A Year in Reading: Francesco Pacifico
I’m happy to have found the following books this year, it’s been a wonderful year for visions and dreams—while most requirements from society faded in the background, it became easier for me to decipher the subtler voices.
Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture by Lisa Robertson
Maybe the best thing I’ve read this year. Compelling prose on a bunch of places but specific and abstract. Suburbia. Scaffoldings. Imagine the trippiest parts of a DeLillo novel, without the novel. Robertson’s gossamer writing is a convincing argument as to why architecture needs words. But the words should not explain, only build, only connect.
Superstudio’s Opere 1966-1978
The radical architects at Superstudio were great at creating manifestos using collage and language. In
