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 "content_md": "# Reading group\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Andrew-Metcalf_013.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-506\" title=\"Andrew Metcalf_013\" src=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/assets/Andrew-Metcalf_013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"213\" /></a>I'm starting teaching my first studio this semester, so this is probably a really bad time to admit that I don't really know much about architecture. It was something that some of my tutors at uni were quite happy to admit and they weren't at all hampered by it, so it never really worried me. That said, I'm lucky enough to work with <a title=\"This is andrew's new blog\" href=\"http://formandwords.com/\">Andrew Metcalf</a> (who is BVN's _critic-in-residence_) who is about to start running a reading group. This is going to be a small seminar group for 6 people; each week a person presents their text to the others.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harries, Karsten:  “**Is Stone Today ‘More Stone Than it Used to Be’?**”<br />\nFrom Tuukkanen, Pirkko (ed) Matter and Mind in Architecture (The Alvar Aalto Foundation, 2000)</li>\n<li>Atlee, James: “**Towards Anarchitecture: Gordon Matta-Clark And Le Corbusier**”<br />\nFrom Tate’s Online Research Journal, Spring 2007 (The Tate Gallery, 2007)</li>\n<li> Negri, Antonio: “**Metamorphosis**”<br />\nFrom Radical Philosophy ( Issue 149, May-June 2008)  &lt;--this is my text</li>\n<li>Wu, Tim: “**The Master Switch**” (introduction)<br />\nFrom Wu, Tim The Master Switch:The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010)</li>\n<li> Paktau, John: “**Material Differences**”<br />\nFrom Tuukkanen, Pirkko (ed) Matter and Mind in Architecture (The Alvar Aalto Foundation, 2000)</li>\n<li>Assefa,EM and Seamon, D: “**Karsten Harries’ Natural Symbols as a Means for Interpreting Architecture: Inside and Outside in Frank Lloyd Wright’s \t\t\tFallingwater and Alvar Aalto’s Villa Mairea**”<br />\nFrom Heaven and Earth-Festschrift to Honor Karsten Harries (Cloud Cuckoo Land V.12-1, Aug 08)</li>\n</ul>\n<p>For all my usual sceptisism, I'm actually very excited to learn a bit about architectural theory. My understanding of the field that I work in has grown pretty haphazardly so it'll be interesting to see how it fits in with everyone else's.</p>\n",
 "content_html": "<h1>Reading group</h1>\n<p><a href=\"http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Andrew-Metcalf_013.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-506\" title=\"Andrew Metcalf_013\" src=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/assets/Andrew-Metcalf_013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"213\" /></a>I’m starting teaching my first studio this semester, so this is probably a really bad time to admit that I don’t really know much about architecture. It was something that some of my tutors at uni were quite happy to admit and they weren’t at all hampered by it, so it never really worried me. That said, I’m lucky enough to work with <a title=\"This is andrew's new blog\" href=\"http://formandwords.com/\">Andrew Metcalf</a> (who is BVN’s <em>critic-in-residence</em>) who is about to start running a reading group. This is going to be a small seminar group for 6 people; each week a person presents their text to the others.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Harries, Karsten:  “**Is Stone Today ‘More Stone Than it Used to Be’?**”<br />\nFrom Tuukkanen, Pirkko (ed) Matter and Mind in Architecture (The Alvar Aalto Foundation, 2000)</li>\n<li>Atlee, James: “**Towards Anarchitecture: Gordon Matta-Clark And Le Corbusier**”<br />\nFrom Tate’s Online Research Journal, Spring 2007 (The Tate Gallery, 2007)</li>\n<li> Negri, Antonio: “**Metamorphosis**”<br />\nFrom Radical Philosophy ( Issue 149, May-June 2008)  &lt;--this is my text</li>\n<li>Wu, Tim: “**The Master Switch**” (introduction)<br />\nFrom Wu, Tim The Master Switch:The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010)</li>\n<li> Paktau, John: “**Material Differences**”<br />\nFrom Tuukkanen, Pirkko (ed) Matter and Mind in Architecture (The Alvar Aalto Foundation, 2000)</li>\n<li>Assefa,EM and Seamon, D: “**Karsten Harries’ Natural Symbols as a Means for Interpreting Architecture: Inside and Outside in Frank Lloyd Wright’s \t\t\tFallingwater and Alvar Aalto’s Villa Mairea**”<br />\nFrom Heaven and Earth-Festschrift to Honor Karsten Harries (Cloud Cuckoo Land V.12-1, Aug 08)</li>\n</ul>\n<p>For all my usual sceptisism, I’m actually very excited to learn a bit about architectural theory. My understanding of the field that I work in has grown pretty haphazardly so it’ll be interesting to see how it fits in with everyone else’s.</p>\n",
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