John Jourden is an (a)rchitect and pathological thinker living in New York.
The New Harmony Athenaeum: Richard Meier interviewed by Ben Nicholson. March 25th, 2010, New York., Mon, Jan 3 '11
"It's still not entirely clear what it meant for the history of architecture," Paul Goldberger reflected in a New York Times article in 1996 on the implications of The New York Five. It's still not entirely clear but one thing is for certain the "Five" still cast along shadow. The Five, Peter ...
Archinect [Excerpts] - Log 16: An Interview with OM Ungers, Thu, Jul 16 '09
In September 2004, the architect Rem Koolhaas, a student of Oswald Mathias Ungers (at Cornell) and later colleague, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, a curator at the Serpentine Gallery in London, went to Cologne for the first of what was to be a series of conversations with the “rationalist&rdquo ...
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The Shortest Distance for Romania, Mon, Feb 4 '08
In the article below, pointed out by John Jourden, published in October 2007 in Revista 22, the Lecturer, Doctor in Philosophy and blogger Catalin Avramescu presents an interesting view on what urbanism reveals about a society.
UbuWeb Vu: Kenneth Goldsmith , Tue, Jun 26 '07
Artist, critic, poet, writer, and Web provocateur Kenneth Goldsmith is one of those rare individuals who create their own gravity. The breadth of interests and activities that have characterized his twenty-three year career alone is enough to command respect, but perhaps chief among Goldsmith's ...
UpStarts: Plasma Studio , Mon, Jan 22 '07
The one thing you will not find in school—or even on Architecture Registration Exams—is a course on how to get work, yet it is one of the most basic needs of any design practice. In fact, if you don't have an equal ability to experiment in getting work as you do in doing work you would be ...
UpStarts: MAD office, Wed, Nov 15 '06
The one thing you will not find in school--or even on Architecture Registration Exams--is a course on how to get work, yet it is one of the most basic needs of any design practice. In fact, if you don't have an equal ability to experiment in getting work as you do in doing work you would be ...
Charles Jencks: Being Iconic, Sun, Dec 11 '05
Charles Jencks is an author, architect, historian, critic, and occasional soothsayer. He is synonymous with the concept of the Postmodern in architecture, as he was the first to extend those ideas into architectural discourse with his book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture . His numerous ...
Double Dutch: Aaron Betsky, Tue, Oct 19 '04
Aaron Betsky, 46, is the director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam, and one of the most important critics and proponents of architectural discourse today. His experience as an architect, critic, curator, educator, lecturer, and writer on architecture and design have ...
Double Dutch: Nathalie de Vries, Tue, Oct 19 '04
The Dutch Architecture firm MVRDV (an acronym for Maas + van Rijs + de Vries) is the archetypal representative of the radical break from a traditional architectural discourse. By incorporating systematic research (‘datascapes') in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and landscape ...
