Keynote lecture for Platform-Austria hosted at The Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna November 26, 2019 This talk … More
Tag: climate change
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
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
Becoming-Infrastructural
Published in e-flux architecture (part of the Positions project) It is hard to imagine how the many ruptures that have … 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
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
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
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
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
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