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Gestural Autonomy, Informal Verticality "Everyone who has ever built anywhere a 'new heaven' first found the power thereto in his own hell." ~ Friedrich...
Exercises in Reality "It is not true that in order to live one has to believe in one's own existence. There is no necessity to that. No matter what, our...
2009 SOM Prize: Travel Fellowship Abstract Modernism, here to be discussed as an architectural style and way of rethinking the tropes of 19th century design,...
Architecture of the Techno-Romantic Yale School of Architecture: Mark Foster Gage Investigating issues of beauty and aesthetics, this seminar focused on...
The New Industrial City Yale School of Architecture: Alan Plattus Avoiding the urge to normalize, or naturalize, the relationship between the site and the...
TBD (forthcoming, TBD) "Counter Modernism: Tradition, Contradiction, Synthesis" "There is a mode of vital experience – experience of space and time, of the...
Log 18 "Urban Follies: Technology and the Apolitical" A century has passed since the planning and partial execution of Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett’s 1909...
Log 19 "Observations on 'The South'" The pilgrimage: hand drawn maps, insatiable curiosity and cobblestone roads winding underneath the canopy of Paraguay’s...
BIO Parsa Khalili (b. Tehran, 1984) received his MA in Architecture from Yale University in 2009 and was awarded the William Wirt Winchester Travelling Fellowship,...
Incidental Form, Color, Composition “People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that’s only if it’s done properly.” ~ Banksy Graffiti...
Oppositions: Shift as Dialectic Yale School of Architecture: Keith Krumwiede Contemporary art is in a state of crisis; in the aftermath of the post-Warhol era,...
Architectural Drawings "The irreality of "drawing" takes the additional step "upstream" (away from the real), toward the ideational itself. We see this most...
Architectural Artifacts "It is the virtue of the notion of the image that it combines the aesthetic spatiotemporal concretion of an object of sight with the...
"With tremendous effort and immense joy, we must strip away the cultural taboos we have inherited. We must track them down one by one in our minds and desanctify...
New Nature/ The [Un-]Subsidized City The 21st century city will be under constant revision, a construction work ever in-progress or the work of a capricious...
Digital Technocracies in the Age of Architecture Overwhelmed by the intensity of the fading dream, a lone figure surveys the abandoned city;dejected and adrift,...
The Origins of a New Formal Language Yale School of Architecture: George Nelson Scholarship Iran stands at a historical cross-road; torn between a conservative,...
The Urban Boutique: Camouflage and Identity Yale School of Architecture: Keller Easterling Nike Air Force Ones have become a definitive element in the attire of...
Parallax Yale School of Architecture: Greg Lynn w/Brennan Buck The Piazza San Pietro, although compositionally symmetrical and seemingly stable, relies on...
The Real and the Symbolic: Composition, Index and the Architecture of Negation Yale School of Architecture: Peter Eisenman w/Michael Wang Building from the...
