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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// Architecture for Profits Optimization: The...
The newspaper The Independent recently released an article about the strategical layout of supermarkets. It is well known that nothing is really innocent in order to optimize the profits, but here the...
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# GUEST WRITERS ESSAYS 37 /// Bodies at Scene: Architecture as Friction by...
Today’s guest writer is Pedro Hernández who, along with people like Ethel Baraona Pohl, Cesar Reyes, Daniel Fernández Pascual, Mariabruna Fabrizi, Fosco Lucarelli and some more people spread in few...
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# PALESTINE /// Political Geography of the Gaza Strip: A Territory of...
Map of the Gaza Strip (Dec 2011) /// United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs in Occupied Palestinian Territory I think that many of us are infuriated in front of the unfolding new...
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# PALESTINE /// Representation of the Otherness for a Gaza kid
IDF Soldiers in front of a ‘flock’ of militarized Bulldozers Caterpillar D9 I apologize to those of my readers who would like to come back to a bigger diversity of articles but, to be honest, I can not...
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# GUEST WRITERS ESSAYS 38 /// Natura Non Facit Saltum: On the concept of...
OYSTER- TECTURE | © SCAPE Studio, 2010 Today’s guest writer is Annick Labeca, polyglot (!), editor of Urban Lab Global Cities, and great follower of the Funambulist. In this text entitled Natura Non...
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# PALESTINE /// Architectural Stockholm Syndrome
Israeli Settlement of Kokhav Ya’akov / New Palestinian Housing Complex (both near Ramallah) /// Photographs by Léopold Lambert I wrote many times about the numerous Israeli settlements in the West Bank...
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# HISTORY /// Reimagining Recreation by James Trainor in Cabinet 45 about Games
One of the last issues of the excellent Brooklyn-based magazine Cabinet was dedicated to the notion of game. The dossier itself, is very interesting, but I was particularly curious about the first...
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# BOOKS /// The Book of Games
Playground Proposal by Isamu Noguchi (excerpt from The Book of Games) First of all, I apologize for this absence, I am hoping to engage with interesting series of article soon but, in order to start...
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# PALESTINE /// The Reasons of Disobeying a Law
Earlier this week, a group of about 250 Palestinians gathered in East Jerusalem in the E1 Area where the Israeli government announced the construction of 3,000 new housing units after the recent UN...
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# CRUEL DESIGNS /// Carceral Treadmill
The prospects for the section cruel designs continues with, once again, a carceral invention from the 19th century: a treadmill for prisoners as a disciplinary apparatus. JF Ptak Science Books’...
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# MILITARIZED ARCHITECTURES /// The Contemporaneous Castles of the post-2001 Era
Do not let the fancy renderings of the winning entry for the new American Embassy in London mislead you, what you see is nothing else than the contemporaneous version of the Middle Age castle. The...
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# BOOKS /// Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence published...
I apologize to those of my readers who would reasonably see this article as a form of self-promotion, this will be the first and only post about this book. Following the research I undertook in 2010...
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# ARAKAWA/GINS /// The counter-biopolitical Bioscleave Experiment as imagined...
The interior domestic terrain of the Bioscleave House by Arakawa + Gins As I recently started a whole section of the blog’s archives dedicated to the work of Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins, I will...
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# LAW /// Architecture and the Law: In Context Series for Mas Context
Mas Context just released the new episode of their series In Context, that asks one of their reader (myself in that case) to pick five articles of the previous issues and join them in a short...
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# CINEMA /// …Would Have Been My Last Complaint
A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to have access to the short film “…Would Have Been My Last Complaint” created by Camille Lacadée (see her guest writer essay as an inventory for this project)...
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# SPINOZA /// Episode 7: Applied Spinozism: Architectures of the Sky vs....
Architecture of the Sky (Milan Trade Fair Building by Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas) versus Architecture of the Earth (Japanese playground photographed by Munemi Natsu) This article will be somehow...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// The Eastern State Penitentiary Panopticon: The...
The panopticon in its totality / assembled photographs by Léopold Lambert Last week, I had the opportunity to visit the former Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. The building is particular as...
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# CRUEL DESIGNS /// Innocent Stair ? The Killing Steps of the Mayans
We continue today to explore the “cruel designs” that collects each piece of architecture or objects that have been specifically designed to assess a hurtful power upon the body. Many people know the...
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# ARAKAWA/GINS /// Architecture of the Conatus: “Tentative Construting...
Ubiquitous Site – Nagi Ryoanji by Arakawa + Gins (1994) “If persons are sited, why do philosophers inquiring into what constitutes a person, or, for that matter, into the nature of mind, rarely, if...
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# ARAKAWA/GINS /// Reversible Destiny Loft in Action: A Tentative Report from...
Reversible Destiny (Mitaka) Lofts – In Memory of Helen Keller /// Photograph by Shingo Tsuji (2013) When I visited the Reversible Destiny Foundation‘s Mitaka Lofts (see previous article) in Tokyo last...
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