Architectural Universality in the Age of Global Anomie. b+, a case study. With quotes from Olaf Grawert
UNIVERSALITY NOW AND HOW WE GOT PARTICULAR Threats to the security, freedom and dignity of life today from global ecological…
VOLUMES - Crisis Formalism
Architecture versus the Entropic City: An excerpt of a Whatsapp chat.
Scott Cohen: We are talking about the architecture of exceptionalism in the context of what you have called the “entropic city,”…
Race, Property, Rebellion. Cameron Rowland
They remained oblivious to the worlds within worlds that existed just beyond the edge of their awareness and yet were…
Are All Crises Equal? A Conversation with MOS’s Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample
Michael Abel: Currently, the prevailing mindset within the field of architecture centers on crises. But there is a noticeable disconnect between…
Total Warfare. A Conversation with Luigi Alberto Cippini
Michael Abel: First question — how does Volumes begin? Luigi Alberto Cippini: What I tried to do, within my limitations, was to make something…
Polyconceptual Futures: MILLIØNS’. A Conversation with Zeina Koreitem and John May
Michael Abel: I studied and practiced with you in graduate school nearly a decade ago — an experience that shaped…
Almost Nothing
Almost nothing is too much. – Reyner Banham, 19621 It is not uncommon to hear that architecture today has dissolved,…
Repairing Shinjuku
We held a solo exhibition titled “TEIRE / Repair” (2021) at Whitehouse in Shinjuku. The exhibition centered on repairing the…
ANY: Silvery-Grayish Boxes
If cathode ray blue was the color of the “digital,” and millennial pink that of the “post-digital,” with perhaps a…
Forms’ Fall from Utopia
We live in the shadows of forms. Ideas, perfection of realities made through abstraction. Extracting something’s essence through philosophical clinical…
TOWARDS A CYBERSPACIAL URBAN TERRAIN. A Conversation with Rem Koolhaas
Francesco Bonami: Do you still think that Manhattan is the center of the culture of congestion? Rem Koolhaas: It is…
Bayberry Greenhouses: Monumentality and Cropscape
Clouds of mist part in the mountains of Lin’an (临安), China to reveal a fragment of reptilian skin. A mass…
Who Are These People? A Conversation with Kai Althoff
Carlo Antonelli: Who are these people, the ones that populates your works? Kai Althoff: They accumulate. Some return more often…
Participatory Design or Processual Formalism? Frei Otto, the Ökohaus, and the Ökohäusler
My first, fleeting encounter with the Ökohaus (Eco-House) project came during an all too brief visit to Berlin in November…