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‘Welcome to Tribuneville’ video animation (II) – Teaser Trailer.
A teaser trailer [using the upgraded version of this drawing featured in my cartoon for Arquine #105] of my future installation in Chicago’s 150 Media Stream (an event organized in… Read more
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‘Welcome to Tribuneville. A Tale of the Pneumatic Passage feat. MAS Context’ [Cartoon and article for Arquine #105: ‘Mediations’].
2022 has been a year rich in ephemeris and events: it was the 40th anniversary of Blade Runner, it marked our first decade without Moebius (I mean French cartoonist Jean… Read more
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Looking Backwards: ‘Chicago Tribune Tower Competition at 100’ (Reprise): ‘Welcome to Tribuneville’ Animation(I)
Welcome to Tribuneville. Video animation by Andrés Jiménez-Lobera. Fall 2022. [Comes from the previous blog entry]: As an afterthought, and just a few days short of the event Chicago Tribune… Read more
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At last: Looking Backwards: ‘Chicago Tribune Tower Competition at 100’ (2022)
Welcome to Tribuneville. Original pencil drawing. Summer 2023 version [excerpt] Back in early 2022, personally a terrible year, but also a year full of significant anniversaries, I was making my… Read more
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RU15? Fifteen years of Klaustoon’s Blog
(Image stolen from ) So, just like that, on March 10 this randomly-updated blog became 15 years old, also marking, more or less, the kickstarting of my sort-of-career as an… Read more
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Blast from the Past: ‘Caricature architettoniche’ (2015)
Second in this series of posts recovering stuff that I should be posted back in the day but never did is Gabriele Neri’s fantastic 2015 book Caricature architettoniche, Satira e… Read more
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‘The fantasy worlds of Klaus’ – Article in Domus #1085 (Dec, 2023)
click to enlarge Throughout the last year, Gabriele Neri, professor at the Schools of Architecture of Torino and Mendrisio, has been publishing the section ‘Archisatire’ in Domus Magazine. Among many… Read more
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Looking backwards: Making A drawing (Klaustoon Style)
Welcome to the first in what I intend to be a series of posts recovering past works and events that, due to the interference of real life in at its… Read more
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[Intermission]: CFP: ‘Juste pour Rire. Laughter, Humor, Satire, Architecture, and Everything in Between’
Kazumasa Yamashita: Face House (Kao no ie), Kyoto, Japón/ Japan, 1973-1974. Photograph © Demas Rusli. https://www.demasrusli.com/ And now for something completely different: for those interested in such things (scholars on… Read more
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Forthcoming…
A fleeting glimpse of my next cartoon for Arquine #105: Mediations, found at Arquine’s Instagram account. And, yes, it has to do with this (and this). Read more
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Klaustoons Belgium, 2023-2024
After some difficult months (two whole years, really), and some serious negligence, when it comes to updating this already long-time neglected blog of mine, let me add just a quick… Read more
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The Madness of King Charles (Monstruous Carbuncles, Green Cities, Inkpots and other Royal Concerns)
The disappearance of Elizabeth II certainly marked the end of an era. She has been not only one of the longest-reigning monarchs but also an exceptional witness to events and… Read more
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Tenochtihuacán: A Tale of the Pneumatic passage.
From my ‘ArquiNoir’ section for @Arquine no. 95: 500 years (Spring 2021) Read more
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Happy New Year! (Klaus-style)
Late as usual, but later than ever: Have a Happy New Year. Not from Andrew Tate Read more
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Coming soon: ‘Welcome to Tribuneville’
Let me share this gif while I write a proper post about our celebration of the Chicago Tribune Tower Competition in 1922, and the drawing I produced for the occasion. Read more
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The Art of Living (Inside)- An Homage to Saul Steinberg for Arquine #92
Today would have marked Saul Steinberg’s (Râmnicu Sărat, June 15, 1914 – New York, May 12, 1999) 108th birthday, so, since I haven’t posted anything since January, I thought this could be a great occasion to… Read more
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Happy Anniversary!
It’s been a year already? Yikes! Time flies when you’re… hum… well, ok. Read more
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Happy 2022!
So, late as usual, let me wish all of you a happy New Year. This cartoon was started within a reasonable time in advance of January 1st, but some crazy… Read more
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Merry Christmas! [‘This is Fine’ Klaus Christmas Edition]
Later than ever (as usual), here’s my annual, not very enthusiastic Season Greetings, with a nod and a tip of the hat to K.C. Green’s ‘On Fire’ (‘Gunshow’ #648 strip),… Read more
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The Man Who Would Be Rome. Albert Uderzo (1927-2020)
Today would have been Albert Uderzo’s 94th birthday, had it not been for the unfortunate heart attack that took his life in March 2020, at the ripe old age of… Read more
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Happy 2021! (aka: UnTrumped!)
