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Layered Drawings : Architectural Screens/Modulations of Translucency Space Between People How the virtual changes physical architecture Stephan Doesinger This book shows how the virtual has completely changed the physical world around us. If architecture is the construction of space between people, what happens when that space exists in a virtual world? That question is the…

Working Drawings : Spatial Agency/refigurations on the everyday possibilities between movements and social space The Making/Production of Space We All Make Space/The Social Production of Possibility Space and the Social becomes Spatial Agency (a continuity of action and occupation) Life Drawings : The nature of minor everyday movements/narratives. Becoming responsive and flexible with materials to…

MATERIAL MATTERS : STRANGE TOOLS AND THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY STRANGE TOOLS ART and HUMAN NATURE ALVA  NOE THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY DAVID HARVEY As David Harvey argues in his seminal Condition of Postmodernity, architecture becomes one of the aestheticised products by which global capitalism and political regimes express themselves. It is with this realisation…

Acts of Drawing/Derrida : Becomings through immaterial, memory and blindness  JACQUES DERRIDA THE SCEPTICISM OF DRAWING: Jacques Derrida in 1993 wrote an extensive text to accompany an exhibition of paintings from the Louvre. This text titled Memoirs of the Blind, The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins contains within it some particular references to “Pliny’s Origins of…

Friday, 11 June 2021 Oscar Tuazon “See Through” : Working Spatial Forms/Windows Oscar Tuazon “See Through” Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to present “See Through,” the gallery’s third solo-exhibition featuring new works by the Los Angeles-based artist Oscar Tuazon. Oscar Tuazon‘s sculptural oeuvre is situated at the border of art, architecture and technology. His large-scale…

Thursday, 10 June 2021 Gathering Energies/Planetary Movements/Reveries on Reverie : Blue Drawing 9549 Presentation Slide,  The Architecture of Continuity : Lars Spuybroek, essays and conversations. Rotterdam 2008. The Poetics of Memory “The Cinema of Robert Lepage : Alexsander Dundjerovic. London 2003. Spatiality : Robert T. Tally Jr. London 2013. The Poetics of Reverie “Childhood, Language,…

Wednesday, 9 June 2021 Drawing/Openings and Conclusions/Collages for the Reading Room : Heuristic/Discursive/Practical/Agency Ordinary things contain the deepest mysteries On the horizon, then, at the furthest edge of the possible, it is a matter of producing the space of the human species-the collective (generic) work of the species-on the model of what used to be…

Other ways, other than buildings of making : Reading Rooms/Performative Collages and Models Spatial Agency : Other ways of thinking about social space and its architectural structuring. Other ways, other than buildings of making a spatial difference. Collage and Architecture. Jennifer A. E. Shields Collage Methodologies in Architectural Analysis + Design Architecture as Collage Social…

Tuesday, 8 June 2021 Painting/Abstraction/Assemblage/Beyond Discourse : Architectural Plan/ Library/Victorian Corset/Blueprint/Spatial Frame Postmodernity is no more than ‘modernity’ without illusions Zygmunt Bauman We are less interested in whether we are living in a critical or post-critical era, because these terms circle round each other. Indeed, it is the fate of all ‘post’ terms (postmodern, post-critical,…

Sunday, 6 June 2021 Spatial Agency/The Arts and the dance of thinking : The body is open to the intensities of the present. BIOSPHERE And all of our thinking, for its part, forms its own ecosystem as well. Mind is an ecological phenomenon, the result of a collective dance. Gregory Bateson was fascinated by the…