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A Portrait of a House, excerpts from Absalom, Absalom!

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Life Without Buildings 2012-02-08 20:22:38
A Portrait of a House, excerpts from Absalom, Absalom! I’m currently reading William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! It’s a incredible book. A visceral portrait of a haunted, Civil War era American South. I haven’t finished it yet, so this post is pretty much spoiler-free, but I was so impressed with the depictions of the mansion around which most of the story’s central tragedies …

The Same Things Happen: On Repetition On RepetitiOn Repetitionrepetition

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Life Without Buildings 2012-02-03 08:34:40
The Same Things Happen: On Repetition On RepetitiOn Repetitionrepetition[still from Groundhog Day, dir. Harold Ramis (1993)] The same things happen. The spray-painted tag was written on a crumbling wall in New Orleans and it immediately struck a dissonant chord in me. I kept walking, staring down at the fractured sidewalk pavement. I kept walking and when I looked up, I saw a …

Breaking Out and Breaking In: An Architectural Film Fest

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Life Without Buildings 2012-01-31 17:13:41
Breaking Out and Breaking In: An Architectural Film Fest What does a heist reveal about bank design? What can architects learn from a prison break? What happens when we view the criminal act as an especially transgressive mode of architectural criticism? Or a criminal investigation as a means to understand the interrelationship between architecture and deviance? Crime has the potential to reveal …

If that’s ALL there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing…

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Life Without Buildings 2012-01-26 08:33:40
The Maurizio Cattelan exhibition ALL ended its run at the Guggenheim last weekend and I wanted to share some quick thoughts about the show, especially in light of what seems to have been a mostly negative reception from some of our more prominent art critics. But more than that, I’m also hoping that by posting what is little more than a …

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Life Without Buildings 2012-01-03 02:56:26
If the Guggenheim did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. twitter.com/LifeSansBldgs/? — Jimmy Stamp (@LifeSansBldgs) December 17, 2011

Considering ‘Reconsidering Postmodernism’

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Life Without Buildings 2011-11-15 06:43:04
Last weekend I attended Reconsidering Postmodernism, a two-day conference in New York City organized by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. The event was convened in an “attempt to illuminate postmodernism?s overall cultural impact.” Whether or not it achieved that goal is debatable – but it unfortunately, it wasn’t often debated, as you’ll see below. I’ll be writing a couple …

In Which Your Architecture Critic?s Personal Issues May Be Interfering With His Job

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Life Without Buildings 2011-09-29 01:39:42
The following post was originally written as an entry to McSweeney’s 2011 Column Contest. It didn’t win. But I had a lot of fun writing it so I thought I’d post it here. As proposed, it was an architectural criticism column written from the perspective of a somewhat emotionally dysfunctional critic who sees his own failures in the monumental structures that …

The Ruins of a New York That Wasn’t: Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006

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Life Without Buildings 2011-07-07 03:37:56
Standing in front of the concrete blocks on a warm June morning, I found myself wondering if they were the ruins of a forgotten city – or maybe a fragment of this city’s forgotten history. The fractured masonry corner before me couldn?t truly be a ruin, though. It was perfectly crafted – too perfectly crafted. Its edges were precisely stepped and …

The Ruins of a New York That Wasn’t: Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006

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Life Without Buildings 2011-06-20 03:37:56
Standing in front of the concrete blocks on a warm June morning, I found myself wondering if they were the ruins of a forgotten city – or maybe a fragment of this city’s forgotten history. The fractured masonry corner before me couldn?t truly be a ruin, though. It was perfectly crafted – too perfectly crafted. Its edges were precisely stepped and …

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Life Without Buildings 2011-06-14 23:07:34

The Reading Room

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Life Without Buildings 2011-06-14 23:07:34
The iron tracery of the library windows outline stained glass depictions of the ubiquitous campus heraldry beside scenes of history’s most famous writers and scholars. As the summer haze seeped into the reading room, its dark wood-paneled walls somehow managed to grow more oppressive. The haze was once much thicker though, and had carried with it the scents of Connecticut tobacco …

FUGITIVE GEOGRAPHIES: Yale School of Architecture Graduate Symposium

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Life Without Buildings 2011-03-07 18:51:41
- Along with my fellow members of the M.E.D class of 2011, I’ve been working hard to organize Fugitive Geographies, a graduate student symposium that investigates the built environment as both accomplice and obstacle to the criminal fugitive; as a mercurial landscape that offers concealment one moment and prevents escape the next. Fugitive Geographies gathers speakers from philosophy, history, art, media theory, …

FUGITIVE GEOGRAPHIES: Yale School of Architecture Graduate Symposium

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Call for Papers: Fugitive Geographies

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Life Without Buildings 2010-10-28 21:05:28
From the unique perspective of the criminal fugitive, the built environment is both accomplice and obstacle – a mercurial landscape that offers concealment one moment and prevents escape the next.To be fugitive is to exist in a continuous present, where successful evasion depends on the ability to re-read and react to a shifting context. Fugitive Geographies is an investigation into this …

Ghostmodernism

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Life Without Buildings 2010-10-21 20:28:06
[Harold Lime, Walter Gropius, and others look on as the Static Engine is activated for the first time.] French playwright Alfred Jarry invented practical time travel in 1899. In an essay that shattered the scientific community, he theorized that a time machine ?is no more difficult to conceive of than a Space Machine,? and continued to describes his design for an …

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Life Without Buildings 2010-09-02 13:49:30
Seemingly oblivious to the city around her, the young woman takes the mobile phone from her ear and presses a button. Suddenly, floating in the ether directly in front of her a message appears: ?New Dress code: FUNKY.? With a smirk and a wave of her hand, she’s suddenly surrounded by three new translucent windows, enveloping her in the heads-up-display of …

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Over-caffeinated, under-employed, and Bored to Death

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Life Without Buildings 2010-03-17 23:35:40
It all seems so simple in retrospect. I wanted a cup of coffee, I got a cup of coffee. But obtaining this particular cup would?ve been much more difficult five years ago – and nearly impossible ten years back. This wasn?t just any coffee (and cucumber sandwich [1]), this was a very specific coffee. Actually, let me rephrase that – a …

Over-caffeinated, under-employed, and Bored to Death

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Over-caffeinated, under-employed, and Bored to Death

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Life Without Buildings 2010-03-17 05:35:40
It all seems so simple in retrospect. I wanted a cup of coffee, I got a cup of coffee. But obtaining this particular cup would?ve been much more difficult five years ago – and nearly impossible ten years back. This wasn?t just any coffee (and cucumber sandwich), this was a very specific coffee. Actually, let me rephrase that – a very …

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