We are opening „Ecologies of the Machine. Landscapes of Cement and Power“ tonight, this time as a pop-up installation at TU Munich‘s Pavillon 333, in collaboration with Anne Rademacher of the Public Science Lab: publicsciencelab.org/2025/10/10/e...

What if cement - the literal foundation of modern life - has been quietly shaping our climate crisis and social values for over a century? @kimfoerster.bsky.social , @manchester.ac.uk , Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) , discusses: faculti.net/lets-talk-ab... #architecture

What if cement - the literal foundation of modern life - has been quietly shaping our climate crisis and social values for over a century? @kimfoerster.bsky.social , @manchester.ac.uk , Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) , discusses: faculti.net/lets-talk-ab... #architecture

Our exhibition "Ecologies of the Machine," curated by Tania Tovar of Proyector architecture space and with landscape photography by Erika Loana of Atlas Materia Prima, is still on view at Vi Per Gallery in Prague until 12 July, with public events planned on 3 & 4 July: www.e-flux.com/announcement...

CfP: Together with Adam Przywara, for the 2026 EAHN conference in Aarhus, we formulated a call for papers for a panel on "Excavating the Landfill: Towards an Environmental History of Architecture’s Waste" which can be found here konferencer.au.dk/eahn26/call-...

Very much looking forward to opening the exhibition Ecologies of the Machine, which delves into the ecologies, systems, and landscape transformations derived from the economic and technological machine that is the cement industry in Mexico. www.vipergallery.org/vystava/ecol...

CFP for our panel on future impacts of extraction in the context of this year‘s AHRA conference now online: www.virtual-lsa.uk/ahra2025/?fb...

Grateful to have contributed an essay on „The Palimpsest of Swiss Energy Landscapes“ to the inaugural issue of ISUP Journal! www.isuppapers.ch/articles/fro...

💨Die Kritik am Emissionshandelssystem ist in Bundesbern angekommen – und das gleich doppelt! (1/8) @magazindaslamm.bsky.social

Looking forward to co-hosting soon the MARG symposium ‘Transitioning Architecture – Pedagogy, Research and Collaboration’ at Manchester with many great guests!

The reviews of "Building Institution" get longer and longer... Thanks André Patrão for such kind and generous words! khorein.ifdt.bg.ac.rs/index.php/ch... @marg-manchester.bsky.social

A few pics from inside this highly recommended book archidose.substack.com/p/architectu...

"Building Institution" is this week's architecture book of the week! Read here John Hill's favorable review on "A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books" @marg-manchester.bsky.social @archidose.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/archidos...

What a rare review of Environmental Histories of Architecture in JSAH by Catherine Seavitt Nordenson! online.ucpress.edu/jsah/article...

Fantastic research presented at the gta Doctoral Review at ETH Zurich today!

Happening today in Sheffield!

Wonderful review in JSAH by Marcelo López-Dinardi of our exhibition „Ecologies of the Machine. Landscapes of Cement and Power“, shown at Proyector in México in 2023-24, directed by Tania Tovar Torres with further contribution by Erika Loana of Atlas Materia Prima, online.ucpress.edu/jsah/issue/8...

For attentive readers… www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/171...

Tomorrow, I’ll be joining the „Agentive Matter(s)“ symposium organized by Nathalie Bredella at the Institute for Advanced Study at TU Munich, speaking about the ecologies and economies of „Digital Concrete“!

MARG lecture next week! Stay tuned for link to follow the lecture online ✨

Don’t miss our lecture fall 2024 series also online

Happening tonight in Manchester!

Next Tuesday I‘ll be discussing „Building Institution“ with Thomas de Monchaux, organized by the New York Review of Architecture and hosted by Head Hi bookstore in Brooklyn: www.instagram.com/p/DAUJHZAOa_...

Excited and honored to provide the keynote to next week’s conference at Princeton on the occasion of the North American distribution of my book „Building Institution“ through Columbia University Press: www.instagram.com/reel/DATv9Yy...

For all those working on institutional history of architecture, please consider applying to this panel of next year's AHA, which I co-organize with Joshua Mardell and Yanqi Huang: ahra-architecture.org/events/archi...

Recently I returned to NEST in Zurich and spoke with Peter Richner of Swiss Federal Institute for Material Science and Technology Empa about why and how our past and present cement regime based on a fossil industry complicates any future of building: open.spotify.com/episode/0Ikw...

Our roundtable on #envhum is blowing up! Registrations from across the 🌏 What are questions/topics you'd like to hear discussed W/ these experienced editors in #envhum? Also would you listen to a recording of the conversations? I do have a nice Yeti microphone so tempted to give it a go...

Out now, „Building Institution“! (At least as EB, print to follow.) Thanks to the fantastic Till Sperrle, Nicola Heine, Jan Gerbach, Achim Hatzius, Bri Ostermann, as well as Gero Wierichs and Johanna Tönsing at transcript: www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/c6...

Huge thanks for featuring my cement research and teaching on Baunetz Campus: www.baunetz-campus.de/focus/vorbei...

Open PHD position in history and theory of architecture at USI Mendrisio: www.instagram.com/p/C1WVBWlMRj...

There is a 4 year funded doctoral position at USI Mendrisio opening up: content.usi.ch/sites/defaul...

Coming soon! My long overdue monograph on the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies is announced as of today (still a dummy cover though): www.transcript-verlag.de/detail/index...

Happy to have my architectural critique of the NEST out with e-flux Architecture‘s Accumulations-series today, finally: www.e-flux.com/architecture...

What an honor! The Environmental Histories-series got reviewed already some time ago: arkitektur.se/recension/sv...

Thrilled to have been contributed my kiln research to this fantastic collection: punctumbooks.com/titles/solar...

With the publication of my survey and position paper „Undisciplined Knowing“ the open access series „Environmental Histories of Architecture“ eventually comes to an end! Thanks to everyone who collaborated on this multi-year project! www.librarystack.org/environmenta...

The anthology on Histories of Architecture Education in the United States is finally out! I’m happy to have contributed an essay on the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies as a postmodern school of architecture: www.routledge.com/Histories-of...

Excited to take part in the Encounters panel of the Repositioning Urban Design symposium at TU Delft tomorrow, together with Pelin Tan and Salomon Frausto! urbandesigntudelft.nl/news/symposi...

There are three funded PhD positions for artistic research on climate rights with my friend Nabil Ahmed at Trondheim University! jobbnorge.no//en/availabl...