Archinect - Features

Redlines: The Funambulist

2018-07-24T09:00:00-04:00

Redlines is a collection of interviews with editors that make today's most provocative architectural publications come to life. While architecture is traditionally concerned with buildings, materials, and scale, their importance and historical impact are recorded through words, books, and images that are often organized, published, and disseminated. Redlines seeks to understand the pedagogical and design frameworks that shape this process.

In this issue we talk with Léopold Lambert the editor-in-chief of the Funambulist. Started as a blog in 2010, it began publishing regular articles mostly written by Léopold Lambert about the political violence of architecture, in particular in Palestine.

Screen/Print #60: Suzannah Victoria Beatrice Henty on the contradictory nature of reparation politics

2017-07-28T12:00:00-04:00

What does it mean when a country takes responsibility for a historical act of injustice while ignoring its contemporary actions of a similar nature? In this essay by Suzannah Victoria Beatrice Henty for The Funambulist, she examines the often-contradictory nature of reparation politics.

Uncovering the Architecture of Colonialism with 'The Funambulist'

2017-03-01T07:56:00-05:00

The Funambulist is a bimestrial online and print journal founded by the French architect Léopold Lambert in 2015. Operating alongside a blog and a podcast, The Funambulist critically engages with some of the most pressing issues of the day, focusing on the political relationships between bodies and the built environment. Their tenth issue, released today, contends with the role of architecture in colonialism, understood here not as a "delimited period" but rather as a "continuous process" and "system of domination". To celebrate the issue’s launch, Archinect is featuring the introduction, which is written by Lambert, edited slightly for clarity.