philadelphia PENNSYLVANIA

Dirt—edited by Megan Born, MArch/MLA’08, Lily Jencks, MArch/MLA’09, and Assistant Professor of Architecture Helene Furján with Phillip M. Crosby, PhD Fellow—presents a selection of works that share dirty attitudes: essays, interviews, excavations, and projects that view dirt not as filth but as a medium, a metaphor, a material, a process, a design tool, a narrative, a system. Rooted in the landscape architect’s perspective, Dirt views dirt not as repulsive but endlessly giving, fertile, adaptive, and able to accommodate difference while maintaining cohesion. This dirty perspective sheds light on social connections, working processes, imaginative ideas, physical substrates, and urban networks.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Tarp: Not Nature, 2012’s publication by the Graduate Architecture and Urban Design program at Pratt Institute, has been released and is available to all those interested. Contributors include Catherine Ingraham, Ed Keller, David Gissen, Sandford Kwinter, Alisa Andrasek, Patrik Schumacher, Antoine Picon, and more.

To claim your issue, email TARP’s editors at tarp@pratt.edu.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Join the Tarp staff to celebrate the release of tarp: Not Nature this Friday at Metropolitan Exchange.

Tarp: Not Nature
Friday, 05/04
7.00-10.00 pm / Metropolitan Exchange
33 Flatbush Avenue, 6th Floor
Brooklyn, NEW YORK 11217

london ENGLAND

The aim is a comprehensive theoretical system that offers itself to architecture as its comprehensive self-description describing architecture from within architecture, in its internal constitution, and in its relationship to its societal environment. The premise here is that architecture has always already constituted itself self-referentially, via its own autonomous, disciplinary discourse.
The theory proposed here, the theory of architectural autopoiesis, focuses on architectural communications and “observes” these communications to detect its typical patterns. The theory analyses how individual communications depend upon and reproduce communication structures like the key distinctions, concepts, values, styles, methods and media of the discipline.

new york NEW YORK

The new issue of Log explores the idea of curating architecture. Cynthia Davidson draws on Zaha Hadid, Jeffrey Kipnis writes a letter, Henry Urbach seeks the atmosphere, Hans Ulrich Olbrist alphabetizes concepts, Kurt Forster argues for architecture, and Sylvia Lavin redefines architectural work.

new york NEW YORK

The new issue of Log explores the idea of curating architecture. Cynthia Davidson draws on Zaha Hadid, Jeffrey Kipnis writes a letter, Henry Urbach seeks the atmosphere, Hans Ulrich Olbrist alphabetizes concepts, Kurt Forster argues for architecture, and Sylvia Lavin redefines architectural work.

new york NEW YORK

david MAZZUCCHELLI, the brilliant illustrator of batman year one, city of glass, and rubber blanket, has put out his first full length original work – asterios polyp. The novel’s titular character, an architect who has yet to realize any of his speculative, highly theoretical work, is forced to reexamine his life and career following an accident which takes him from manhattan and ivy league teaching appointments to being a small town mechanic. Mazzuccheli experiments with a number of constantly shifting styles, color application, and drawing techniques to illustrate the story and push the boundaries of image and text’s relationship.

portland OREGON

another great issue of yeti magazine complete with luc sante’s real photo postcards, illustrations by nicholas gazin, interviews with zolla jesus, bishop perry tillis, and elaine radigue as well as a cd full of fuzzed out gems from tyvek, ty segall, mantles, woven bones, and little claw.

FRANCE

jason’s low moon collects five of his shorter pieces including the titular new york times serial into his first hardcover book. continuing in his spare style and his impeccable timing he uses techniques that are reminiscent of silent film as he builds suspense and bizarre laughs at every twist with these stories of murder, sex, and deadpan talking dogs.

new york NEW YORK

the third set of PENGUIN’S beautiful great ideas series is finally available in the united states. the covers feature designs in shades of green by the fantastic david pearsons. this set of twenty pocket paperbacks includes foucault, plutarch, kierkegaard, camus, proust, tolstoy, and freud.