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Selected Texts

Casey, Edward
The Fate of Place University of California Press, 1999 Introduction, Chapters 10 & 11
Eisenman, P “Notes on Conceptual Architecture: Towards a Definition” in Casablanca, Dec. 1971 and in Design Quarterly 78/79, 1970
Gustafsson, Lars Death of a Beekeeper
Heidegger, Martin "Dwelling Building Place" in Basic Writings, Harper Collins, 1993
Kirkeby, Per Norwegian Landscapes, Schwitters Edition Bløndal & Baltic, 1995
Last, Nana "Conceptualism’s (Con)quest" in Harvard Design Magazine Fall2003/Winter 2004
Nietzsche, Fredrick Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Dover 1999
Pascal, Blaise Pensées
Shepheard, Paul What is Architecture? MIT Press 1994
Wittgenstein, Ludwig Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Routledge 2001
[This was the resultant text that Wittgenstein was working on during his time in the hut in Skjolden fjord. The first few propositions are exceptionally potent; also the latter sections provide a more esoteric philosophical position.]


Selected Websites and Webpages

Images of Wittgenstein’s hut

Le Corbusier's cabanon in Cap Martin in the south of France.
[The intentionality of this structure has a particularly perverse twist that is explored in:]
Colomina, Beatriz Battle Lines within ed. Welchman, John, Rethinking Borders, Macmillan 1996

N55
N55: SPACEFRAME
N55: SNAIL SHELL SYSTEM

Gelatin
Gelatin Artforum reviews >>1. >>2.
Gelatin statement of denial

Mike Rakowitz's ParaSite Project

Pttred Treffpunkt >>1. >>2.

Atelier Van Lieshout

Jorge Pardo >>1. >>2. >>3.


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