Monthly Archives: November 2009

Architecture as hard work

November 29, 2009 – 9:40 pm

David Chipperfield exhbition at the Design Museum (”Form Matters”, 21 October – 31 January 2010).

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Jaffa Peace House

November 20, 2009 – 2:52 pm

The idea of the Peace House was originally launched by the late Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres. Named after the latter, it’s part of the seafront redevelopment of the mixed city of Jaffa and was designed by Massimiliano Fuksas as a dramatic spacial progression of pale green concrete slabs interspersed by glass panes, which offer [...]

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Suggested reading: “Art and Answerability” by Mikhaïl Bakhtin

November 1, 2009 – 5:36 pm

Bakhtin, M. M. “Art and Answerability.”  Art and Answerability : Early Philosophical Essays. Eds. Michael Holquist and Vadim Liapunov. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.
Art and Answerability, written in 1919, is Mikhail Bakhtin’s first published essay. This early text, written when the author was only 24 years old, is usually recognised as significant for two [...]

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Re-thinking Bon Pastor

November 1, 2009 – 2:13 pm

In a yearning for urban modernization some European cities have been promoting processes of urban intervention and forgetting the existing ways of life and of use of those spaces. Processes of participatory democracy have been reduced to simple information/auscultation not allowing any kind of response to the needs of those who live (and sometime always [...]

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