Making Through Love

I'm focused less on what a building is, or becomes, and more on how we build things. And the critical element which I’m exploring in this ‘how' is love. Which is to say I’m also not proposing a specific methodology for how things should be built, but rather exploring more of a fluctuating and volatile field of relationships and bonds in which we...

the architecture of violence; constructing Rotterdam, from the polder parcel to urban housing

Violence in relation to architecture is typically viewed in relation to sudden cataclysmic disruptions such as war, natural disaster, slum clearances, or attacks of some kind; or as a blatant exercise of containment such as prisons, borders, or surveillance watch towers; or perhaps in the construction of buildings via slave labor, or monuments...