Click to enlarge At last! And about time, if you ask me (to wish you a Happy New Year, I mean). It’s been quite a while since I last drew… Read more
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The year(s) of living dangerously.
Late as usual, but later than ever, here’s finally that cartoon I’d been teasing with (here) in the last days of 2020. In my defense, I have to say it… Read more
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Merry Sterrett Christmas!
So, after recycling the same old drawings for a few years, on this ill-fated year I decided to take some time off and draw a proper Christmas card. As usual,… Read more
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¿Por qué la Arquitectura se sigue dibujando? / Why is Architecture still being drawn?
Next Saturday, November 14, I will be giving a two-hour seminar in the course ‘¿Por qué la Arquitectura se sigue dibujando? – Ocho Experiencias de Dibujo Arquitectónico’ organized by Publishing… Read more
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‘Letter to a Young Architect’ 2-page comic for the Architectural Review no. 1474
Back in late July, Elly Beaumont, from the Architectural Review, contacted me regarding their -then- forthcoming issue, which would feature, in R.M. Rilke fashion, a series of ‘Letters to a… Read more
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We don’t need no education (Happy World Architecture Day 2020)
Earlier today I was getting ready to post about my contribution to the AR’s ‘Letters to a Young Architect’ special issue, which in my case, has quite a special focus… Read more
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Looking backwards: Remembering Mextropoli 2018
As you may know, from September 5 until today, September 7 2020, Mextropoli, Festival de Arquitectura y Ciudad is celebrating its 7th edition, ‘(Un)sustainable City’ in Mexico City Read more
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Coming Soon… (Part II)
Soon in the Architectural Review. Read more
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Coming Soon…
Find it at your closest store very, very soon. Read more
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A Short (Architectural) History of the 20th Century Review, Celebration, and Tribute to 40 Years of Robert Crumb’s “A Short History of America” – Article for ARQ #103
In 1979, Robert Crumb published what would later become one of his most unusual and also most celebrated works outside the realm of underground in the Fall issue of CoEvolution… Read more
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An Analysis of “A Short History of America” by Robert Crumb.
As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn’t much like it. I… Read more
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A Short (Architectural) History of the 20th Century. Review, Celebration and Tribute to 40 Years of “A Short History of America” by Robert Crumb
As you’ll probably know, if you’ve been following my work in any capacity, one of the main reasons why I persist in my cartooning career is that it provides me… Read more
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CoronaMaison (II): La Villa, Ça Va?
Ok, so, as you already know if you follow muy twitter feed, I finally gave in and draw a second entry on the CoronaMaison (‘CoronaMansion’) challenge, so as to pretend… Read more
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Eisenmansion (A Klaus Entry on the Coronamaison Challenge)
On these days of seclusion, internet is becoming for many, more than ever, the only contact with the world outside (as if it wasn’t before already, for some). And for… Read more
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Cover of Arquine #91: (Un)sustainable City
Last in this series, and at a point where I thought I had lost my ability to be surprised, has been Miquel Adriá’s and Alejandro Hernández’s idea to use the… Read more
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Iberian Tour 2020: ‘KLAUS: 10 Years of Architecture and Cartoons’ at ETSA – UNAV’
Following last month’s lecture at the School of Architecture of Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Barcelona, next Friday I’ll be presenting a retrospective of my work at the School of… Read more
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January 2020: Lecture at UIC’s ‘Foros 2020’ lecture series (Recap)
This is something that should have been done almost a month ago, but, as my recaps of my own events go, it’s possibly one of my teeniest delays (there are… Read more
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Happy 2020! (sort of)
It’s been an wful amount of years since I haven’t drawn a Christmas -or New Year- greeting cardtoon (I just made that up as I typed), and I thought it… Read more
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Why I hate Blade Runner
I saw Blade Runner for the first time on the end-of-the-Summer Friday night of September 2, 1988. I remember it with such accuracy because, at a time where there were… Read more
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Architecture Between the Panels. Comics, cartoons, and graphic narrative in the (New) Neo-Avant-garde.
Last July, Architectural Design (AD) published ‘Re-imagining the Avant-Garde: Revisiting the Architecture of the 1960s and 1970s’. This special issue “explores the ongoing importance of the work of Architects associated… Read more
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Prêt-à-Porter
Our model Alejandro Hernández (@otrootroblog), editor in Arquine, lectures with style some weeks ago at the ISAD in Chihuahua. In the picture, he’s wearing the retro T-shirt ‘Hope’, from the… Read more
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Quotidian (T)errors: Hyperbole, Caricature, Deformation and Other Catalysts of Invention – Article for Bitácora Magazine
As a way to celebrate this year’s anniversary (the 10 years of Klaustoon’s Blog, I mean, not the advent of Blade Runner’s 2019), the next months will see some posts… Read more
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Klaustoon’s Blog: 10 years and still here.
