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The Funambulist Papers, Volume 1

  • Edited by Léopold Lambert

Published on October 23, 2013 by punctum books

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Pages
210 pages
Languages
English
Dimensions
5⤫8 in.
ISBN (Paperback)
ISBN: 978-0-615-89718-9 (Paperback)
DOI
DOI: 10.21983/P3.0053.1.00(opens in new tab)
BISAC subject codes
BISAC: ARC001000
Thema subject codes
THEMA: AMA, DNL

This book is a collection of thirty-five texts from the first series of guest writers’ essays, written specifically for The Funambulist(opens in new tab) weblog from June 2011 to November 2012. The idea of complementing Lambert’s own texts on his blog with those written by others originated from the idea that having friends communicate with each other about their work could help develop mutual interests and provide a platform to address an audience. Thirty-nine authors of twenty-three nationalities were given the opportunity to write essays about a part of their work that might fit with the blog’s editorial line. Overall, two ‘families’ of texts emerged, collected in two distinct parts in this volume.

The first part, The Power of the Line, explores the legal, geographical and historical politics of various places of the world. The second part, Architectural Narratives, approaches architecture in a mix of things that were once called philosophy, literature and art. This dichotomy represents the blog’s editorial line and can be reconciled by the obsession of approaching architecture without care for the limits of a given discipline. This method, rather than adopting the contemporary architect’s syndrome that consists in talking about everything but being an expert in nothing, attempts to consider architecture as something embedded within (geo)political, cultural, social, historical, biological, and dromological mechanisms that widely exceed what is traditionally understood as the limits of its expertise.

Contents

  1. Frontmatter (i–vi)

  2. Walking on a Tight Rope: Introduction (6–7)

    Léopold Lambert

  3. Entropy, Law, and Funambulism (11–13)

    Lucy Finchett-Madock

  4. The Clear-Blurry Line (14–18)

    Daniel Fernández Pascual

  5. Post-Political Attitudes on Immigration, Utopias and the Space Between Us (19–22)

    Ethel Baraona Pohl, Cesar Reyes

  6. The Mosque: Religion, Politics and Architecture in the 21st Century (23–26)

    Michael Badu

  7. Nothing to Hide (27–31)

    Mariabruna Fabrizi, Fosco Lucarelli

  8. Briefly on Walking (32–36)

    Caroline Filice Smith

  9. Femicide Machine/ Backyard (37–42)

    Greg Barton

  10. Becoming Fugitive: Carceral Space and Rancierian Politics (43–50)

    Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

  11. My Dear Francis...What Kind of Phoenix Will Arise From These Ashes? (51–54)

    Nikolas Patsopoulos

  12. Movement and Solidarity (55–58)

    Zayd Sifri

  13. Open Stacks (59–61)

    Liduam Pong

  14. A Visit to the Old City of Hebron (62–65)

    Raja Shehadeh

  15. Lahore's Architecture Of In/ Security (66–76)

    Sadia Shirazi

  16. Ruin Machine (77–81)

    Bryan Finoki

  17. The Textual-Sonic Landscape of Jacques Perret's Des Fortifications Et Ertifices (82–91)

    Morgan Ng

  18. Mapping Intervals: Towards an Emancipated Cartography (92–104)

    Nora Akawi

  19. The Funambulist Atmosphere (108–111)

    Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

  20. Apian Semantics (112–117)

    Matthew Clements

  21. Dissolving Minds and Bodies (118–120)

    Hiroko Nakatani

  22. Thoughts on Meta-Virtual Solipsism (121–124)

    Fredrik Hellberg

  23. Old Media's Ressurection (125–128)

    Linnéa Hussein

  24. Cinematic Catalysts: Contempt + Casa Malaparte (129–132)

    Danielle Willems

  25. Off the Grid Left Out and Over (133–137)

    Carl Douglas

  26. Transcendent Delusion Or; The Dangerous Free Spaces of Phillip K. Dick (138–141)

    Martin Byrne

  27. The Possible World of Architecture (142–146)

    Claire Jamieson

  28. Pet Architecture: Human's Best Friend (147–155)

    Carla Leitão

  29. Bread and CIrcus: Agorae Vs Arenas (156–159)

    Eduardo McIntosh

  30. Motion Architecture (160–163)

    Oliviu Lugojan-Ghenciu

  31. Fibrous Assemblages and Behavioral Composites (164–167)

    Roland Snooks

  32. Unfolding Azadi Tower: Reading Persian Folds Through Deleuze (168–172)

    Biayna Bogosian

  33. Twin (Technology/Art Induced) Architectural Daydreams (173–177)

    Esther Sze-Wing Cheung

  34. DIY: Biopolitics: The Deregulated Self (178–182)

    Russel Hughes

  35. Two Questions for Seher Shah (183–187)

    Alexis Bhagat

  36. The Groundbraking Clarity of Ryan and Trevor Oakes (188–194)

    Eve Bailey

  37. Would Have Been...An Inventory (195–201)

    Camille Lacadée

  38. Backmatter (203–210)

Also in this set

This book is part of a 2-volume set. Other volumes in the set are:

Biographies

  • Léopold Lambert

    (Editor)

    Léopold Lambert (born in 1985) is a French architect who successively lived in Paris, Hong Kong, and Mumbai and currently resides in New York. His approach to architecture consists in a delicate articulation between theoretical research and a frank enthusiasm for design. Such an articulation has been explicated in his book Weaponized Architecture: The Impossibility of Innocence(opens in new tab) (dpr-barcelona, 2012), which attempts to examine the characteristics that make architecture an inherent political weapon through global research as well as an architectural project specific to the Israeli civil and military occupation of the West Bank. He is also the author of the graphic novel, Lost in the Line(opens in new tab). He finds his architectural inspiration from films, novels, and political philosophy books, rather than in architectural theory texts. He is currently collaborating with Madeline Gins for her Reversible Destiny Foundation(opens in new tab) (created with the late Arakawa) whose philosophical and architectural work is highly influential upon the role of architecture in relation to the human body.

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Genres

  • Built Environments
  • Cultural Studies+Critical Theory

Keywords

  • architecture
  • cultural studies
  • design
  • geopolitics
  • theory