This essay was written as a coda to a book edited by Robin Schuldenfrei, Atomic Dwelling (Routledge, 2012) ♦ Covering … More
Category: Modernism
Architecture and the Image of the Future in the People’s Republic of Poland
The realm of freedom actually begins only where labour which is determined by necessity and mundane considerations ceases … Karl … More
Paradise Lost?
This piece was published in Piktogram in 2005. ♦ The Art of Home In 1956 a member of the British … More
Sounding the Body Electric – art, cybernetics and electro-acoustic music in Eastern Europe in the 1960s
Neo-Constructivist, light and kinetic art, cybernetic design, concrete and electro-acoustic music were fields of high creativity and experiment … More
A spectre haunts the world and it is the spectre of migration
This review appears in Frieze, November 2011. ♦ In recent years Studio Formafantasma – Italian designers, Andrea Trimarchi and Simone … More
Manhattan’s Doubles
This article was written a few years ago when preparing the Cold War Modern exhibition at the V&A. It first … More
The Art of Cybernetic Communism
This article is due to appear in a book in Poland. It has been a long time in production so … More