When, 5 years ago, I realized this blog had reached its 5 year mark, and I set out to write an anniversary post of sorts, I distinctly remember thinking: ‘Really?… Read more
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And the Pritzker Goes to… [A Short-short History of the Pritzker Prize]
So, since tomorrow, March 5, 2019, will see the announcement of the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize, I thought it might be worth to whet (y)our appetite with this short piece… Read more
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Klaustoon at Canterbury’s UCA (Multistory Lecture Series)
Just a quick note to let you know that next Thursday (Feb 28th), I will be joining the Multistory Guest Lecture Series at the Canterbury School of Architecture (UCA -… Read more
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British Tour 2019
So, continuing with the crazy -and lengthy- trip season of 2018, starting on next Thursday and till the end of July, I’ll move my headquarters to that island up on… Read more
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Chilean Tour 2018
From October 22nd through 29th, I’ll be in Santiago de Chile (with some short trips to Valparaiso and perhaps some other places), thanks to the kindness and persistence of Miguel… Read more
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Print (&) Run
Click to enlarge A collection of prints of past cartoons from Arquine, A10, Uncube, as well as a few others published in the last 10 years, en route to Santiago… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #27: Cross Polin Nation.
Another blast from the past. As I was going through a checklist of my cartoons for Uncube, I found out I hadn’t posted this one, either Read more
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Rotor: Creative deconstruction – Illustration for A10 #67
I thought I had already uploaded all the cartoons I had done for Indira van’t Kloosteer’s section ‘Interchange: Architects in Action’. ‘Interchange’ ran from March 2014 through April 2016 in… Read more
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Mexico Tour (Reprise)
A few months ago, not long after coming back from my US Tour, I traveled to Mexico for the first time in my life (shame on me, I know), in… Read more
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Dancing about Architecture: A conversation with architect and cartoonist Klaus
I’ve been neglecting posting this since April, when it was published, after teasing about it for several months on twitter. But, since it took me ages to actually deliver it… Read more
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Processes: Inking a cartoon for Arquine #76: ‘Other Fronts’ (2016)
Click to enlarge (quite a bit!). From the ‘ArquiNoir by Klaus’ section. The magazine can be purchased here. Read more
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Processes: Penciling the poster for the UNL Hyde Series
A quick glimpse of the process of penciling the poster for last year’s Hyde Lecture Series, at the request of the über-nice Karles: Sarah and David Karle, from the University… Read more
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Processes (Eppur si muove)
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Blog-os and Logos
Click to enlarge Old visitors of this blog (are there any?) will remember that at some point before we changed the layout, there used to be a header image with… Read more
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‘Envisioning New Spatial Organizations’, at the Chicago Design Museum
Thank you all for coming yesterday to the Chicago Design Museum, and attend the event ‘Envisioning New Spatial Organizations’, organized by Iker Gil, editor in Chief of Chicago Architecture &… Read more
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Klaustoon US Tour 2018
So, after two short visits to Newcastle (thanks, Steve!), and Glasgow (Thanks, Jonathan!), tomorrow I start the US leg of my 2017-18 Tour Read more
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Old Stuff: Dossier in Arq’a Magazine
A couple years ago, Paula Melâneo, editor of Arq’a, emailed me asking if I’d be interested in including a some of my work in the ‘dossier’ section of their magazine.… Read more
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In De Toneelschuur
Amazingly, it’s been almost 4 years since we put together our special issue of MAS Context: Narrative, mostly thanks to chief editor Iker Gil’s help and persistence. In it, we… Read more
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Barozzi / Veiga: Vagabond architects: Illustration for A10 Magazine #65
Recently (meaning yesterday), Barozzi and Veiga were in the news due to the inclusion of one of their non-built designs, the Neanderthal Museum in Piloña, Spain (2010), in Blade Runner… Read more
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Hyde Lecture Series. University of Nebraska – Lincoln, 2017-18
A little backstory for this one: A few months ago, Sarah and David Karle, from the University of Nebraska Lincoln contacted me, asking if I’d join this year’s Hyde Lecture… Read more
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The [not so] Fine Line – A Conversation with Sophie Lovell
In February 2016, Uncube Magazine published an issue that had been in the works for quite some time at that point, ‘Walk the Line’, focusing on architectural representation and drawing… Read more
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Jürgen Mayer H.: Georgian wonderland – Illustration for A10 #56 [not]
Click to enlarge So, the story behind this one: As the title sort of hints at, this wasn’t actually published in A10 #56 -The interview was, but not the illustration.… Read more
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ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles]: Inclusive Archipolitics – Illustration for A10 #64
Today’s post belongs in the series of illustrations I did for the ‘Interchange’ interviews published in A10 magazine over the last 2 years. As you may know, A10 went out… Read more
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Drawn Theories / Teorie disegnate
