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architecture, specifically

Ed Sorel, cover, New Yorker, January 31, 2000.

Amidst themes of anamorphosis, orthography, psychoanalysis, etc. some essays focus specifically on architectural conditions, even though some of those reside in films and fiction. These essays include texts prepared for architecture audiences: schools, conferences, journals, workshops, classes.


• Figure–Ground Reversal and the Delirium of “Figural” Space 

• The Unsung Role of Metonymy in Constructing Sites of Exception: Ekphrasis, Divination, Epiphany

• The Goldfish Variations, a Cartography Love Story  

• The Anxious Landscape: The Role of Hysteria in Perception and Portrayal of the Landscape 

• The Topography of Fear: Architecture’s Fourth Walls and Inside Frames 

• Hearths and Doors, the Space of Cuisine 

• Gardens of Forking Paths: Notes on Architecture’s Ingenious Destruction and Re-creation of Time 

• The Missing Guest: The Twisted Topology of Hospitality 

• Motion in Poe: Anagnorisis, Chiaroscuro, and Anacoluthon 

• Anarchic Thinking 

• An Atlas of Virtuality: Mapping the “Horizontal” Political Unconscious of Architecture 

• Reflected Ceiling Plans

• “Minding the Gap” in Architectural Speculation

• Reflected Ceiling Diagrams and Reverse Chaining of the Hysterical Subject 

• An Atlas of the Political Unconscious of Architecture 

• Revisiting the Uncanny: a Model of Visuality for Architectural Speculation

• The Performative in Architecture

• Discourse Architecture, Part Two

• Discourse as Architecture / Architecture as Discourse

• Prolegomena to Any Future Dog Architecture

• Holes in Walls, Walls in Holes

• Poché: Encadrement as Enclosure

• Pointing the View

• Shadow Line, a Rough Draft 

• Site Model, Original Sense

• Architects Should Be Idiots

• Briefly Noted (Book Review) 

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