Design Action Studio for Research, Architecture, and Urbanism

Design Action Studio for Research, Architecture, and Urbanism

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1 year old news but I’ll just leave this right here.

So honored to be awarded a 2021 Graham Foundation Research and Development grant for my ongoing work on the historical and geopolitical entanglements between colonialism, oil, sugar, and revolution in socialist Cuba!

Link in bio.

#grahamfoundation

Peace Braga and RootStudio. Girl Move Academy, Nampula, Mozambique, 2019.

Source: http://thesanzala.com/2020/10/29/academia-girl-move-paz-braga-e-rootstudio/

#archiluv #africanarchitecture #mozambiquianarchitecture #noncanonical #expandthecanon

Alternate street parking isn’t all that bad.

#energyhumanities #energyagenda #historiesandtheoriesofenergy #petroculture #afteroil #environmentalart #artasactivism #environmentalaesthetics #aestheticsofpolitics #politicsofaesthetics #timescale

MIT Thresholds 49: Supply is out! Check out my article on the entanglements between colonialism, oil, architecture, and revolution in socialist Cuba. Link to “Supply and Subjectivity” in bio.

Reinaldo Togores Fernandez and Carlos Lopez Quintanilla with Andres Garrudo and Heriberto Duverger. Maximo Gomez Baez Vocational School, Camaguey, Cuba, 1976. #archiluv #cubanmodernism #revolucion #grayperiod #noncanonical #expandthecanon #latinameri

Marcel Breuer & Herbert Beckhard. Geller House II, Lawrence, New York, 1968-69.

Via Espacio Gris

#archiluv #concrete #breuer #brutalism #archtheoryandhistory #espaciogris

Colectivo C733. Mercado Público en Matamoros, México, 2020.

#archiluv #latinamericanarchitecture #mexicanarchitecture #noncanonical #expandthecanon

TNA. Gate Villa, Ibaraki, Japan 2013.

Via FIG Projects.

#archiluv #japanesearchitecture #architectureandenvironment

Looking forward to this book by the amazing Andreas Malm.

#energyhumanities #energyagenda #energypolitics #historiesandtheoriesofenergy #petroculture #petromodernities #afteroil #aestheticsofpolitics #politicsofaesthetics

Pezo von Ellrichshausen. INES Innovation Center, Concepción, Chile, 2021.

Via FIG Projects

#archiluv #archtheoryandhistory #latinamericanarchitecture #chileanarchitecture #noncanonical #expandthecanon

Augusto H. Alvarez. Tres Picos N° 47, Polanco, Ciudad de México, Mexico 1959.

Via FIG Projects

#archiluv #archtheoryandhistory #latinamericanmodernism #latinamericanarchitecture #mexicanmodernism #mexicanarchitecture #noncanonical #expandtheca

Reorienting Architectural Theory, Student Provocations: Modernity and Coloniality Series.

#reorientingarchitecturaltheory #expandthecanon #archtheoryandhistory #architecturalpedagogy #modernityandcoloniality #keanuniversity #michaelgravescollege #

Reorienting Architectural Theory, Student Provocations: Modernity and Coloniality Series.

#reorientingarchitecturaltheory #expandthecanon #archtheoryandhistory #architecturalpedagogy #modernityandcoloniality #keanuniversity #michaelgravescollege #

Reorienting Architectural Theory, Student Provocations: Modernity and Coloniality Series.

#reorientingarchitecturaltheory #expandthecanon #archtheoryandhistory #architecturalpedagogy #modernityandcoloniality #keanuniversity #michaelgravescollege #

Reorienting Architectural Theory, Student Provocations: Modernity and Coloniality Series.

#reorientingarchitecturaltheory #expandthecanon #archtheoryandhistory #architecturalpedagogy #modernityandcoloniality #keanuniversity #michaelgravescollege #

Learning about the relationship between rocks and subjectivity before running a pipeline through Heidegger.

#phenomenologyofoil #petromodernity #petrocoloniality #energyagenda #unthinkingoil #carbontheory #reorientingarchitecturaltheory #earththeory

Dania Abojabara, “Green Energy Generator: Architecture and Urbanism for a Post-Carbon Future,” Fall 2020 Graduate Complex Program Studio: Plainfield Powershift, Kean University School of Public Architecture.

#keanuniversity #michealgrave

Elise Dusenshine, “Housing the Displaced: Architecture and Humanity in Plainfield, NJ,” Fall 2020 Graduate Complex Program Studio: Plainfield Powershift, Kean University School of Public Architecture.

#keanuniversity #michealgravescolleg