From June 10 to July 3, 2016, the Ca’ Pesaro Museum of Moder Art in Venice will be holding the exhibition Drawn Theories / Teorie disegnate. The exhibition, curated by… Read more
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Chicago Tour
In this week and the following, I’ll be giving a couple of lectures in Chicago. The first one will be a short presentation in the third edition of MAS Context… Read more
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Book Release: Forty&Famous: 10 interviews with successful young European architects
So, after some waiting, finally my book with Indira Van’t Klooster is out! As you’ll remember, if you’ve been around for a while, back in 2014 Indira van ‘t Klooster,… Read more
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KOKO Architects: Temporal layers – Illustration for A10 #63
Since their start in 2000 KOKO Architects (Andrus Koresaar and RaivoKotov) have evolved on the tides of developments in Estonia, employing an intriguing combination of graphics and modest servitude, and… Read more
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Chartier Dalix: Fluidity on all scales – Illustration for A10 #68
Pascale Dalix and Frédéric Chartier started their office 10 years ago. Coming from big offices like Herzog & De Meuron and Dominique Perrault it’s easy to recognize where they learned… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #26: Robo-Hunting
I’ve wanted to do one of these since I discovered Tom Gauld’s cultural cartoons for The Guardian. Of course, mine pales in the comparison, but still. check your robo-architectural skills! Read more
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Numerus Klausus #25: Another Brick in the World (aka: Howard ‘Roach)
This cartoon belongs to these occasions where I think I’m making a very obvious joke on our tendency to destroy our own world by means of showing a post-apocalyptic scenario.… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #24: Fifty Years Inside the Bubble
Again, 2015 marked another 5-decade anniversary: this time, it was the publication of Reyner Banham’s ‘A Home is Not A House’ in the April 1965 of Art in America. ‘A… Read more
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Assemble: The Power of Many – Illustration for A10 #66
In any case, for those who have stopped by here faithfully these last 6 months just to find there was nothing new, let’s dust off an old piece, published some… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #23: Pritzker 2015 – Missed it by ‘this’ much
Back in March The Pritzker Award Committee announced that this year’s laureate would be Frei Otto. This was excellent news, especially for all megastructural-age nostalgics such as myself… if not… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #21: Pimp my Warsaw
The original cartoon can be found as originally published in the “Klaus Kube” section of Uncube Magazine #31: Poland, edited by Sophie Lovell, Florian Heilmeyer, Ron Wilson and Elvia Wilk… Read more
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Exhibitions 2015: ‘Chatter: Architecture Talks Back’ at the Art Institute of Chicago
So, after last year’s relative silence, 2015 is featuring an also relative back to business in terms of exhibition-related events, with a couple of cameos in bigger exhibitions, and maybe… Read more
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Competitive spirit – Illustration for A10 #62
ALA is one of Finland’s success stories, winning a major competition at the age of 30, heading a 40+ employees’ office at 40 and now looking abroad for new opportunities.… Read more
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SO-IL: Reflections from overseas – Illustration for A10 #61
Yes, unfortunately, this year’s scholarly life and my increasing committments with real publishing and its dreadful deadlines has resulted in an almost total neglection of the blog. So, in order… Read more
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Julien de Smedt: On a scale of hybrid – Illustration for A10 #60
n your view, how do design and architecture relate? It starts with architecture; that’s what I have been involved in the longest. MWA [Makers With Agendas] is an extension of… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #20: Creatures of the Night
The original cartoon can be found as originally published in the “Klaus Kube” section of Uncube Magazine #29: After Dark, edited by Sophie Lovell, Florian Heilmeyer, Ron Wilson and Elvia… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #18: Dawn of the Planet of the Grapes
Ok, so, now I got my life back, I’ll possibly be updating the blog with all the stuff which, forcefully, has kept being produced throughout all these months. And, for… Read more
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You Are Not Charlie Hebdo [But You Want Them There]
Caught in the quiet desperation of my mundane daily tasks, which for the last 6 months have meant an interrupted 24/7 working routine, I had finally decided -‘given up’ would… Read more
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WWAA: Freedom of Flexibility – Illustration for A10 #59
The Polish pavilion in Shanghai is probably the most famous and also most evocative project of WWAA. How would you describe it? How does it relate to your other work?… Read more
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#REM70 [II]: Biennale non Banale [Numerus Klausus #16]
So, in order to continue adding my dubious contribution to Archdaily’s celebration of Mr K’s 70th birthday, here you have a cartoon originally published in Uncube Magazine #23, Mexico City Read more
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#REM70 [Feat. ArchiNOIR]
So, apparently -and because they directly told me so- the guys from ArchDaily are up for celebrating Rem Koolhaas’s 70th birthday, which seems to be today. They made an online… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #17: Alles War Architektur
Limited and traditional definitions of architecture and its means have lost their validity. Today the environment as a whole is the goal of our activities—and all the media of its… Read more
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Jaque Disobedients: Illustration for A10 Magazine
