.whatistheurban.org) What … More
On Territory, Architecture and the Urban
Introduction for a seminar given at the Architectural Association in Diploma 14’s ongoing research on The Architecture of Territory, 16 … More
Illuminated Bodies
(Introduction for a talk to be given at the Royal College of Art’s Architecture Programme, 17 November 2015) It could be … More
Interior: Twelve Points on the Phenomenology of Empire
(Originally appearing in E.R.O.S Journal no. 7, ‘Interior’) Interior is an absolute condition—it both precedes its own construction and defines … More
Technologies of Transparency
Below is the outline for a talk I will give in the Department of Geography, Environment and Society at the University … More
On Utopia
Below is the outline for a talk I will give at the Architectural Association at the invitation of Mark Campbell (intermediate 1), November 23 … More
Early Worlds / Recent Ruins
This studio tasks students to experiment with a new domestic architecture on the site of Parc del Fòrum in Barcelona. We … More
Architectural Machines: The Urbanization of Architecture, 1953-74
(Presented as part of the Summer Design Institute at University of Virginia’s School of Architecture 22 July, 2015) Urban design, as … More
Invisible Machines: Toward a Theory of Interiorization
(to be presented at the coming AHRA conference in Leeds) A range of thinkers have postulated that modernity can be … More
Ubiquitous Law and the Urbanization of the Body
As presented in Thinking Spatial Practices within and against Law at the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research I’d like to … More
Mare Magnum: Urbanization of the sea
First presented as part of a panel, Territory beyond Terra, with Phil Steinberg, Elaine Stratford and Kimberly Peters at the … More
Urbanization Unbound: The architectural anatomy of a world interior
This course postulates that interiorization is a material and spatial condition that can be traced through history. Developing form a … More
Scales of Urban Design
Where does architectural design end and urban design begin? Where does urban design end and regional planning begin? Can architecture alone constitute urban design? Can certain hand-held technologies become central objects of urban design discourse and practice? If urbanization today has become planetary in scale, can we now consider the entire surface of the earth to be the object of urban design?
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