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John McMorrough Reflects on a Conversation Among Architects
Eavesdropping on Architectural Conversations, or “I’ll Have What They’re Having” A Response to Serious Playfulness Architectural conversations are powerful. In studios and at final reviews, over napkins with clients, or trace paper…
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Serious Playfulness: 6 Young Firms Balancing Experimentation and Pragmatism
“Serious Playfulness” is a conversation among six emerging architecture firms in cities around the world that was by conducted by ARTIFIZI in collaboration with Toronto’s PARTISANS. The exchange took place over email, a…
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The Translation of Dreams by Sumayya Vally & Stephen Steyn
Psychoanalytic and Poetic Devices in South African Architectural Education Sumayya Vally and Stephen Steyn ‘the critique of ideology should not begin with critiquing reality, but with the critique of our dreams.’i There…
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IKEA Disobedients Manifesto by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation
IKEA Disobedients is a response to the world’s most important architectural actor, IKEA, and its promotion of homes as “independent republics” made of comfort and familiarity. Comprising alternative pop-up showrooms around the…
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Dead Life by Michael Young / Young & Ayata
This article was originally published at Sci-Arc Offramp 9. The Still Life has always presented an interesting problem for art criticism. It is both the height of technical skill in painting and…
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Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America by Felipe Correa
This content, originally published in Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America, has been published with permission of the University of Texas Press. Outside the dense urbanism of São Paulo…
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There Is Not Original Work In This Installation by Cristina Goberna & Urtzi Grau
In summer 2011 Fake Industries Architectural Agonism was invited to participate in the exhibition The Street, part of the upcoming Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture. The show,…
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The Expansive and Inclusive Architectural Galaxy of Archive of Affinities
In the era of the Internet every image is an advertisement. Almost every architect contributes to the limitless overabundance offered by social media by sharing instantaneous personal archives, student projects, and…
