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The following letter has been written by French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard to Arakawa and Madeline Gins in 1997. Their answer is readable in the fantastic book Reversible Destiny: We have decided not to Die published by the Guggenheim Museum in the same year. Dear Friends, Could one perhaps call your antidestiny architecture “antibiography”? Would the...

photo: Site of Reversible Destiny – Yoro, 1993-95 After writing myself an essay about the work of Arakawa and Madeline Gins that I claimed, could be read in a celebration of Spinoza’s philosophy (Architectures of Joy), here is another essay, much more pushed towards something important: It is transcripted and extracted from a discussion between...

Site of Reversible Destiny – Yoro Park by Arakawa & Madeline Gins ARCHITECTURES OF JOY. A spinozist reading of Parent/Virilio and Arakawa/Gins’ architecture By Léopold Lambert (December 2010) In the middle of the XVIIth century, Baruch Spinoza revolutionized theology by proposing a tremendous change in the definition of God. From the classic transcendental vision of...

Dear readers, here is the introduction written for the book The Funambulist by its Readers: Political Geographies from Chicago and Elsewhere, a book commissioned by the curators of the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019, which collects 20 articles we published in our 22 first issues, as well as five new texts by Chicago-based activists. You may...

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...

Weaponized Architecture: Towards a Revolutionary Practice and Non-Practice of the Discipline. Lecture created for the Architectural Association’s lecture series “New Canonical Histories” curated by Manijeh Verghese. London on February 28, 2019. Architecture is the discipline that organizes bodies in space. Through this definition, Léopold Lambert attempts to demonstrate that the built environment has a propensity to...

Welcome to the nineteenth issue of The Funambulist, which begins the fourth year of its existence as a magazine. This volume is dedicated to a political struggle that has been too seldom addressed throughout the pages of past issues and that nevertheless very much mobilizes “the politics of space and bodies” that The Funambulist proposes...

LÉOPOLD LAMBERT: Farah, Adrienne, you are both choreographers; I thought that it could be interesting to initiate this epistolary dialogue around questions that intervenes through your work (with varying degrees of expliciteness); thank you for having accepted to participate to it. We may say that your working matter are the bodies in movement. This means...

Welcome to the fifteenth issue of The Funambulist, which revisits the topic addressed by the third issue (January-February 2016): Clothing Politics. The original issue devoted to this topic had described multiple ways in which clothes reveal, exacerbate, affect, or engage with bodily politics. Objects of investigation were sagging pants banned in Flint, Michigan and other...