Archive for the 'design and politics' Category

Thanks to the collaboration between Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Bits and Atoms, Rotary International Jalalabad – San Diego Sister City Project, and MindTel LLC a new Fab Lab was opened near the city of Jalalabad in Afganistan. I have found out about it through Amy Sun’s blog. The Fab Lab so far realized [...]


We Have No Vision is a place where former Iaac students share thoughts loosely related to what they are doing on a daily basis. Times (not the magazine), economy, architects is the title of my newest text there. I wrote it in response to an article by Hemant Purohit. Hemant speaks of the disturbing situation [...]


Following the previous post and the argument about architecture as branding of contemporary regimes I would like to post here a print screen from Jacques Herzog presentation at Tate Modern in London. While describing the design process, he mentions that the “real workers’ city” accompanied the the building side: Of course, Jacques Herzog (nor any [...]