Beatriz Colomina at AA

Beatriz Colomina lectures at AA on Tuesday the 13th of January
The Architectural Association will be presenting a lecture entitled Blurred Vision: Architectures Of Surveillance From Mies To SANAA to be given by Beatriz Colomina, Professor of Architecture and Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University.
The lecture will look at the history [...]

Gevork Hartoonian on Walter Benjamin’s Angelus Novus

‘What Benjamin’s reading of the Angelus Novus involves can be described in the following words: Once the storm of progress is associated with the myth of ‘paradise’, the task of the historian turns to deconstruction of the ‘chain of events’, and uncovering the catastrophe. A distinction can be made between natural catastrophe, such as flood [...]