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Eikonographia: A New Architecture Criticism, by Michiel van Raaij

by Tommy Manuel

This is a very inter­est­ing and rel­e­vant piece. You can read the arti­cle here. I can say from my own recent archi­tec­tural edu­ca­tion that much of the insti­tu­tion­al­ized archi­tec­tural the­ory and crit­i­cism is lost on stu­dents today, myself included.
This is not to say I or my class­mates didn’t find the­ory and crit­i­cism inter­est­ing, but rather […]

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Monograph Studio, Final Review, Spring 2009

by Tommy Manuel

 Cover image from my mono­graph, 2008.

Last Fri­day I had the priv­i­lege of sit­ting in as a critic for the stu­dio led by Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lig­nano with Thomas de Moncheaux at Columbia’s GSAPP. Hav­ing been on the other side of the table just a year ago, I had a lot of excite­ment about seeing […]

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