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