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Welcome to the sixteenth issue of The Funambulist. Although, as we will see, the topic of this particular volume comes primarily from our frustration regarding the violence of the status quo and, in particular, the way this violence is perpetuated by narratives that claim to be constructed against it, this issue is, I believe, one...

A resolutely political reading of self-built neighborhoods, appropriated architectures, refugee camps, and worker quarters in Morocco, Portugal, Brazil, Palestine, Hong Kong, France, Greece, and Syria.

When I first went to Chandigarh in 2009, I reasonably visited the main buildings designed by Le Corbusier, troubling the urban grid only by the rather conventional tour of Nek Chand’s rock garden. When I came back last month however, I got the opportunity to explore Burail, one of the few villages of Chandigarh, thanks...

It is not the first time -nor it will be the last probably- that I evoke the Kowloon Walled City (see this past article for example) as a Proletarian Fortress which is very interesting to look at as it provides us a historical example of a district which immanently constructed its own form of urbanity....

In this introduction, editor-in-chief and trained-architect Léopold Lambert describes how architecture almost always materializes and enforces the dominant order, but also how the rare exceptions that challenge such an order need to be celebrated as they are attempted to be throughout this issue. Welcome to the 23rd issue of The Funambulist. This magazine is often...

The Funambulist and the Het Nieuwe Instituut present: A Limited-Edition 16-page Supplement to The Funambulist 19 (Sept-Oct. 2018) The Space of Ableism (a treat to all print subscribers and the 100 first person to order the issue in its print version): Paul B. Preciado, “The Architecture of Sex: Three Case Studies Beyond the Panopticon” Editor-in-Chief: Léopold Lambert...

“That’s another thing we’ve learned from your Nation,” said Mein Herr, “map-making. But we’ve carried it much further than you. What do you consider the largest map that would be really useful?” “About six inches to the mile.” “Only six inches!” exclaimed Mein Herr. “We very soon got to six yard to the mile. Then...

 This conversation with Francesca Russello Ammon is built around her book, Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape (2016), which retraces the political history of the bulldozer by the United States during World War II (used in the Pacific War by the SeaBees) and immediately following it in the massive engineering of the U.S. territory...

Article published in The Funambulist 16 (March-April 2018) Proletarian Fortresses. Click here to access the rest of the issue. Please note: all names have been changed to protect the identities of the individuals mentioned in this article. All locations have been maintained to protect the integrity of the analysis. Codrut woke up one morning in late September...