Writing (Architecture) — Susana Ventura

Architecture, Art & Philosophy

“Dwelling in the Post-Metropolitan Space: A Study of The Broken House ” was initially published in the catalogue of the exhibition The Cut , by Rui Neto and Sérgio Silva (nps arquitectos). The exhibition took place at the University of Siegen in

Dwelling in the Post-Metropolitan Space: A study of The Broken House

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The Space of Contemplation: On Glenstone’s Pavilions

I wrote “Dear John” as a narrated text for Nuno Cera’s video titled “ Symphony of the Unknown II .” Cera invited me to write about Peter Eisenman’s City of Culture in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and, instead, or in-between, I decided to pay homag

Dear John

“Has Deleuze left the Theory of Architecture? Ignasi de Solà-Morales, the influence of Gilles Deleuze in the Theory of Architecture and its contemporary inscription” is an article published on Viceversa: Theorem: Discourse(s) , edited by Giacomo Pa

Has Deleuze left the Theory of Architecture?

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Paradise Redux

The Assembly of the Republic as a possible testing ground of the relations between space and power

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Welcome to Paradise

Invited by André Tavares to write an Opuscule, I decided to write an architectural short story under the title “The egg and the chicken” after two short stories by Clarice Lispector, whom I deeply admire. This story tries to defy some architectural

The egg and the chicken

After watching Koolhaas Houselife première at the Storefront in New York, back in 2008, I was impelled to write an architectural fiction about the film. The story was published in Log , being one of the first essays about the film and the work of L

Being Stuck: Between Reality and Fiction