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Erandi de Silva on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect
This is an autobiographical work that records the career of modernist architect Minnette De Silva, a designer who is worth knowing and remembering. This document integrates a diary, an archive, an exhibition, and a monograph into a single volume. It is important to me personally because it memorialises the aesthetic richness of the twentieth century […]
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Thinking & Writing Place
“The history of feminism is, in a sense, the history of autotheory.” Lauren Fournier, Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing and Criticism, 2021. Thinking & Writing Place – Writing as Feminist Spatial Practice was a seminar curated by Lilian Robl at the Technische Universität München in spring 2023. The production of multilayered texts that […]

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Guilah Naslavsky on El interior de la historia: historiografía arquitectónica para uso de latinoamericanos
In the Portuguese translation: O interior da História: historiografia arquitetônica para uso de Latino-americanos (2013), which was first published in Spanish as El interior de la historia: historiografía arquitectónica para uso de latinoamericanos (1990), the architectural critic and historian Marina Waisman discusses the concept of regionalism as used in international criticism and understood as a positive […]

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Gentleness
In The Power of Gentleness, French philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle describes gentleness as a radical act of courage. Nænne is also about courage, about courage’s discomfort. I look out over the rooftops and hear the architecture of the city whisper: we cannot bear to tell the truth about our massive CO2 emissions. We don’t dare to […]

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Cristina Fusco on The Mushroom at the End of the World
Anna Tsing unravels stories of hidden ecologies emerging around the matsutake mushroom on different continents, unveiling the mushroom as an emotional anchor, a commodity, and a sign of resurgence in disturbance-based ecosystems. These disobedient ecologies, arising from deteriorated grounds, fascinate me as an alternative way of thinking about the relationship between non-human beings, architecture and […]