Pre-Architectures [en] Revolte ‘Photographers at the Ovular’ (1980)

‘Photographers at the Ovular’ (1980) by Joan E

In an interview with Indian activist ALOK HISARWALA GUPTA

The presentations are reproduced along with the ensuing conversations with Miessen and the audience members

she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy

From feasting on ideas to hosting dissident knowledges

Pre-Architectures [en] Revolte ‘Photographers at the Ovular’ (1980)Envision a world without architecture, a world tecture without arche, the latter meaning not only beginning or origin but also the authority to arrange and subordinate persons, objects, and processes into an identifiable power structure. Pre architecture is not simply not architectureit is what architecture could have become but ultimately disavowed. The same unfulfilled potentialities haunt not only the distant past but also architectures anxious