A graduation project for the second-year program of The Berlage, led by Amir Djalali, Francesco Marullo, Hamed Khosravi, and hosted by Technische Universiteit Delft, November 2012 - June 2013. Read more
A critical stance towards the role of images is not to refuse them, but to open a gap—a critical distance—between images and their experience. Read more
The more the “office” fulfilled its own effectuality, the more its plan became empty Read more
What we should ask ourselves is not “What does this monument mean?”, but “What is this monument capable of doing?” Read more
Materials ⋅ The City as a Project
⋅ June 18, 2012
Communique on the Dutch govenment's "sanctions" against Iranian students Read more
The term medina renders a political power associated with a territorial dimension. In fact, medina can be understood as a "space of sovereignty", while it affirms a form of settlement, which is fundamentally shaped, defined and controlled by a theological political power. Read more
The year 1867 marks the publication of two seminal works: Marx’s Das Kapital, and Ildefonso Cerdà’s Teoría General de la urbanización. Both books shared the same belief in the emancipatory potential of science – for their authors, scientific analysis was the key tool to rethink the living conditions of their time Read more
The barest condition in which architecture can exist is presented here not as a stylistic exercise, but as a paradoxical act of representation, as a will to give to the conditions of the city its adequate form, whose meaning is the definitive renunciation of any will to representation. Read more
When Sébastien Marot introduced his lecture Palimpsestuous Ithaca: A Relative Manifesto for Sub-Urbanism projecting a closed box on the screen he established one main thesis of his project, a precise methodological operation. Read more
Regardless of the emergence of rotundity in architectural form the introduction of digital technologies implied deeper transformations in the modes of production of architecture, to an extent to break the consolidated categories that ruled architecture for the past five centuries. Read more