Andrés Jaque (*1971, Madrid) is not a typical architect. His radical stance breaking the traditional boundaries of architecture makes of him is one of the most relevant figures in the… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #15: Underwater Zoom (‘E la nave va…’)
The original cartoon can be found as originally published in the “Klaus Kube” section of Uncube Magazine #22: Water, edited by Sophie Lovell, Florian Heilmeyer, Elvia Wilk et al, which… Read more
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It’s not easy Being Kool – Illustration and text for Clog: REM
For those who were already, let’s say, ‘architecturally active’ in the 90s, the second half of the decade featured an increasing presence of Koolhaas-isms in the architecture published by architectural… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #14: [Intermission] A vision of the pneumatic passage (I) – Amaphonia
The original cartoon can be found as originally published in the “Klaus Kube” section of Uncube Magazine #21: Acoustics, edited by Sophie Lovell, Florian Heilmeyer, Jessica Bridger, Elvia Wilk et… Read more
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Piano Player Number Two: Illustration for A10 Magazine
Click to enlarge Something a little bit different this time. A couple months ago, Indira van ‘t Klooster, editor-in-chief of A10 magazine contacted me asking if I would be interested in making some… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #13: Mars Attracts! (AKA: Mars One… and two, and three…)
Click to enlarge “More than 100,000 people have applied to be a part of the Mars One project, which aims to colonize the red planet starting in 2022. Out of the… Read more
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The Pharrell Review – Cartoon for The Architectural Review
Our built environment and the places we live in are so important to us, socially, economically, environmentally and culturally. Not just on an obvious day-to-day basis, but in relation to… Read more
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5 years of Klaustoon’s Blog
5 years ago today, I posted my first entry on Klaustoon’s Blog. Actually, the blog itself had been active since the day before (March 9, 2009), thanks to Dan Cashen,… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #12: The Big FAT Kill (AKA: It’s a Fat, Fat, Fat, World)
They’ve built schools like wedding cakes and are making a real-life gingerbread house with Grayson Perry. Now, in an unexpected twist, the mischievous London architecture practice FAT has announced it… Read more
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2013 Recap (III): Goodbye, Topolinia
Last, but not least on the list (too much, huh?) of interesting stuff I was somehow involved in busy 2013 was being featured in “Goodbye Topolinia” [Malcor D’Edizioni, 2013], a… Read more
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2013 Recap (II): Musings on the Napoli Comicon
One of the highlights of 2013 -which has certainly been the busiest year in terms of Klaus-related events so far- was the unexpected invitation to participate in the 2013 Comicon… Read more
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2013 recap: Numerus Klausus
So, before January is over, I’d like to post the first one in a series of posts that look back at some of the stuff that happened in 2013 but… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #10: Shardnado! (AKA: So Long, Piano Man)
Why is it the tallest? I don’t really remember. I don’t really care. It was actually taller at the beginning, it was 400 meters, but then aeronautics came and they… Read more
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A New Book Yesterday: NEW RELEASE!: MAS Context: NARRATIVE
So… finally! After more than a year in the works, the 20th issue of MAS Context, a special issue under the motto “Narrative”, is out. Talks about this issue started… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #09: Faulty Towers (Viñoly Attacks!)
Developers have promised urgent action to “cover up” the Walkie Talkie skyscraper in the City after an ultra-bright light reflected from the building melted a Jaguar car on the streets… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #08: One of My Turns [An Homage to Mark Fisher]
Click to enlarge “He flew Tina Turner over her audience on a huge mechanical arm, drove U2 through their arena inside a mirror-studded lemon, and thrust the Rolling Stones between… Read more
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2012 Recap: MAS Context Analog | Chicago
The lapse from 2012 to 2013 and the months that followed have been a particularly busy period, both regarding my work as Klaus and my scholarly life, so almost a… Read more
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Numerus klausus #07: Remember A Time
Architecture, one of the most revered professions around the world… For a more accurate depiction of the current situation, check On Starvechitecture I and II. Read more
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Numerus Klausus #05: Metropol Para-poli
Seville’s flashy new showcase is held together by extra-strong glue – but not quite enough to make its many parts connect. Oh my God, it’s an icon. How very last… Read more
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Post #100: “Ways to be Critical”. A conversation with Brendan Cormier and Jimenez Lai for Volume
This blog arrived at its 100th post at some point during its fourth year of existence. It’s a rather paradoxical celebration, then, since this sort-of private milestone comes at a… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #04: Cloud Encounters of the 911th Kind
Dutch firm MVRDV has received harsh criticism since they revealed the proposal for two luxury residential towers in South Korea, named after its inspiration, The Cloud. The two towers are… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #03: Animal Farm / On Recycling
Our Design for the Parrish Art Museum is a reinterpretation of a very Herzog & De Meuron typology, the traditional house form… Read more
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Numerus Klausus #02: You’re so Kool
