http://agglutinations.com/ interviews and reviews about urbanism, politics, and society en-us 2004-12-09T06:23:49+00:00 http://agglutinations.com/archives/000042.html by Nader VossoughianDesigner Bruce Mau's career has been wide-ranging. In 1995, he collaborated with Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture on S,M,L,XL. In 2000, he published Life Style, an investigation into contemporary image culture. This year, he returns with Massive Change. What's new about this project? The scale,... Individual agglutinations 2004-12-09T06:23:49+00:00 http://agglutinations.com/archives/000040.html by María J. Prieto and Elise S. YounBruno Latour is a social scientist whose writings and collaborative work mediate between the fields of sociology, anthropology, science, technology, art and architecture. He emphasizes experimentation as a tool for decoding the connections between the human and non-human world. In his latest book,... Individual agglutinations 2004-07-05T00:00:01+00:00 http://agglutinations.com/archives/000038.html [for Part I, click here] VII.Seminar readings include Otto Neurath’s “Museum of the Future” (1933), Empiricism and Sociology (1973), International Picture Language (1936), and Nader’s “The Language of the World Museum: Otto Neurath, Paul Otlet and Le Corbusier” (2003). Nicola presents two visions of the modern museum; that of Schinkel’s... Individual agglutinations 2004-05-14T15:47:33+00:00 http://agglutinations.com/archives/000041.html by Arvin Garay-Cruz, Malini Kochupillai, Giorgos Mitroulias, Nicola Mongelli, Brian Ripel, Mike Szivos and Nader VossoughianOver the spring semester, I had the pleasure of giving a seminar in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. Titled “Facts and Artifacts: Science, Language, Culture,” the course attempted to... agglutinations 2004-05-13T20:58:32+00:00 http://agglutinations.com/archives/000037.html by Nader VossoughianIn her recently published Chronophobia (2004), Pamela M. Lee argues that time represents a seminal, if neglected, preoccupation of post-war modern art. This concern, she says, has everything to do with the rise of automation technologies during the post-World War II era. The work of Andy Warhol and... Individual agglutinations 2004-05-04T17:19:33+00:00 http://agglutinations.com/archives/000036.html by Lieven De Cauter (interviewer), Ortwin de Graef (translator), and Maïwenn Furic (transcriber)In 1997, conservative commentator and journalist William Kristol formed the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a Washington-based think tank whose stated goal is the bolstering of American “military strength and moral clarity” in the global arena.... Individual agglutinations 2004-04-20T19:06:59+00:00 http://agglutinations.com/archives/000035.html By Elise S. Youn and María J. PrietoThe projects of public artist Krzysztof Wodiczko give participants the opportunity to speak about their traumatic experiences. Through the animation of historic public buildings and monuments in cities such as Krakow, Boston, Hiroshima, Tijuana, St. Louis and Barcelona, his video projections create spaces... Individual agglutinations 2004-04-11T01:38:52+00:00 http://agglutinations.com/archives/000033.html by Nader VossoughianIn the months after September 11th, philosopher Giovanna Borrradori conducted a series of interviews with Jacques Derrida and Jürgen Habermas, questioning them on subjects ranging from cosmopolitanism to terrorism, globalization to politics. The fruits of this exchange now appear in her new book, Philosophy in a Time of... Individual agglutinations 2004-01-30T21:23:32+00:00 http://agglutinations.com/archives/000032.html by Nader VossoughianIn his recent essay “Graphing the Novel,” the first of three forthcoming texts published by the New Left Review, Franco Moretti argues that a shift has taken place within literary studies, “a shift from the close reading of individual texts to the construction of abstract models.” Against New... Individual agglutinations 2004-01-25T00:04:33+00:00 http://agglutinations.com/archives/000006.html by Nader VossoughianOn May 31, 2003, philosophers Jacques Derrida and Jürgen Habermas published a joint statement in Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and France's La Liberation, calling for the formulation of a common European foreign policy in order to "balance out" US global hegemony. A greater show of solidarity between the... Individual agglutinations 2004-01-12T04:11:31+00:00 http://agglutinations.com/archives/000017.html by Shantel Blakely What if one could try to change the "alphabet" of design to fit the world of experience? What if communication could be made more rational? Such was the project undertaken at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (“School of Design,” hereafter HfG), a school of industrial design and “visual... Individual agglutinations 2003-12-02T06:06:26+00:00 http://agglutinations.com/archives/000016.html By publishing the provocative project that follows by Fernando Quesada, Agglutinations seeks to introduce readers to the very interesting conceptual research being carried out by young architects in Spain. Design Statement“National Zoo” proposes the colonization of one of Madrid’s most prominent public spaces, the Discovery Gardens at the Plaza de... Individual agglutinations 2003-11-28T06:02:56+00:00 http://agglutinations.com/archives/000014.html Almost two weeks ago, we published Kenneth Frampton's "Critical Regionalism Revisited: Provisional Thoughts on the Future of Urban Design." In the postscript that follows, Frampton elaborates his position, reacting to criticisms posted recently by agglutinations.com contributors Bart Lootsma and Mark Gilbert. I very much appreciate the responses of Bart Lootsma... Individual agglutinations 2003-11-10T05:57:08+00:00 http://agglutinations.com/archives/000015.html by Casey Mack With Central Park’s 26 thousand trees soon to be available as backrests for 823 acres of wireless internet, it is hard to disagree that Peter Lang and William Menking’s Superstudio: Life Without Objects (2003) is timely in the way it takes the work of this important... Individual agglutinations 2003-11-09T06:00:43+00:00 http://agglutinations.com/archives/000013.html by Nader VossoughianIn his recently published The New Imperialism (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003), geographer and social theorist David Harvey makes the case for a "New Deal" brand of imperialism in which the responsibilities of government are carried out by a “benevolent… coalition of capitalist powers.” Against foes of globalization, he... Individual agglutinations 2003-11-03T05:54:03+00:00