essay: Desire Machine: The unconscious does not speak, it engineers. It is not expressive or representative, but productive.... Rather than linking dependent parts into a functioning whole, desiring machines involve heterogeneous "parts" in a connective synthesis. The unconscious is a factory rather than a theater. The unconscious constructs machines, which are machines of desire, whose use and functioning schizoanalysis discovers in their immanent relationship with social machines.

essay: Dennis Kaspori: A Communism of ideas: Towards an open-source architectural practice Open source would seem to be an attractive model for an architectural practice wishing to revive its pro-active role in spatial issues. Cooperation and the exchange of ideas give rise to a learning organization that is able to evolve by reacting alertly to change. This sounds easier than it is... from Suit 75, Maze and Archis #3 2003

essay: Granz & Teixeira: Topographical Amnesias The landscape of big cities is composed of many residual elements. Vacant regions, under-utilized voids and terrains vagues compose areas exposed to economic and social pressures. Neighboring areas to railways, de-industrialized regions, declining urban centers, de-activated ports: all of these have been transformed into an immense source appropriate for mega-interventions, a worldwide trend... from Vazio/Kyoto click < here > for an illustrated version (pdf, 5.7 mb)

essay: Carlos M Teixeira: Jari II Project (After Archigram) This is the story of the Kyoto Protocol Landscape. It is divided in two phases. Part I (history) relates to the Jari Project, a mega exploitation of the Amazon forest that began in 1968. Part II (fiction) tells an imaginary unfolding of the Jari Project that starts on 15 sep 2001 and terminates in 2008, at the eve of the Kyoto Protocol's official beginning. The focus of the story is a floating wood-burning plant, which instable landscape changes according to the evolution of the facts. from Vazio/Kyoto [requires Shockwave 3D plugin]

essay: Wade Tillett: Fulfilling the Program The waitress must have asked me at least ten times. I don't know, I couldn't eat, there was just something irksome about people in suits eating free hors d'oeuvres and drinking donated wine all in the name of public housing. I couldn't help but think that at the same time the developers, officials, architects and media are eating smoked salmon at the awards ceremony for a competition to 'reinvent' public housing, there are children mere blocks away, within public housing, going hungry. from the Friction Institute

essays: "ASCII Architecture" - texts from www.electronetwork.org these diagrams are not proposing to be "the whole story" or even accurate, but with the assumption of words above, to relate to the present condition of public and private...