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2019-03-16T10:42:00-04:00

In this installment of Cross-Talk #9 — The Architecture Play, Ivan Bernal presents a personal account on how Play could be understood as a way to jump-start the discipline.

The role of Archinect’s series Cross-Talk is to bring forward the positive aspects of the polemic and allow for the resulting conflict to bring to life an otherwise still and comfortable climate of creativity—if there can be one. Cross-Talk attempts—if to only say that it did—to allow text the freedom that the image has accepted and embraced. Cross-Talk attempts to force the no, to contradict itself, to anger, to please and then anger again, if only to force a stance, to pull out the position of the self, of the discipline and of the hour as a means to begin and maintain conversations moving forward.

Disciplinary FOMO & Exhibitionary Pornification; A Look at Contemporary Curatorial Plights

2019-03-15T10:36:00-04:00

In this installment of Cross-Talk #9 — The Architecture Play, Anthony Morey explains why the constant stream of exhibitions and their hashtags may be doing more damage than good and how the solution could be to sit one out and reevaluate instead.

Architectural Agency: Playing at a New Scale; Thoughts with Taraneh Meshkani

2019-03-14T13:04:00-04:00

In this installment of Cross-Talk #9 — The Architecture Play, we talk with Taraneh Meshkani about the role of autonomy or maybe its non role in Architecture and how scale just might be the answer.

Playing in the World, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fetish with Jon Yoder

2019-03-13T09:30:00-04:00

In this installment of Cross-Talk #9 — The Architecture Play, we talk with Jon Yoder and the reunification of theory and practice into a purely playful disciplinary atmosphere.

Parallel, Cooperative & Solitary Play; The Architecture Play with Kathryn Strand

2019-03-12T09:30:00-04:00

In this installment of our current Coss-Talk outing — The Architecture Play, we talk with Kathryn Strand and the various forms and values of play and their value to Architecture today.

Cross-Talk #9: The Architecture Play — Introduction

2019-03-11T09:30:00-04:00

In this 9th installment of our ongoing series Cross-Talk, we are looking at the role of Play in Architecture and how it might find its way to a naive and revitalized foundation for disciplinary foundations.

The mission of Archinect’s series Cross-Talk is to bring forward the positive aspects of the polemic and allow for the resulting conflict to bring to life an otherwise still and comfortable climate of creativity—if there can be one. Cross-Talk attempts—if to only say that it did—to allow text the freedom that the image has accepted and embraced. Cross-Talk attempts to force the no, to contradict itself, to anger, to please and then anger again, if only to force a stance, to pull out the position of the self, of the discipline and of the hour as a means to begin and maintain conversations moving forward.

Mismatches Between the Social Value of Art and Public Consumers; Some Thoughts by Erin Cuevas.

2018-11-22T09:00:00-05:00

In this series, we are looking at the role Practice and Academia in today's disciplinary framework and how we can begin to analyze and recalibrate their relationship. In today's installment we hear from Erin Cuevas, a Los Angeles based designer and lead of Curious Minds Los Angeles.

Ontological Crapstractions or Just What is it That Makes Today’s Architecture so Indifferent so Appalling

2018-11-21T09:00:00-05:00

In this series, we are looking at the role Practice and Academia in today's disciplinary framework and how we can begin to analyze and recalibrate their relationship. In today's installment we hear from WAI Architecture Think Tank. WAI Architecture Think Tank is an international studio practicing architecture, urbanism, and architectural research. Founded in Brussels in 2008 by French ...

The Realities of Fun Versus Labor with Evan Bliss

2018-11-20T09:00:00-05:00

In this series, we are looking at the role Practice and Academia in today's disciplinary framework and how we can begin to analyze and recalibrate their relationship. In today's installment we hear from Evan Bliss, a Los Angeles based designer and Board Member of the LA Forum.

Cross-Talk #8: Academia & Practice — Introduction

2018-11-19T09:00:00-05:00

In this series, we are looking at the role Practice and Academia in today's disciplinary framework and how we can begin to analyze and recalibrate their relationship.

Algorithms & Images. Architecture's History Archivist.

