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CRA + SPEAP

By Adrian On March 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized
This website was hacked for the last 4 months, it took a long time to rectify because I was moving from Sydney to London to start at CRA. This is the new situation: some staff and students from Centre for Research Architecture and also from Latour’s Science Po Experimental Art and Politics program last Monday at Goldsmiths, University [...]
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BARTLETT LECTURE TONIGHT

By Adrian On October 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized
Sorry for late notice, but if you are in London, I will be speaking at the Bartlett School of Architecture tonight, kicking off their international lecture series.
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BEIRUT FILM FESTIVAL

By Adrian On October 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized
If you are in Beirut between the 5th and the 13th of October, don’t miss the Beirut Film Festival. This years selection features the brilliant Under the Bridge by Nora Niasari:
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THE POST TRAUMATIC ETHOS: TEN THESIS ON THE CITY

By Adrian On September 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized
PROTO/E/CO/LOGICS/Day02 – Adrian Lahoud: Post-traumatic Urbanism from MLAUS – Mediterranean Laboratory on Vimeo. A summary of this draft thesis on the city, what I have described as a post-traumatic ethos is presented below in point form. 1.Thesis on failure “We learn most about something at the point of its collapse” 2.Thesis on reality and endurance [...]
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PROTO/POSTSCRIPT

By Adrian On September 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized
Apologies for the slow pace of posting this year. A quick update of what has been happening in the last month by way of explanation: Some recent images from the proto/e/cologics conference in Croatia that I participated in from the review in Domus are below. I am working on a longer review at the moment, [...]
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AND NOW

By Adrian On August 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized
For defective consumers, those contemporary have-nots, non-shopping is the jarring and festering stigma of a life un-fulfilled – and of own nonentity and good-for-nothingness. Not just the absence of pleasure: absence of human dignity. Of life meaning. Ultimately, of humanity and any other ground for self-respect and respect of the others around. ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
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GEOPOLITICAL BORDERS

By Adrian On July 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized
Our entry for the recent Geopolitical Borders Competition judged by Teddy Cruz received an honourable mention. You can see the rest of the project here: www.adrianlahoud.com. Project credit: Adrian Lahoud and Samuel Szwarcbord
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‘UNDER THE BRIDGE’ Essay & Film

By Adrian On June 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized
    UTS Architecture graduate and documentary maker Nora Niasari has been featured in the latest issue of Chicago based architecture & design journal ‘MAS Context: Conflict.’  Her essay and film titled “Under the Bridge (Tah’t el Jesser)“ explores the consequences of the Lebanese Civil War on Beirut’s public transportation system. The journal also features contributors [...]
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LIBYA/LEBANON

By Adrian On May 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized
Meaning to post this a few weeks ago. It’s a strange story about how a project was picked up by Arch Daily (mislabeled) and went a little viral. It begins with this post here on ArchDaily who thought it interesting to post one of the projects from my project website. Unfortunately they wrote that the project [...]
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BEIRUT RIOT

By Adrian On April 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized
                          The image that most symbolises the year so far.. thanks to D.B, via the LA times. Read more about it here Al-Jazeera
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