Architectural history today: Where do we stand? Where do we go?
June 2024
Originating from a keynote lecture for the EAHN 2022 Conference, this review aims at mapping the field of architectural history as it presents itself today, tracing recent evolutions and new directions....
The materiality of architecture, between the rise of the Digital Age and the advent of the Anthropocene
September 2024
This paper explores questions of materiality in contemporary architecture in light of emerging developments in the discipline, building on the author’s previous work on the subject. After presenting...
Sustainable urbanism and identity: A holistic perspective for future cities
September 2024
In most contexts, sustainable urbanism is characterized by a focus on the natural environment and ecological sustainability. However, contemporary development practices not only consume extensive land...
Stacking risk: The growing seismic vulnerability of self-built housing in Mexican colonias
June 2025
Despite decades of scholarship on informality and housing precarity in Latin America, seismic risk in self-built urban settlements remains underexplored in architectural and urban discourse. This paper...
Clash detected: On error, risk, and accumulation in architectural models
December 2025
This paper examines the visualization of error, risk, and accumulation in digital architectural models through the media operation of “clash detection.” Also known as an interference check, clash detection...
“Contemporary” and “Chinese” beyond Regionalism: Wang Shu, Li Chengde, and the Pritzker’s interpretation of China
March 2025
The awarding of the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize to Wang Shu, though more than a decade past, remains a significant moment for critical reflection. While recent scholarship has examined Wang’s work...
The Mekong Delta: A patchwork of mud fabrics
December 2025
According to Malleret (1959a), the Mekong River Delta was nothing other than “mud, and people passing by.” The architecture of its territory (Gregotti, 1983) is a vast, ever-evolving plain defined by...
Point by point decay: The wood maps of timber structures
March 2026
This paper examines the carpenter’s staff, a wooden notational instrument used in traditional East Asian timber construction to record and transmit dimensional information for the fabrication and assembly...
Exhibiting architecture: The Venice Biennale 1975–2023
December 2024
Layering confinement: Polar architectures among the 1950s infrastructural programs
December 2025
The history of Arctic and Antarctic explorations is by no means confined to the modern era, yet sustained habitation in these challenging environments did not occur until the postwar years. This paper...
The Climatron’s air: Buckminster Fuller’s domes of metaphysical control
December 2024
In 1959, the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis celebrated the opening of a state-of-the-art greenhouse geodesic dome—named the Climatron—to showcase the effects of controlled climatic conditions...
Stoffwechsel in the Anthropocene
December 2024
The German term Stoffwechsel—literally meaning “change of matter” and translated into English as “metabolism”—describes the exchange process between a living organism and its environment. The term became...
Taming the Rhinoceros: A brief history of a ubiquitous tool
September 2024
At the turn of the millennium, architects and educators, propelled by the demise of critical theory, found a space to speculate about technology’s role in the future of architecture. As Michael Speaks...
Lin Huiyin, House Beautiful, and women’s place in architectural culture in the United States in the 1920s
June 2024
Scholarly discussions of the experiences that Lin Huiyin would have had as a student in the United States between 1924 and 1928 have yet to include the experiences she might have had outside the classroom...
From Rosalind Krauss to Arata Isozaki: Drawing as the expression of architectural concepts
September 2024
The article examines the drawings, prints, and installations of Arata Isozaki as critical expressions of architectural concepts. Building on Rosalind Krauss’s reading of Peter Eisenman’s work, it explores...
Archives: In Process. Atelier Deshaus, Long Museum, Shanghai
September 2024
Sites of resistance in Puerto Rico: A feminist perspective
June 2025
This article explores how feminist agents in Puerto Rico are redefining public space through acts of resistance, care, and co-creation. It addresses the marginalization of women under patriarchal and...
Re-cultivating industrial fragments
Available online 12 May 2026
What follows is an edited version of a presentation delivered at the international symposium “Studies in Materialistic Historiography” at Tongji University in Shanghai in June 2025. Through two case...
Material Neoplatonism: Michelangelo’s architectural folios after the Codex Coner, 1515-1518
September 2025
The study challenges the claim that Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) conceptually isolated Ancient Roman architectural forms, reinventing them in the intangible realm of abstract ideation. I maintain...
Perspectives in computational design: A brief assessment of today's socio-technical context, promises, and challenges
June 2024
Overwhelming factual evidence proves that digital technologies are much better suited to fixing at least some of today's socio-technical problems than the obsolete mechanical technologies we inherited...
From archive to canon: Qi Biaojia’s Yu Garden as a place of emotional attachment in the construction of individual and national memory
March 2025
This study draws on texts and images of Yu Garden to demonstrate how the textualization of Chinese gardens conveys the continuity of cultural memory. Built by Qi Biaojia during the late period of the...
Doors of modernity
March 2025
At the turn of the 20th century, a range of new objects, appliances, machines, and infrastructures began to be incorporated into buildings: ticket offices, elevators, heating systems, and revolving...
From sign to inscription
June 2024
This paper extends the author's work on inscriptions as a new theory of contemporary architecture. Using the concept of unary trait from Lacanian theory, the paper analyses two works of architecture....
Roaming archives: The recontextualization of architecture and other myths
March 2026
In 1984, the nascent International Confederation of Architecture Museums (ICAM) gathered in Amsterdam for its third international conference. While ICAM 3 was originally intended to discuss best practices...