2018-09-15T09:00:00-04:00

In this installment we hear from Phoebe Webster & Jack Stewart Castner. Phoebe is a Los Angeles-based designer raised in Maryland and is a current Master of Architecture candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles. Jack is a Los Angeles-based designer, raised in Philadelphia and holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Southern California, where he was awarded t...

Cut. Copy. Paste. One in a Million. Cut. Copy. Paste.

2018-09-14T09:00:00-04:00

In this installment we hear from Yoonjee Koh. Yoonjee Koh is the Director of Intermediate Architecture Studios and full time faculty member at The Boston Architectural College.

Protecting our Unconscious. Controlling our Inspiration?

2018-09-13T09:00:00-04:00

In this installment we hear from Ricardo Lledo Souto. Ricardo is a New York based designer currently studying at Columbia's Advanced Architecture Design Masters Program.

Based on True Events. Copied from Past Ones.

2018-09-12T12:28:00-04:00

In this installment we hear from Brendan Shea on the topic of Creative Rights & Intellectual Property. Brendan is a Los Angeles based designer, educator and maker.

Mutant Authorship. Agency, Capitalism and Memes.

2018-09-11T09:00:00-04:00

In this installment we hear from Ryan Scavnicky on the topic of Creative Rights & Intellectual Property. Ryan is the Visiting Fellow at the School of Architecture at Taliesin, a producer of theory films with SCI-Arc Channel, and a practicing Architectural Designer with studio TECHNE.

Cross-Talk #7: Creative Rights & Intellectual Property — Introduction

2018-09-10T14:13:00-04:00

In this series, we are looking at the autonomy of the student and their role in today's institutions as it relates to creative rights and intellectual property.

RE: Educational Complacency & Serious Misunderstandings

2018-09-06T13:31:00-04:00

In last week’s article, “Has Educational Complacency Diminished Today's Discourse?,” an uncredited image of my thesis project was completely taken out of context and written about in a way that severely mischaracterizes the nature of my thesis.

Cross-Talk #6: Konstantinos Chatzaras on East vs West

2018-07-13T09:00:00-04:00

The role of Archinect’s new series Cross-Talk is to bring forward the positive aspects of the polemic and allow for the resulting conflict to bring to life an otherwise still and comfortable climate of creativity—if there can be one. Cross-Talk attempts—if to only say that it did—to allow text the freedom that the image has accepted and embraced. Cross-Talk attempts to force the no, to contradict itself, to anger, to please and then anger again, if only to force a stance, to pull out the position of the self, of the discipline and of the hour as a means to begin and maintain conversations moving forward.

Cross-Talk #6: Connor Gravelle on East vs West

2018-07-12T09:00:00-04:00

Cross-Talk #6: Duane McLemore on East vs West

2018-07-11T09:00:00-04:00

Cross-Talk #6: WAI Think Tank on East vs West

2018-07-10T09:00:00-04:00

Cross-Talk #6: East vs West - Introduction

2018-07-09T09:00:00-04:00

Cross-Talk #5: 'Radical Candor'; Some Thoughts on Criticism from the Archinect Sessions Podcast

2018-04-20T16:03:00-04:00

Cross-Talk #5: 'Mediated Discourse' by Ryan Tyler Martinez

2018-04-19T09:00:00-04:00

Cross-Talk #5: 'The Beheaded Medusa' by Deborah Garcia

2018-04-18T09:00:00-04:00

Cross-Talk #5: 'The Practice of Criticism' by Eric Baldwin

2018-04-17T09:00:00-04:00

Cross-Talk #5: 'Decadent Critic(sch)ism, Words for Fingers' by Clemens Finkelstein

2018-04-16T12:00:00-04:00

Cross-Talk #5: Criticism — Introduction

2018-04-13T09:00:00-04:00

Cross-Talk #4: Joel Kerner on 'Academic Aesthetics'

2018-02-09T09:00:00-05:00

Cross-Talk is a recurring series on Archinect that endeavors to bring architectural polemics and debate up-to-date and up-to-speed with the pace of cultural production today. Each installation will feature an introduction premise along with four responses by four practitioners to a single topic. For this week's iteration, we look at 'Academic Aesthetics.'

Cross-Talk #4: Saba Salekfard on 'Academic Aesthetics'

2018-02-08T09:00:00-05:00