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…
VOLUMES - Crisis Formalism
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…