Architect, artist, and experimental preservationist Jorge Otero-Pailos has created scents for Philip Johnson's Glass House, removed centuries of dust from the inside of Trajan's Column with latex, and is the newly appointed director of the Historic Preservation program at Columbia University's GSAPP, where he also began the "Future Anterior" journal. And this week, he joins us on the podcast to discuss ideas that he mulls over constantly in his work – what role should originality play in architecture? What's at stake when discourse and criticism come to rely more on representations than the in situ structure? And what role do media and virtual realities play in all of this?
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Shownotes:
The Detroit artist who sued to keep her mural preserved
Judging architecture with an aggressively photoshopped photo.
Jorge Otero-Pailos' “The Ethics of Dust: Trajan’s Column" at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2015) ↓
A recent lecture Otero-Pailos gave at the AA in London
Oliver Sacks' Hallucinations book
What Jorge Otero-Pailos is currently listening to:
What he's reading: The Weather Experiment
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This starts as a heady discussion but gets into some very personal and relatable experiences of architecture as both image and reality. Don't you wonder what the Glass House smells like?!
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