This is an extract of a talk which I will present at the ‘Afterlives of Constructivism‘ conference at Princeton University…
Walking With Hansen
In lieu of the full text, here is a link to a talk on Oskar Hansen’s ideas about the mobile…
Pop Cinema in Eastern Europe – lecture at Tate
This lecture was given at Tate Modern in London on 15 March 2013 as part of the Global Pop conference.
Tomaszewski’s ‘Historia’ (occasional notes on posters)
In Eastern Europe before 1989, the state held a near-monopoly on all forms of public expression. Censors wielding red pencils…
Zamecznik’s Silent Star (occasional notes on posters)
In many science fiction films of the Cold War period the cosmos is represented as an extra-terrestrial space in which…
Autonomy. The cover designs of Anarchy 1961-1970
The political philosophy of Anarchism attracted some extraordinary and perhaps unlikely British adherents. They included Alex Comfort, an expert on…
Paris or Moscow? Warsaw Architects and the Image of the Modern City in the 1950s
In 1934 architects Szymon Syrkus and Jan Chmielewski presented their plans for the future of Warsaw at the a meeting…
Modernizacje 1918-1939. Czas przyszły dokonany – review
This review was commissioned by the European Architectural History Network in 2010. ♦ Like a number of other exhibitions on…
The Photographer in the Hall of Mirrors
This is an extract of an long essay on the work of photographer Nicolas Grospierre. It will appear in a…
Paper Architecture: The Columbaria of Brodsky and Utkin
This essay appeared in the catalogue for the Postmodernism. Style and Subversion 1970-90 Exhibition at the V&A Museum in London…
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