November 21, 2011 – 12:00 pm
Running parallel to the back of each row of townhouses is a long subterranean corridor, cramped, artificially lit but still dark, with pipes and cables running through its length, moisture trickling down its unfinished concrete walls, it’s the mechanical and services spine of the block. Garbage cans are lined up at each door marking the [...]
Now for something a little lighter. A recent trip to Scotland and a wrong turn into a suburb of Edinburgh brought us to this suburban gem, a heroic reminder that yes, a man’s home is indeed his castle. It reminded me I had once thought of posting photos of two similar meaningful roadside architectural attractions [...]
Yesterday the 2011 Bartlett PhD Research Projects conference took place. In the comments period following presentations one question was repeated several times and particularly caught my attention. How did your interest in this topic start? What is the starting point?
It came back to mind after the event concluded because to me it illustrates we might [...]
December 4, 2010 – 10:56 am
Last night Owen Hatherley gave a talk at the UCL occupation in the Jeremy Bentham Room as part of a seminar on ‘Architecture and social change’. I will attempt to summarise the main points in this post and leave the criticism for the comments section.
The broad topic of his talk was campus architecture and the [...]
November 2, 2010 – 12:00 pm
A loose reaction to this post by Patricia Simoes-Aelbrecht and thoughts on assemblage theory.
The dichotomy of public and private is something that has long been criticised in social theory. A common strand through Arendt (1956), Habermas (1962, 1992) and Sennett (1974) is that it is impossible, in Modern society, to speak of a clear boundary [...]
September 10, 2010 – 11:47 am
In the book Participation, Claire Bishop underlines three common aspects of participatory art: the desire to create an active/thinking subject who will be able to formulate their own social/political position from the experience of the work; asserting a socially oriented and egalitarian position for themselves by ceding part of their authorship to participants; and the [...]
cross-posted from barking-assemblage.org
Barking from Without was part of the 2010 Cities Methodologies exhibition and conference organised by the UCL Urban Lab. The exhibition took place at the Slade Research Centre on Woburn Square from 5 to 7 May 2010.
Barking from Without is an interactive installation presenting material from an ongoing case study of the new [...]
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 [...]
Paper presented at the 2009 Anglo-American Conference of Historians “Cities” in London.
You can download the full paper with images here.
INTRODUCTION
What we will look at in the next twenty minutes is a study of three iconic projects in Toronto that were all planned and built between the years 1955 and 2005: City Hall and Nathan Phillips [...]
WHAT: Interdisciplinary conference / call for contributions
WHEN: November 24-26th, 2009
WHERE: ETH Zurich
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: June 30th, 2009
www.henrilefebvre.org
From the website:
Urban Research and Architecture: Beyond Henri Lefebvre
The interdisciplinary conference Urban Research and Architecture: Beyond Henri Lefebvre brings together recent applications of Lefebvre’s theory in order to develop new concepts for the analysis of contemporary processes of urbanization [...]