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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?