Colonial Remnants of the Urban Present

Yale School of Architecture Annual Myriam Bellazoug Lecture April 13 2023 In this talk, I argue that what is at … More

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

Speculative Imperialism in the Age of Natural Violence

Keynote lecture for Platform-Austria hosted at The Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna November 26, 2019 This talk … 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

Circulatory Regimes: Bodies, Spaces, Power

Link (Thanks to Sophia Pia, Tobias and Hunter!)

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

Becoming-Infrastructural

Published in e-flux architecture (part of the Positions project) It is hard to imagine how the many ruptures that have … More

Mare Magnum: Urbanization of Land and Sea

Introduction for pre-publication draft of a book chapter to appear in Peters, Kimberly, Phil Steinberg, Elaine Stratford, eds., 2017, Territory … More

Nomos of the Body

An audio tour contribution for ‘Hesitant desire shall flourish in a soil not too strong‘, a project by Ilona Sagar.

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

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

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

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

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

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?