Prisca Thielmann >
13 January 2009, 6:30pm
[caption id="attachment_250" align="alignnone" width="380" caption="Prisca Thielmann - Building Ruins"][/caption] Opening Lecture to Prisca Thielmann's …
Colin Davies: How does it work in theory? >
8 January 2009, 6:30pm
In the last thirty years or so, architectural theory, under the influence of structuralism, post-structuralism and French critical theory generally, has …
On intimacy. A preview of Stephen Taylor’s exhibition at the ASD Gallery
In a seminal work on the physical and imaginary functions of the skin (Le moi-peau, 1985), French psychologist Didier Anzieu suggested that Western thought is deceived by the idea that appearances, the outer limit of things, conceal an essence within. In physics, this is documented by our obsession with ever smaller units of matter. Similarly, in philosophy and psychology the process of peeling away layer after layer of false appearances in order to arrive at a deeper truth is the ultimate metaphor of gaining knowledge. But if we look at the human body …
Real Time 2007–2011
Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design
London Metropolitan University
