Video lecture presented in the Swiss Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, 2014. Invitation by Aristide Antonas.
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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.
Lefebvre and Urbanization
First appeared in Society and Space Without a doubt, Henri Lefebvre’s work is seductive. He was the first person to … More
Precarious Exterior: Emptiness in a Spaceless Universe
(Workshop conducted at University of Thessaly, Volos, with Aristide Antonas) Emptiness within city centers today has become something of a … More
The Burden of the Present: On the concept of urbanisation
First appearing in Society and Space Republished in urbanNext.net To interrogate the relation between governmental practices and the slew of … More
Circulation Unbound: Technologies of territory and the birth of the urban
Presented at Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography: Politics, Spaces, Imaginations, 28-29 November 2013 This paper speculates on the historical emergence of … More
Natura Urbans, Natura Urbanata: ecological urbanism, circulation and the immunization of nature
First published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 32 (eds. Bruce Braun and Stephanie Wakefield) In February … More
Private Property, Urbanisation and the Territorialisation of Debt
First appearing in Real Estates: Life without Debt Life and property, being and having, person and thing are pressed up together … More
Habitat for homo-œconomicus
The Habitat of Homo Œconomicus, image for a diorama, ‘The Competitive Hypothesis’ curated by Adrian Lahoud with Thinkspace, Storefront for Art … More
Circulation and Sovereignty: A political ontology of urbanization
Public lecture at the Architectural Association
Foreground, Background, Drama: The cinematic space of Le Mépris
André Bazin once wrote about cinema that “[o]ur experience of space is the structural basis for our concept of the … More
Longing for a Greener Present: Neoliberalism and the eco-city
As published in Radical Philosophy 163 A version of this also appeared in Architectural Review Asia Pacific (Australian Design Review) and Arch Daily … More
Approaching the End: Eden and the catastrophe to come
First appeared in Log 19 I once knew a madman who thought the end of the world had come. … More