This comes from Uncube Magazine # 07 : Off-places. Read more
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Uncubed! (On “Numerus Klausus”)
Several weeks ago, Jessica Bridger, one of the editors of Berlin-based online magazine Uncube wrote me asking if I’d like to start an ongoing collaboration with them, and -being the… Read more
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Happy New Year (sort of)
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Banham Style
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“Architectural Narratives”: An Exhibition for MAS Context: ANALOG
Tomorrow, Saturday, October 13 2012, Jimenez Lai (of Bureau Spectacular fame) and I will be presenting the joint exhibition ARCHITECTURAL NARATIVES, as part of the second edition of MAS Context:… Read more
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Tell me more! (Article for Conditions magazine #10: Gossip)
Digging into the dirty laundry of the architectural star-system is, in any case, neither a recent phenomenon nor a curiosity exclusively circumscribed to today’s divas. The mouth-to-ear airing of our… Read more
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Three Little Worlds: Klaus Toons at the Architecture Foundation
On Tuesday, July 24, I will be opening a small exhibition at the Architecture Foundation in London. The exhibit will be housed as an installation within an exhibition in the… Read more
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Learning to talk architecture
New trends and new times, new market conditions and newer communicational means are also creating, it seems, new modes of architectural production-consumption and along with them, an allegedly new type… Read more
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Enter… The Asian Giant (Pritzker Prize 2012 ceremony)
In all of my architectural design activities I have constantly asked myself the following questions: How can an architecture founded on craftsmanship survive in today’s world? What is the relevance… Read more
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Russian Connection
Just in time to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Mathias Rust’s famous vacation to Moscow, Russian Magazine Project International features this month an old cartoon from this blog Read more
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Zerutik Sua Dator. Guernica, 1937-2012
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Koolhaas at the GSD: Current Preoccupations
Earlier this month Rem Koolhaas returned to the Harvard GSD in order to give one of his infrequent and multitudinous conferences. Filed under the motto “current preoccupations”, the talk, which… Read more
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Full House vs. Full(er) House. Illustration for MAS Context: Ownership
Peter Reyner Banham made his entry into this blog by means of a cartoon that sprang from a suggestion by Kazys Varnelis, who was doing his annual re-reading of Banham’s… Read more
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Pritzker 2012: Who they gonna call?
Later today (in my time zone), the jury of the Pritzker Prize will reveal the name of the laureate for the 2012 edition of the award Read more
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Get a Job(s) / Close encounters in Cupertino 2. Illustration for Clog: Apple
For all its promise of unlimited connetivity, Apple´s design seems to leave almost everything out. Apple has built a style on impenetrability, providing us with sleek, polished technological gizmos that… Read more
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Merry Christmas (Manic Corbusian Snowmen Celebrate Christmas)
Hm… Not feeling particularly inspired to draw something new this year, so I decided to recycle -yet one more time- an old drawing, where I had these characters that show… Read more
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Hypertourism. Illustration for (in)forma 06
At some point at the beginning of the Summer, Darwin Marrero, Assistant Dean at the School of Architecture of the University of Puerto Rico contacted me in order to contribute… Read more
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Get a Job(s)
The image in this post has been clipped from a bigger cartoon-proposal for Clog: Apple, the second installment of Clog Magazine that focuses on Apple´s architecture and design. Clog: Apple… Read more
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Harvard Exhibition: Dispatches from the GSD – 75 years of design (Reprise)
Last week, during the Alumni Weekend at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the exhibition “Dispatches from the GSD: 075 Years of Design” was officially inaugurated Read more
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God Save the King [Steve Jobs, in Memoriam]
Steven Paul Jobs, February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011 Read more
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Happy World Architecture Day 2011 [“happy”, he said…]
“‘So far so good,’ said she, when I had ended my story, ‘and now pay attention to what I am about to tell you- heaven itself, indeed, will recall it… Read more
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YES IS MORE or Less [Zoom!/zzzzrrtt!/thud!/blaam! – me not] – Full text
But BIG’s Yes is More is none of these. Nor should it be. Displaying his trademark proactive approach Bjarke Ingels takes comics at face value. Yes is More is not… Read more
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YES IS MORE or Less [Zoom!/zzzzrrtt!/thud!/blaam! – me not] – Klaus in CLOG Magazine 01
I rarely publish articles under Klaus’s name (I have a whole different personality just for that). However, when Kyle May approached me in order to collaborate with a short review… Read more
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Harvard Exhibition: Dispatches from the GSD – 75 years of design (Some Klaus inside)
The 2011-12 academic year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and in order to celebrate it, the GSD will host a number… Read more
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On Star(ve)chitecture
