Below is the text I wrote for a film that will be showing during the "Architectural Playgrounds" show at the Ron Arad Retrospectiv...

I recently mentioned Flaubert's violently exotic novel Salammbo , about the Mercenary revolt in Carthage after the First Punic War , i...

Pieter Janssens Elinga, Room in A Dutch House. The Hermitage Museum. This is the point in the book “ Zeno of Bruges ” (or “The Abyss”) by ...

A storied proposal about architecture as a democracy of institutionalised reification, told from the perspective of one of its citizens. ...

Here are two spaces described in two of the three novels that make up Honore De Balzac’s ‘History of The Thirteen’ , books written at the ...

Using the popularity of History novels in 1830s Paris, Theophile Gautier wrote a book that was ostensibly about the historical figure Mlle d...

These are two extracts taken from the Musee Granet's exhibition about Cezanne's influence on Picasso, showing now in Aix-En-provenc...

I was kindly Invited by Karel Wuytack to be interviewed by two of his students, in order to take part in a textual exploration of t...

There is Taste that is bad because it is defined by people who conform to or are active within a given taste (taste here being distinct from...

These are from a wonderful collection of essays/articles, of which "Towards a policy of forms" was the one I found the most arrest...

Text Fields SITE TF002 is an exploration of the liminal zone that lies between the kind of quotidian space through which one wal...

p535 "When I wrote them, the sentences of my article were so weak compared to my thought, so complicated and opaque compared to my harm...

In true Panofsky fashion the book hops in and out of Neo-Platonism, Aristotelianism, Scholasticism, and many of their recombinations and ref...

The post in which I revisited an old text talked about a form of heaviness, a solid presence which I often feel weighing down from somewher...