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What are You Reading Right Now? John Hanna, by John Hanna.An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris. Words. John Hanna. An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris. Images. Amélie Dupont & Raymond Mesnildrey. Date: 19 October 1974. Time: 2:00 PM. Location: Tabac Saint-Sulpice.…View →
Closet and Climax, by Joey Lageschaar.Queer Space. by Aaron Betsky. 2. , among other literature, I hypothesised that there were queer roots to be found in the history of Parisian boutiques.…View →
A Lack of Exposure, by Alessandro Rognoni.I recently watched a film called “Rendez-Vous in Paris”, shot in 1996 by Eric Rohmer, where a painter guides a Swedish tourist around Paris. “I like the lack of colours here” the painter tells her as they walk down an alleyway.…View →
Bootleg Paradise, by Tuyen Le.The mainstream US audience, who do not have the financial backing to see the real Eiffel Tower in Paris, can check out a bootleg version of it in Las Vegas, Florida, Paris of Tennessee, and Paris of Texas.…View →
Physical or Intangible?, by Ksenija Onufrijeva.The three buildings – UNESCO Headquarters in Paris (1958), Y-block in Oslo (1969-2020) and the World Trade centre in Riga (1974) – were designed to represent new art of building with "freedom, expressed in a wealth of forms". [1] Even though designed…View →
Talking Spaces, by Federico Ruiz.Paris, May 28, 1968 / Eric Koch, Nationaal Archief. As republics, cities also have taking spaces where more informal kinds of conversation happen. On sidewalks and plazas, we all interact and establish different kinds of dialogue, verbal and not.…View →
Smooth City, by René Boer.You examine important urban transformation projects, from ancient Rome to 19th century Paris, through the lens of smoothness, as projects that have flattened or homogenised the city.…View →
Emotional Space, by Aimee Baars.From left: Sainte Chapelle, Paris / Aimee Baars (2014), Santa Maria Maggiore church, Rome / Aimee Baars (2016), The Statue of Liberty, New York / Unknown author.…View →
The Sweet Moment of Disbelief, by Saartje Nibbering.The Sainte-Chapelle (Paris) is used as setting. #sublime. #beauty. #terror.…View →
By Product, Reversibility, Tangible and Intangible Longevity , by Anouk Fontaine.These factors generate attractiveness, or lack thereof, and thus make the construction admissible for use or reconversion, as shown by the interchangeability between offices and housing in Haussmannian buildings in Paris.…View →
Who do we Design For?, by Jan Pruszynski.He just wanted to go on a holiday and have pictures of himself in front of many well known places, such as the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin or the Eiffel Tower in Paris.…View →
In conversation with David T. van Zanten, by Stef Dingen and David T. van Zanten, Mary Jane Crow.From the Chicago Tribune Tower and the Paris Opera House, to Parc de la Villette and most recently the Guggenheim Helsinki, the public lecture series explored these competitions as opportunities of experimentation.…View →
The Art of the Commute, by Alessandro Rognoni.Belle’ Epoque. in Paris, to the post-war period in New York, to 1960’s Hong Kong; these were moments in which the project of the moving city came to be an interest to public authorities, and to designers.…View →
Olympic Architects, by Edgars Jane.Having waited until the newly introduced format of Olympic Games is stable enough, in front of a select audience of about 60 ‘shot-callers’ in Paris, he declared that “we are to reunite in the bonds of legitimate wedlock a long-divorced couple—Muscle…View →
1 ́000 m² of desire, by Maja Liro .Maison du Plaisir. in Paris. Redoux’s “asylums of libertinage” are no longer public institutions for the moralization of sexual vices, but rather architectures designed to maximise pleasure. The Empire of the Urban Bachelor.…View →
The Paths That We Must Walk, by Chun Kit "CK" Wong.From the experiences I gathered from visiting other tourist attractions in Paris, I had fully expected the Villa to attract large crowds of people as well.…View →
Let's scroll, by Nathan Döding.The, for his time, modern writing style brings festive scenes in Paris to life. In Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway romantically describes his vacation to Pamplona.…View →
Letting Go Of Enemies In Architecture, by Kevin Lai.Victor Hugo, 1831, “This Will Kill That”, Notre-Dame de Paris. ii. Louis Kahn, 1952, Traffic Study project , Philadelphia, PA (Plan of proposed traffic-movement pattern). iii. From some practice experience at design offices. iv.…View →
Pritzker Prize for Escher: revisited, by Szymon Smyk.Interestingly, the precedent to creating dream worlds that could not be fulfilled in material space far exceeds the period of rapid growth of the virtual - from the many examples on the masterplan level, such as Le Corbusier’s plan for Paris and Will…View →
Gordon Matta-Clark: Poetic Anarchy, by Juliette Khoo.As a contributor to the ninth Paris biennale, Matta-Clark was allowed to use two townhouses that would be demolished in a redevelopment of the Les Halles-Plateau Beauborg district.…View →
Interview: The Book and The Building, by Louis Lousberg, Koen Mulder & Christopher Clarkson.architecture, for instance, one of my - well, you couldn’t say hero - but a very interesting architect for me, is Le Corbusier, somehow, I think it’s one of my favourites, well his houses, this book about his houses: I went to his Villa Savoye near Paris…View →