February 2012
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December 2011
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WHY COOPER UNION MATTERS
Since the 1980s, universities have responded to the pressures of economy by increasingly commercializing themselves, selling their educations as a product. That education has faltered as a result of this is evident all around us. The discourse has become one of investment: Exorbitant loans are justified on the grounds of the value of the product they purport to put out—namely, students that...
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November 2011
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October 2011
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Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing →
Rem Koolhaas’s CCTV building in Beijing, headquarters of China Central Television, has a beguiling and powerful design and is a metaphor for a country racing headlong into the future.
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The revolution was cybernetics, a transdisciplinary field of research and theory...
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In The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera wrote: “The struggle of...
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September 2011
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Exploring the subterranean cityscape →
Beneath all cities, lies an alternate dimension, not necessarily the “dark, underground, loathsome vice” of Dostoevsky (though there’s plenty of that, too), but a real warren of subterranean spaces that is mostly hidden or off-limits to surface dwellers…
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The Future, Retrenched →
Even as a handful of new architectural openings are anticipated, the biggest metaphorical event in the year ahead may be the implosion of Norman Foster’s building in Las Vegas.
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We are starting to see a natural turn toward substance, an interest in engagement with the world via architecture — and examinations of architecture’s place in the world — that goes beyond daring structural ...
July 2011
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Society of Control by Gilles Deleuze →
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Foucault located the disciplinary societies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they reach their height at the outset of the twentieth. They initiate the organization of vast spaces of enclosure. The individual never ceases passing from one closed environment to another, each having its own laws: first the family; then the school (“you are no longer in your family”); then...
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June 2011
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crab apples: “I don’t really know how to explain... →
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“I don’t really know how to explain it,” said Amalfitano. “It’s an old story… The weather is good, it’s sunny, you can go out and sit in the park and open a book by Valery… and then you go over to a friend’s house and talk. And yet your shadow isn’t following you anymore. At some point your shadow…
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