CollageLab: In one of your latest posts, Official Report on the Question of the so-called New York Commune, you draw delicately the fictional landscape – in terms of time and space…

Collage: Architecture as a political weapon? It implies that architecture has something to fight against? The re-new-ed “trend” – which may disappear or not – of engaged architecture in a political level…

  The premise was simple enough: propose a vision for post-capitalist work. But since there was such a range of responses–most of which took a generous detour from the prompt as written–the…

We are really honored to launch a second series of shared points of views. This time, we talk with Leopold Lambert, the man – extremely productive – behind the – highly recommended…

As an introduction to the work and interests of Joseph Redwood Martinez, member of the jury for the second opus of the competition, we are happy to let you discover one of…

Entering a city is being swallowed by it. Every new-born, tourist, business-man, beggar, parent, dog, fox or whatever living creature ventures on this artificial territory is, willingly or not, drawn into its…

  By entering the Arsenale, one faces the COMMON GROUND, right there, in big blue letters on a white wall. Apart from the beautiful pictures of a depraved Eastern Germany Landscape by…

  The Venezuelan room, curated by the highly recommended team of Urban Think Tank with Justin Mc Guirk received the Golden Lion for the best project in the current Venice Biennale. It…

Opus n°3 of our on-going conversations with Daniel Fernandez Pascual, author of the wonderful deconcrete.org. ………………………………………………………….   CollageLab: Actually, when you mention the case of Haussmann’s Paris, David Harvey is going further: in…

It’s a real opportunity to attend the preview of the Venice Biennale. This is what I have to say. Because it is… or… Is it? Whereas you all read for some days…

    Canada’s capital, Ottawa, sits at the intersection of 3 rivers (Rideau, Gatineau, Ottawa) and the Rideau Canal, with the Gatineau hills – part of one of the oldest mountain system…

  They say that hindsight is 20/20, but perhaps memory is not so clear. The recent financial crash, and the coincidental crash in the global real estate market, is by no means…

    “Stop City” is a utopian project of the Italian-Dutch architectural office DOGMA, a sort of manifesto which sets a theoretical base for most of their work. It is a critique…

While riding through Tamil Nadu in Southern India, the sensation of time and distance appear to be quite different from what I know, used to high speed highways and comfortable sits on…

These are the links to the absolutely recommendable and indispensable 4 hours documentary from Adam Curtis in which he offers us an overview of the 20th century through the development and evolution…

CollageLab: The focus on public-space is very present in your blog. The recent tendencies of privatizing public-space, on the one hand, and of reclaiming ‘the right to the city’, on the other,…

CollageLab is happy to launch a serie of open discussions on urban content: organized through live questions asked to theoretician of the urban fields, this serie has for ambition to collect and…

Me: What should an architect do in order to gain money? A German architect: A large urban-design project in China, or maybe win a competition in Russia. In Germany one can do…

The floor is full of broken glass. It makes a rustling sound as it is crushed under your boots. Steel slabs emerge rhythmically through the holes of the ceiling. As you advance…

Coming from the initiative of BINA (Belgrade International Architecture Week), Natasa Jankovic, Ana Savic, Alen Spahic and Dubravka Sekulic realized the first governance map for the city of Belgrade.     “The…

Auroville: 870 hectares of land along the bay of Bengal, 6 km north of Pondicherry, in Tamil Nadu, India.   Auroville was founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa, french citizen, leader and…