Personal Collections
ENCOUNTERS is a collaborative bookwork about Umbrella House, Kazuo Shinohara’s smallest residential building. Built in Tokyo in 1961, Umbrella House was recently saved from demolition and reconstructed at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. It represents a pivotal moment in Shinohara’s career as he began moving away from decorative concerns towards his search […]
Disabling Architectural Environments is a collection extracted from a postgraduate thesis, ‘Disabling Architectural Environments: Absences in Architectural Conditions’, by Jessie Buckle. This is an auto-ethnographic exploration of the relationship between epilepsy, climate and the built environment.
This text was part of my PhD entitled Material Dramaturgy: Tracing Trails of Dust in the Architectural Design Process. It served as a preface before I delved into my research on the engagement with materials in the contemporary context of architecture. This collection you see now is somewhat different from the references I had in […]
This informal collection has been made by Kathleen James-Chakraborty and is based on her reading over one and a half years for an ERC project that she is leading called Expanding Agency: Women Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture The research project explores four ways in which women and ethnic minorities had an […]
In the spring of 2011, Reto Geiser and Martino Stierli, lecturers for architectural criticism at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, ran a seminar course focused on the making and collecting of oral histories. During this time, their students met and interviewed figures from the Swiss architectural scene, seeking to locate their position within the […]