Keynote lecture for Platform-Austria hosted at The Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna November 26, 2019 This talk … More
Tag: urban design
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
The Urban as a Rationality
Introductory remarks for What Is the Urban? Registers of a World Interior Full symposium playlist here.
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
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
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
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?
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
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