Matthew Allen
teaches history and theory at Washington University in St. Louis, and his first book, Flowcharting, is due out in May. He would like to thank Samuel Medina for his incisive comments on previous drafts.
Articles
Where ideas hit money and materials and space itself.
What happened to architectural deconstruction and the radical world it promised?
Peter Eisenman memorably tussled with the late Christopher Alexander on a Harvard debate stage. He talks to NYRA about that match-up and his aversion to Alexander’s ideas about “comfort” and “harmony.”
A new volume claims to present a representative slice of contemporary “progressive” architecture. But why this architecture now?
Dispatches
Take It Easy?
Mentions
What is at stake in Flowcharting is the role that computation might play in a project for a “progressive” architecture.
