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Dust and Data is out!
The fabulous architecture theorist and thinker Ines Weizman has edited the book “Dust and Data” that brings together a range of great authors and think pieces that scratch the Bauhaus, but really, address a series of urgent topics through architecture and its makers, users, maintainers and constructors. I have written a chapter on the Meisterhäuser […]
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Lecture at Nottingham Contemporary
Last week our collaborative Radical Pedagogies was invited to speak at the conference Architectures of Education at Nottingham Contemporary. I discussed the question of radicality and institutionalism with some of the amazing case studies from the project. Schools as site for architecture, architecture as site for education, and both as means toward change remain very […]
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Disappearing Subjects and Material Objects – Part II
As a child I tried to find out how to become invisible. Watching a fly and being unable to catch it, I tried to convince myself that if I could only move fast enough, I would be invisible. Invisible to the perception of a certain subject, of course—while objects would remain stable. Wouldn’t they? This dichotomy […]
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Disappearing Subjects and Material Objects
As I am writing away on my dissertation, I stumbled across my old projects from the MSAAD days at Columbia in 2008/2009. The question of the subject and the object, and how they are both constructed and made to disappear is central in my work. Here is a sampling from some visual experiments I made […]
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Things that happen in the Margins of Academic CV’s (aka “Life”)
I haven’t written anything here in a long time. Over a year, to be precise, and while I have been online a lot (a LOT) during that year, I have spent most energy offline: life happened. And it is precisely here where where life happens: in the spaces for productivity that remain temporarily empty. The […]
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Radical Pedagogies at the Venice Biennale
Our collaborative research Radical Pedagogies has been awarded a Special Mention for contributing to the section Monditalia at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, directed by Rem Koolhaas! The Motivation by the Jury of the Biennale Awards: For the Monditalia section A Special mention goes to Radical Pedagogies: ACTION-REACTION-INTERACTION The project […]
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Wing it: give your Macbook Air finally its wings! (Read: a new SSD by OWC)
The Problem: Macbook Air (late 2010) with only 64GB When I bought my Macbook Air in late 2010, I thought I would use it as a portable typewriter, hence would not need a big hard drive (or rather, solid state drive). I went for the 64gb model, and with Dropbox and its select sync function […]
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Roadtripping – and which apps save your sanity
This is a bit belated, but in January it seems like a bit of holiday reporting might fight the new year’s depression. Hence: I went on a road trip (last year). The second half, so to speak, since I drove from New York to Chicago and back a few years ago. Now I drove from […]
Crunch Time – and how to survive it.
So I had this paper due. Well, let’s be honest: overdue. For the third time overdue. Hence, this time it really HAD to get done. Since I spent the weekend in Freiburg on Family business (with no work getting done), it was down to Monday and Tuesday, and I was scared. More precisely: panicked. But […]
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Learning by the Book (BJHS Themes)