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October 02, 2008

Beyond the building: behind the website

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This is what it looked like when three of the best critics in the Netherlands set out to write an online book in five days at the Venice Architecture Biennial (which was two weeks ago),

Did I say concentrated?

Inspired by the recent burning-down of the Faculty of Architecture in Delft, the Dutch Pavilion (commissioned from Stealth by Ole Bouman) was turned into a project called ARCHIPHOENIX - a week long debate on "the capacities and capabilities of architecture - beyond building". My own contribution, a talk on the theme
"What would radical ecology imply for architecture? is online: click on "keynote speaker marathon: Beyond the sustainable".

Posted by John Thackara at October 2, 2008 09:29 AM

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