Where it all came from Read more
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Souto de Moura wins Pritzker Prize 2011
Porto-based architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has been named the 2011 Pritzker Prize laureate for his considerable achievements in the field of architecture and the built environment. The selection of… Read more
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Help Japan
Japan was hit by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded on March 11. The magnitude-9.0 quake spawned a deadly tsunami that slammed into the nation’s east coast, leaving a… Read more
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The New City Reader: Food (IV). I’ve Got the Obligatory Hendrix’s Perm
This is the last of the four cartoons I did for The New City Reader: Food Section, that got lost in November’s posting craze, that time when we all thought… Read more
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Are Charrettes old School? Illustration for Harvard Design Magazine
An illustration for Dan Willis’s article Are Charrette’s Old School?, published in Harvard Design Magazine 33: Design Pracices Vol. 2. Below, the published version Read more
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The New City Reader: Classifieds
Cartoon for The New City Reader: Classifieds, guest-edited by Leagues and Legions and drawn quite in a rush, which explains the lack of shadowing Read more
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The New City Reader: The Weather Forecast Inception
Cartoon for The New City Reader: Weather Section, a continuous 3-spread graphic that includes a large city expanse with magnified close-ups pertaining building materials/architectural objects and their relation to weather Read more
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The New City Reader: Lifestyles (Diggin’ our own Graves)
Subject: sex! From: Kazys Varnelis To: Klaus Cc: Robert Sumrell Read more
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From NY to Portimão: Photographic Marathon
Last night, at a conference-dialogue at ISMAT, we launched a Photographic Marathon to go along with the Exhibition Klaus.Toon: From NY to Portimão, organised in collaboration with the Delegação do… Read more
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Klaus in Portimão
From November 26 to December 26 2010, there will be an ongoing cartoon exhibition in Portimão (Portugal). It is an initiative of the Delegação Algarve of the Ordem dos Arquitectos… Read more
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The New City Reader: (Un)Real Estate
Cartoon for The New City Reader issue VII: Real State, with contributions by Peter Tolkin, Mabel O. Wilson, Carmen Argote, Chloë Bass, Brigette Borders, John Cantwell, Catherine Ingraham, Marisa Jahn/CUP,… Read more
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The New City Reader: Food (II). Less is More (Alienating)
The Food Section of The New City Reader, curated by William Prince, Krista Ninivaggi, and Nicola Twilley will “hit the stands” at the New Museum next Sunday Read more
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The New City Reader: Food (I). A Man for Four Seasons
Next week’s section of The New City Reader revolves around food and (in) the city This issue has been curated by William Prince & Krista Ninivaggi from Park, and Nicola… Read more
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Klaus in eVolo Magazine 03: Cities of Tomorrow
The above is a (slight variation on a) cartoon just published in the Fall/Winter issue of New York- based, Carlo Aiello-directed eVolo Magazine Read more
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The New City Reader
This cartoon is a collaboration for The New City Reader: A Newspaper of Public Space, a project created by the hyperactive and always brilliant director of the NetLab, Kazys Varnelis,… Read more
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Latour in Urbicande
After a couple of weeks of obscurity, I’ve decided to shed some light on this drawing, a cross-breeding between Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory and Schuiten&Peeters’ La fièvre d’Urbicande (with a… Read more
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Le Grand Tour (On Being Glocal)
Universalism used to be a rather simple affair: the more detached from local traditions, the more universal you became. If the stoics could be called ‘citizens of the world’, it’s… Read more
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Koolhaas receives Golden Lion Award
The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for the 12th International Architecture Exhibition (Venice, Giardini and Arsenale, 29th August – 21st November, 2010) has been awarded to the Pope of Architecture,… Read more
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Iterations: SANAA get Pritzker Prize 2010
Now that’s been a couple of weeks after the Pritzker Ceremony, and following my policy of never publishing anything when it’s due, I decided to finish the month with a… Read more
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A Home is not a Mouse
When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters -when it contains so many… Read more
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But Today we collect Banham (variation)
it is difficult not to suspect that presented with scenes from cultures that he does not understand he hopes to gizmo them into comprehensible form… There is (…) a distinct… Read more
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The Great Gizmo in the Sky
The man who changed the face of America had a gizmo, a gadget, a gimmick – in his hand, in his back pocket, across the saddle, on his hip, in… Read more
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Pritzker Prize 2010. (NopasSANAA)
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in the architectural firm, SANAA, have been chosen as the 2010 Laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize Read more
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The Temptations of St. Lebbeus
