Notes from the Resilient City

First appeared in Log 32 In June 2013, Michael Bloomberg, then mayor of New York City, announced an ambitious initiative … More

Circulation and Making the World Urban

Course Description: Architectural discourse lacks a language with which to speak about the urban. It lacks a history through which … More

The Architecture of the High-Rise: Global Circulations and the Urbanization of Panama City

ARCH 401, Fall 2014 Studio Brief Problem The modern history of Panama is dominated by circulation. From the Spanish colonial … More

The Thousand Machines of Cedric Price

Video lecture presented in the Swiss Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, 2014. Invitation by Aristide Antonas.

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