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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS 55 /// Norm, Measure of All Things by Sofia Lemos
Ernst Neufert, Architects’ Data (1936) This new Funambulist Paper is written by friend Sofia Lemos, public programmer and researcher based in London, and with whom I have been sharing great interest...
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# LECTURES /// Upcoming Conversations in Mexico City, Santiago de Chile, and...
Before resettling in Europe in September, I will be on the roads of Latin America to record a few conversations for Archipelago. In this context, I am honored to participate to the following upcoming...
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# ARCHIPELAGO 55 /// The Colonial Administration of Bodies and Space with Ann...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// Disease as Spatial Segregation: “Quadrillage”...
Last Friday, the Liberian government has announced that it was lifting the quarantine that was enforced on the West Point neighborhood in Monrovia. For ten days, the 70,000 inhabitants of this poor...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// Social Violence that Could Not Exist Without...
Two screenshots from the website of “Colony 1209″ in Bushwick (New York) Last month, one more of these outrages with little investigative depth (see past article for another one) occurred on the...
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# PALESTINE /// The Architectural Dilemma of the Refugee Camp
The new public square of Fawwar refugee camp Photograph by Adam Ferguson for the New York Times A few days ago, the New York Times exceptionally published an interesting article about Palestine...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// Fearful Discursive Contamination Crystallized...
Typical entrances to upper social class housing buildings in São Paulo (all photographs by Léopold Lambert) I am finishing a trip in Latin America (Mexico City, Santiago, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Rio...
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# HISTORY /// Weaponized Cities: Dictatorial Brasilia and Colonial Algiers
Above: Original master plan of Brasilia by Lúcio Costa (1957) Below: Map of Algiers’s Casbah with its streets’ names I recently had the chance to visit Brazil’s capital city, Brasilia, in order to...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// The Intrinsic Violence of Architecture: The...
What is interesting in giving talks is the potentiality of a dialogue with the people who are kind enough to come listen and often question the formulation if not the founding of one’s argument. I was...
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# New Articles Coming Soon
Regular readers of the Funambulist certainly noticed a drop of the article rhythm during the last month. I wanted to apologize for this and insure you that the publication rhythm will find its pace...
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# HISTORY /// Bridging the Thickness of the Demarcation Line During WWII
When visiting for the second time the Chateau de Chenonceau (Indre et Loire, France) last week, I could not help but notice an important aspect of the chateau’s history in the sum of information given...
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# DRESSED BODIES /// Anticipating Police, Discriminated Bodies, and Designed...
Trayvon Martin’s hoodie as a piece of evidence during George Zimmerman’s trial (Gary W. Green / EPA / June 25, 2013) Text written last year for a publication that finally refused it /// Our bodies do...
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# PALESTINE /// Why the Recognition of a State of Palestine Is Bad News
The Palestinian government of Ramallah in May 2012 In the recent days, both Sweden and the United Kingdom parliaments moved ahead to give recognition to a State of Palestine. What sounds like good news...
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# PALESTINE /// The Continuous Siege: Spectacular and Normal Territorial...
A few weeks ago, I was asked to write a text for The Fall Semester, an in situ (Miami) and online symposium that occurred last week. I figured that it would be a good opportunity to make a synthesis of...
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# POLITICS /// Considering that It Is Plausible that Such Events Could Occur...
On March 29, 2013, Stéphane Raffalli, the mayor of Ris-Orangis, a 25,000-inhabitant town of the South suburbs of Paris, issued a municipal order to evict and destroy a shantytown where more than 200...
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# WEAPONIZED ARCHITECTURE /// The Walls of Our World: Our Golf Course Is...
Mellila, October 22, 2014 / Photograph by José Palazón Making a photograph speak is a common journalistic exercise, yet it is a perilous one, since much of the image’s story remains unseen on it – the...
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# ARAKAWA/GINS /// Towards an Architecture that Does Not Know What a Body Is
Elliptical Field – Site of Reversible Destiny Yoro by Arawaka and Madeline Gins (1995) Photograph by Léopold Lambert I had recently the great chance to (re)visit two of the three architectures designed...
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# LECTURE /// Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Cloth, the...
. TOPIE IMPITOYABLE: Les politiques corporelles du vêtement, du mur et de la rue Lecture recorded at L’Iselp in Brussels on October 16, 2014. The title of the presentation is the same than the book...
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# PALESTINE /// Colonial Economy in Gaza and the West Bank: The Normal...
Gaza cucumbers transported towards the West Bank (Gisha, November 6, 2014) As occupied East Jerusalem currently provides us with more images of violence between the (armed) Israeli police and the...
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# THE FUNAMBULIST PAPERS 56 /// Framing the Weird Body in Contemporary...
Still from Dogtooth (2009) by Yorgos Lanthimos The Funambulist Papers series — the second volume will be published in the first part of 2015 — continues today. I am happy to supply some ‘fresh air’ in...
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