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As I wrote in a previous post, I was lucky enough to be included in LOG 25 Reclaim Resi[lience]stance, edited by Cynthia Davidson and curated by François Roche. My essay consisted in a historical philosophical interpretation of the two very specific architectures that are the barricade and the tunnel. As said in the text, the...

In an old article about the notion of urbicide, I was introducing some ideas developed by Eyal Weizman in one of his lectures entitled Forensic Architecture. In the latter, he was calling for an approach of the international law based on architectural evidences. This approach corresponds to a current integration of building science in the...

The Palestinian Archipelago: Salfit (drawn by the author) Léopold Lambert – New York on Feb 1, 2012 If you enjoy articles of the blog, have a look at The Funambulist Magazine! I recently had the chance to write a short article for the Mexican magazine Arquine which was dedicating its last dossier to the topic of...

Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal & Eyal Weizman and their team of Decolonizing Architecture are proving to us, once again, that not only they keep being the incontrovertible thinkers of the built dimension of the Palestinian struggle, but also that they constitute a crucial avant-garde in the relationships that architecture maintains with territorial and political challenges....

Marcel Proust by Stephen Alcorn In a conversation he had with Michel Foucault in 1972 (L’Arc (No. 49, pp. 3-10)), Gilles Deleuze uses a quote from French literary author Marcel Proust to illustrate his interpretation of how intellectuals should consider their theoretical work: A theory is exactly like a box of tools. It has nothing...

October will be a rich month of symposiums at Columbia University. In fact, on October 3rd, the French House in collaboration with GSAPP is organizing a panel entitled When is Utopia? with Jean-Louis Cohen, Sylvère Lotringer, Jean-Louis Violeau, Craig Buckley and Hubert Tonka. About two weeks later, on October 14th and 15th, Columbia will host...

Tokyo in 1945 I hope that my readers won’t be too surprised by the proliferation of essays that has occurred on the blog for a short time. I am indeed tired of the cult of the image that is being maintained online both by blog behemoths and by the multitude of tumblr around that contribute...

I already evoked in a previous article the very good website Arena of Speculation edited by Ahmad Barclay, Nina Kolowratnik, Tashy Endres. This website gathers and edit articles focusing on the territoriality of the Palestinian struggle. In this regard, the last one, released on May 1st is a text written by Gaza activist, Sami Kishawi...

picture: Joe Sacco. The Fixer. London: Drawn and Quarterly 2003 In 2009, Saskia Sassen was organizing a symposium at Columbia University entitled, Cities and the New Wars (see previous article) that was gathering intellectuals such as Stephen Graham or Eyal Weizman who presented brilliant lectures about how cities are affected by urban combat. Cities are...