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Learning from Lagos
in NLR 33, May-June 2005, pp. 37-52
Subjects: Architecture , Nigeria , Cities
Africa’s largest city not as chaotic laboratory of urban form, but end result of a specific historical trajectory. Beyond Koolhaas’s diagrammatic insights, the real context of spiralling debts, kleptocrat elite, infra-structural collapse and burgeoning informal sector as factors in Lagos’s expansion.
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Vanishing Acts
in NLR 27, May-June 2004, pp. 143-150
Subjects: Architecture , Art
Tony Wood on Corinne Diserens, ed., Gordon Matta-Clark. Dissections of architectural space in the 60s and 70s, and their meaning in contemporary criticism. Did Matta-Clark’s disappearing art works leave behind a radical grin?
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Future City
in NLR 21, May-June 2003, pp. 65-79
Subjects: Aesthetics , Architecture
After the dilapidation of urban modernism, what kinds of city and what forms of architecture await us? The author of The Seeds of Time considers their flowers in the dizzying work of Rem Koolhaas, the mega-developments of the Pearl River Delta and the conceptualization of ‘Junkspace’. Breaking back into history with a battering-ram of the postmodern?
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Postcards from Palestine
in NLR 17, September-October 2002, pp. 150-157
Subjects: Architecture , Palestine/Israel
Gabriel Piterberg on Daniel Monk, An Aesthetic Occupation. Imaginations of the Dome of the Rock and Wailing Wall under the British Mandate, and their political decontextualization today.
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Situationists and Architecture
in NLR 8, March-April 2001, pp. 123-139
Subjects: Architecture
How dreams of unitary urbanism that would confound Le Corbusier could be a summons to social revolution. The Situationist ideas of dérive and détournement as gypsy principles of chance and larceny in the imagination of a utopian space. Inspirations from Neuschwanstein to the Watts riots, visions from Constant’s helicoptered nomads to Jorn’s ceramic garden.
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Spatial Responsibility
in NLR I/19, March-April 1963, pp. 95-96
Subjects: Architecture
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Architecture or Technology?
in NLR I/11, September-October 1961, pp. 58-60
Subjects: Architecture
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Churchill Gardens
in NLR I/10, July-August 1961, pp. 55-59
Subjects: Architecture
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Time-Life Architecture
in NLR I/9, May-June 1961, pp. 66-67
Subjects: Architecture
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Which Machine Age?
in NLR I/7, January-February 1961, pp. 58-58
Subjects: Architecture
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