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# INTERVIEWS /// Architectures of Joy: A Conversation Between Two Puzzle Creatures [Part B]

Arakawa + Gins, Bioscleave House (Lifespan Extending Villa),2004, photo: Léopold Lambert Today, I release the second part of the conversation I have been recently having with Madeline Gins about the Reversible Destiny Foundation co founded with Arakawa. While the first part was more an epistolary assignment, this second part is a face to face conversation...
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# INTERVIEWS /// Architectures of Joy: A Conversation Between Two Puzzle Creatures [Part A]

Arakawa + Gins, Yoro Park – Site of Reversible Destiny, Gifu,1995, Photo Trane DeVore It has been several months now that I started an oral and written conversation with Madeline Gins, co-founder with Arakawa of the Reversible Destiny Foundation that I have been evoking many times this last year (see the list of articles at the...
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# PHILOSOPHY /// First Sequel to the article "The Weight of the Body Falling": Spinozist Collision

Stills from 36 Quai des Orfèvres by Olivier Marchal I recently wrote an article (Sept 14th) entitled The Weight of the Body Falling which consisted in a first approach of a study of the effect of gravity on the human body and its potential architectural interpretation. The latter can be explored by writing about the...
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# CINEMA & PHILOSOPHY /// Spinozist Gravity: The Real Difference between Old & New Star Wars

First of all, I would like to say that this article is not an indictment against the three “new” episodes (I, II & III) of Star Wars; on the contrary of a lot of people, I think that those films brings something extremely interesting to the saga, which is the retroactive construction of a myth...
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# DELEUZE /// A Sunflower Seed Lost in a Wall is Capable of Blowing out that Wall (about Spinoza)

The very useful tumblr Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines recently chose an excerpt of the course Gilles Deleuze gave about Spinoza in the wonderful University of Vincennes in 1981. I copied this excerpt below and its original version in French.  This short text questions the notion of body and outline as interpreted by the Stoics...
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# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// The Modernist Ideology of a Normative Body

Modernist Architecture is characterized by a thaumaturgic (talent of miraculously curing) ambition which would heal the “diseases” of individuals and society. Although this ambition appears as obsolete and slightly ridiculous nowadays, after several decades of post-modernism that constituted in denying any other power of architecture than a merely aesthetic one. However, my thesis, that I...
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# ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES /// Camouflage by Neil Leach with photographs by Francesca Woodman

After having evoked a very literal vision of camouflage yesterday (see the article), the book entitled Camouflage written by Neil Leach in 2006 and published by the MIT Press, proposes a more philosophical way to interpret such notion. In this book, N.Leach interprets camouflage as a phenomenological survival strategy or masquerade that  questions the notion...
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