Douglas Spencer: Still Dreaming? Space After Spectacle and the Indifference of Architecture Susan Buck-Morss, in her Dreamworld and Catastrophe, observed that the end of the Cold War was marked by the passing of the dream-forms of modernity — capitalist, socialist and fascist — as sustained […]
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Call for Papers: TRANSLOCAL#1 (Trans)Locality & Urban Cultures – Deadline 10th November
CALL FOR PAPERS TRANSLOCAL #1 (TRANS)LOCALITY & URBAN CULTURES Deadline for submissions: 10 NOVEMBER 2017 Cosmopolitanism without provincialism is empty, provincialism without cosmopolitanism is blind. (Ulrich Beck, Cosmopolitan Vision) Translocality draws attention to multiplying forms of mobility without losing sight of the importance of localities […]
OPEN2017: The Future of Architecture _ Part 1/2
This blurry shot through the window of our 5th floor studio captured the beginning of the long anticipated OPEN2017; the end to an intense and productive year, and for many the beginning of a new chapter, be it in their professional or academic lives. Running as a part of London […]