Soapbox is a new weekly series delivering a curated set of lectures, talks and symposia concerning contemporary themes but explored through the archives of lectures past and present. With the plethora of lectures, talks, symposia and panels occurring world wide on a daily basis, how can we begin to keep up and if not, find them once they are gone? Soapbox looks to assemble a selection of recent, archived and outlier lectures surrounding a given theme. Soapbox looks to curate this never-ending library of ideas into an engaging and diverse list of thoughts and provocations. Soapbox is just that, a collection aimed at discovering the occasional needle in a haystack.

This week, in its first offering, we present. Manifestos. A selection of videos  whose topics or purpose was to present if not reinforce, Manifestos.

1. GSAPP: What happened to the Architectural Manifesto Series

a. Enrique Walker, Felicity Scott and Anthony Vidler on the architectural manifesto. (2011)

b. Beatriz Colomina, Jeffrey Schnapp and Peter Eisenman on the architectural manifesto. (2011)

c. Mark Wigley, Bernard Tschumi and Carlos Labarta on the architectural manifesto. (2011)

2. Harvard GSD: A Dialogue: Jacques Herzog and Peter Eisenman (2013)

3. Graham Foundation: Koldo Lus Arana Architectural Narratives / Building Stories (2016)

4. CCA: Lecture by Anthony Vidler: Toward an other Architecture (2013)

5. Getty Research Institute: Le Corbusier’s Toward an Architecture: From the Bildungsroman to the Manifesto (2012)

6. Serpentine Pavilion: Manifesto Marathon (2008)

a. Pier Vittorio Aureli

b. Marina Abramovic

c. Peter Cook

7. SCI-ARC: Mark Wigley: Anarchitecture 101.5--Cutting Matta-Clark (2017)

* If you have a theme you think would produce a provocative arena of discovery let us know in the comments. 

See you next week.