The Third Condition “Above” Architectural Theory, No Apologies Dualities define the political, social and cultural landscapes of our time. Whether in the form of the two-party duopoly, the nature of …
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Thriving Together Symposium Keynote
Thriving Together Symposium San Antonio is growing and transforming as a city While the city is currently the fastest growing in the nation it is also ranked among the nation’s …
Transitioning Natures: Robert Schuller’s Garden Grove Experiment
The world interior of capital is not an agora or a trade fair beneath the open sky, but rather a hot house that has drawn inwards everything that was once …
What is the Urban? Registers of a World Interior at the Center for Excellence in Arts and Humanities Symposium at Iowa State University
Weltbauen: Territory and the Architectural Imaginary The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers the world.1 Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich …
Mediterranean Frontiers: Ontology of a Bounded Space in Crisis
So where are we when we are in a small interior? In which way can a world, its opening to boundlessness notwithstanding, be an intimately divided global sphere? Where are …
Framing Urbanism at the Chicago Architectural Foundation
FACTICITY Facticity is a term first used by philosopher, Johann Fichte. The term refers to facts and factuality that both express limitations and conditions of freedom. It’s meaning is so …
Parallax: Home Between 1963 and 2014
Published in DOMA Volume 0, Kino-Oko Publishers, Skopje, Macedonia, May 2010 “Some company recently was interested in buying my aura. They didn’t want my product. They kept saying, “We want …
Foam City: About Urban Spatial Multitudes
Peter Sloterdijk Translated from the German by Antonio Petrov Sloterdijk, P. (2007). “Foam City: About Urban Multitudes.” New Geographies(0): 151. In looking at assembly architectures, the topological particularities of modern …