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Screen/Print #57: Dora Epstein Jones On Re-centering 'the Building' in Architectural Discourse

2017-06-23T10:30:00-04:00

“We forgot about buildings,” claims Dora Epstein Jones in this provocative essay for The Building, a new volume edited by José Aragüez and published by Lars Müller, featured here as part of Archinect’s recurring series Screen/Print.

Archinect's Summer Reading + Listening List: Recommendations from Amale Andraos, Dora Epstein Jones, Jenna Didier, and Mimi Zeiger

2016-08-04T10:13:00-04:00

It turns out architecture folk don't really go for junk fiction when it comes to summer reading. Karl Ove Knausgaard makes another appearance, alongside classics by Albert Camus and Frantz Fanon, as well as some more architecture-specific reads. Here's what Amale Andraos, Dora Epstein Jones, Jenna Didier, and Mimi Zeiger are reading (and listening to) this summer—and why.

Screen/Print #21: Log 31, "New Ancients"

2014-07-25T10:13:00-04:00

Log is an insistently literary architecture publication — that is, it prioritizes text far over image. Rejecting “the seductive power of the image in media”, Log tries to communicate the significant aspects of contemporary architectural discourse within the diverse and often divisive international architectural community. This can be seen as an overt move away from the dominating form of architectural discourse around the globe, one perpetuated by flashy images with little or no context, let alone criticality.