The High Houses are proposed as part of the reconstruction of Sarajevo after the siege of the city that lasted from 1992 though late 1995. Their site is the badly… Read more
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Great Moments of Architectural Theory (II): Eisenmania (or The Corruption of the Modern)
While classical origins were thought to have their source in a divine or natural order and modern origins were held to derive their value from deductive reason, `not-classical’ origins can… Read more
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O(l)ther Stuff: (Great Moments of Architectural Theory): Little Sylvia in Connoisseurland
This dates back to 2007, when Sylvia Lavin explained how when she was a child, she used to visit Art Museums with her parents, both Art Historians. While they studied… Read more
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Iterations: Marketing Strategies (I): Ciro Najle’s Motherhouse
ust for the sake of clarity, I’d like to make it clear this does not reflect neither an unconscious -or conscious- obsession with Ciro Najle -whose own obsession I find… Read more
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A Momentary Lapse of Politics
I just found it very shocking when I read the headlines Read more
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(“The”) Man On the Moon
This one was meant to be ready for the anniversary of Man’s arrival to the Moon… But it rested unfinished in a drawer till now. For more info about the… Read more
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Pritzker Prize 2009: Zumthor’s Rough Stuff
BACK IN BLACK! After a long and (expectedly) unproductive Summer vacation, Klaus: The Blog resumes its activity! And, in this academic year, we’ll feature more and (more) bitter comment on… Read more
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GSD Lectures: Ciro Najle’s Mother House
From the Archives of Trays. See also Read more
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Mohsen Mostafavi and Sanford Kwinter: Hairstyles
Mohsen Mostafavi and Sanford Kwinter, “On Conjecture” Read more
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GSD Lectures 2008: Parametric Performances
Parametric Performances Lecture @GSD Webcasts Read more
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On the Sources of Form: MOS’s Ps.1 (Final take)
Afterparty. Afterparty in flicker Read more
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Iterations (III): Koolhaas, Kwinter, Bhabha: ecological Urbanism Conference
Discarded version of the Bhabha-Kwinter-Koolhaas Cartoon that gives a better idea of the original drawing Read more
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O(l)ther Stuff: Hayslloween
From a 2006 proposal for a GSD Halloweeen Party Poster. Any similarity to real Michael Hayses is a coincidence, unfortunately Read more
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Iterations (II): Changes Step by Step
For those of you that wonder how these things are done, here you can have a hint of the process from pencils to finished cartoon Read more
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Iterations: Kunst-Haas
Collage from the installation “KUNST-HAAS”. Harvard GSD, May 2009 Read more
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Klaus in O.M.A.
O.M.A.’s canteen in Rotterdam Read more
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Past Events: Catherine Ingraham’s Animalization
Towards a new theory of life at the GSD Read more
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On Starchitecture
Rem (Koolhaas, not the music band), “The architect planning for the future”, talks to the CNN here Read more
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Commissions (I): Critical Digital at Harvard: Who Cares?
Critical digital conference 2009 Read more
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Past Events: Changes in the GSD
MOHSEN MOSTAFAVI APPOINTED NEW DEAN ON CONJECTURE” MODERATED BY SANFORD KWINTER Read more
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Ecological Urbanism (II): Koolhaas, Kwinter, Bhabha
LIVEBLOGGING KOOLHAAS, BHABHA, KWINTER ECOLOGICAL URBANISM CONFERENCE Read more
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Koolhaas at Harvard: Ecological Urbanism (I)
OOLHAAS TO OPEN ECOLOGICAL URBANISM SYMPOSIUM Read more
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Past Events: Scott Cohen vs. Ben van Berkel
Ben Van Berkel chats with Preston Scott Cohen at Harvard Read more
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Building Services (I): How to Reserve a Room in the GSD (goes wild)
Approved by Paul Scannel, creator of the original crazy flowchart Read more
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Latour and Sloterdijk (III)
What would be amusing, if it had not been such a waste of time, is that “spiritualists” have exerted themselves for three centuries trying to save from the diluvium the… Read more
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Design Strategies: MOS’s PS1 (II)
MOS WINS PS.1 MOS’S “ECO-HUTS” Read more
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Bruno Latour and Peter Sloterdijk (II)
The opposite strategies of naturalization and socialization are able to stupefy the mind only because they are always thought of separately. But as soon as you combine the two moves,… Read more
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Teaching Methods: Wes’ Point
SCOTT COHEN – WES JONES DISCUSSION WES JONES INTERVIEW Read more
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O(L)ther Stuff: An Inconvenient Gore
SPELLINGS AND POTATO(E)S Read more
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Bruno Latour and Peter Sloterdijk (I)
I was born a Sloterdijkian. When, thirty years ago, I was preparing the proofs of Laboratory Life, I had included in the pictures, to the disgust of my scientist informants,… Read more
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Design Strategies: MOS’s PS.1
MOS’S ORDOS 100 Read more
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Design Strategies: Scott Cohen’s Ordos
Scott Cohen’s ordos Read more
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Platform 2008: Under the Mask
GSD Platform 08 GSD Platform 2 Read more