by Lina Grigaitis At my previous firm, I worked on a massive government-funded project until the funding for the project was suddenly frozen and my position eliminated overnight. Fortunately, the timing was good since I was about to get married and planning to start a family. Around this time, I began to search within myselfRead More
review name : multitudes43 issue theme : Wikileaks_Roms_Devinirs Métropoles_Vert Iran_Iconoclasistas language : French issue price : 15Euros size : A5 web : multitudes.samizdat.net multitudes is a quarterly publication that looks at art, politics and culture run by an independent collective of journalists, academics and artists. Each issues is structured around thematic questionsRead More
par Marc-Emmanuel Privat Réorganiser l’espace ou le désordre au secours des militaires. L’espace et son organisation sont des notions qui parlent à l’architecte et à l’urbaniste. Elles appartiennent également au registre militaire : le chef militaire doit en tirer le meilleur parti pour prendre l’ascendant sur son adversaire. François Géré1 en donne la définition suivanteRead More
In his essay “Objective Literature: Alain Robbe-Grillet,” Roland Barthes writes of Robbe-Grillet’s proclivity for the surface of things. Barthes sees in the author’s descriptions of objects — optically exacting, geometrically precise, fastidious descriptions — a transformation that empties them of psychological or metaphysical meaning, forcing instead a direct apprehension of things as they are. ForRead More
blog : UrbanTick whois : Fabian Neuhaus keywords : cycle studies, urbanism, mapping, graphic visualisation whatis : Neuhaus is a researcher at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. His blog looks at “cycle studies” or “habits and rhythms as they occur in most citizens’ lifes” and at intersections between mapping procedures,Read More
by Clara AVRIL, Melinda COHEN and Alice RAYMOND Our project is a performing system that collects rainwater. Each branch of the system on the facade is inclined according to a certain degree that assures the control of water and its redistribution in the apartment building. The various uses require no filtering (toilet,dishwasher,housework…). Clara AVRIL, Melinda COHEN and Alice RAYMOND areRead More
by Ioanna Angelidou In the decades after the second World War, Tokyo became a paradigm of accelerating modernization and urbanization. The system of overlapping historic urban layers that characterized its earlier development were unable to accommodate the unexpected, out of scale expansion brought on by Japan’s transformation into a global economic superpower. Tokyo itself grewRead More
Where : Gallerie Yvon Lambert, Paris When : until January 15, 2011 What : Louise Lawler, a New York artist, has a new set of photographic works in Paris. Best known for questioning the nature of the art object through context specific photographs of fine art, the current exhibition has its origins in the Christie’sRead More
Dans les groupes de recherche, des collaborations et des équipes émergentes, les questions géo-politiques sont devenues un territoire de la pensée architecturale et urbaine. Les forums tels que le Perpetual Peace Project ont réuni des équipes inter-disciplinaires pour discuter des conditions pour la résolution des conflits. Le programme de Conflict in Cities à l’Université deRead More
As part of the call for submissions on Disorder, le Journal Spéciale’Z invites readers to submit photos of their workspaces. My Disordered Desk is inspired by the office of David Sarkisyan, the director of Moscow’s Schusev State Museum of Architecture who passed away in early 2010. Sarkisyan’s workspace was a microcosm of his engagement with both Moscow’s architecturalRead More
Le Journal Spéciale Z est un regard critique sur l'architecture dans un sens très large. Les réactions aux thématiques proposées chaque mois, sont mises en ligne et apparaitront dans deux publications annuelles.