COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY [New York City]
THE FUNAMBULIST
The Funambulist is a daily architectural platform edited by Léopold Lambert.Its name is inspired by a reflection on the line as the architect's medium. In fact, this line on the white page that ends up spliting two milieus from one another, controls the access of the bodies. The act of walking on the line (funambulist is another word for tight-rope walker) thus becomes an act of freedom. It also refers to Philippe Petit crossing illegally the space between the two towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 and the funambulist in Nietzsche's Zarathoustra who dies peacefully as he died from the danger he dedicated his life to.
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- 08 / Lucy Finchett-Maddock /// Entropy, Law and Funambulism
- 09/ Maryam Monalisa Gharavi /// Becoming Fugitive: Carceral Space and Rancierean Politics
- 10/ Eduardo McIntosh /// Bread and Circus: Agorae vs Arenas
- 11/ Carla Leitão /// Pet Architecture: Human’s Best Friend
- 12 / Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu /// Motion Architecture: Breakfast in a Scramjet’s Combustion Chamber
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- 14/ Morgan Ng /// The Textual-Sonic Landscapes of Jacques Perret’s Des Fortifications et Artifices
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- 29/ Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos /// The Funambulist Atmosphere
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