James Taylor-Foster
Selected writing 2015 – 2023
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James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
Selected writing 2015 – 2023
  • Interdependence: Stockholm and pandemia

A portrait of Stockholm during the first months (wave one) of the COVID-19 spread in Sweden. Filmed and scored between April and May 2020, the film was created in collaboration with Studio Reko. Learn more about the project on PIN-UP.

Fig 1. Interdependence (2020) – a portrait of Stockholm during COVID-19 created by James Taylor-Foster, Frans Wiklund, and Ludwig Mattsson. A film by Studio Reko.

Fig 2. “Sweden is a society of individuals.” (Studio Reko × James Taylor-Foster, 2020)

Fig 3. “When a social system seems to work so efficiently…” (Studio Reko × James Taylor-Foster, 2020)

Fig 4. “There is a mutual trust between one another.” (Studio Reko × James Taylor-Foster, 2020)

Fig 5. Mariatorget, Stockholm (Studio Reko × James Taylor-Foster, 2020)

Fig 6. “It’s like loving someone in the dark who never arrives…” (Studio Reko × James Taylor-Foster, 2020)

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James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
  • CuratorialI.
  • ProjectsII.
  • PublicationsIII.
  • SpeakingIV.
  • WritingV.
I.Curatorial
  • ✶ Joar Nango: Girjegumpi, Venice2023
  • ✶ WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD, London2022
  • ✶ Mira Bergh × Josefin Zachrisson: Utomhusverket2022
  • ✶ The Limits of Our World: LARP and Design2022
  • Solicited: Proposals2021
  • Studio Ossidiana: Utomhusverket2021
  • WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD, Stockholm2020
  • Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron + Brunnsparken2019
  • Cruising Pavilion: Architecture, Gay Sex, Cruising Culture2019
  • The Craft of Swedish Videogame Design2019
  • Petra Gipp and Mikael Olsson; Sigurd Lewerentz – Freestanding2018
  • Space Popular: Value in the Virtual2018
  • You Are Not Alone2017
  • In Therapy2016
  • Keeping Up Appearances2015
II.Projects
  • ASMR, An Exhibition Trailer2022
  • Watch & Chill 2.0: Streaming Senses2022
  • ASMRology2021
  • Plug-in Poesi2020
  • Interdependence: Stockholm and pandemia2020
  • Future Architecture Rooms2020
  • SOFT GOSSIP2020
  • Mukbang Veneziano2020
  • Körper2019
  • Architecture on Display2018
  • Boxen at ArkDes2018
  • The Stones of Venice: A Kimono2017
  • Misunderstandings (A Reliquary)2016
III.Publications
  • ✶ softspot2021
  • Living on Water2017
  • Elemental Living2016
  • People, Place, Purpose2015
IV.Speaking
  • ✶ Scaffold #612022
  • Salons, The New Architecture School2022
  • Protagonist of the Erotic: A Bed2022
  • OAT Academy, Curating Architecture2022
  • ✶ Protagonist of the Erotic: An Island2021
  • A Future for Exhibitions2021
  • Future Architecture CEx2020 Focus Talks2020
  • Modevisningar är den flyktigaste formen av arkitektur2018
  • Exhibition Models2017
V.Writing
  • Wang & Söderström: Royal Chambers2023
  • Lisa Tan: Dodge and/or Burn2023
  • Luki Essender: Of Yous2023
  • Studio Ossidiana on the Sentimental Scale of the City2022
  • A Strange Sort of Weight2021
  • What’s Mine Is Theirs: an interview with Max Lamb2020
  • ✶ Screen Glow Sedation2020
  • No Time to Stand and Stare2020
  • On Norra Tornen2020
  • ✶ Don’t Fear a Snowflake2020
  • In Riga, A Conference On Architecture and Migration2019
  • On Practical Futurology2019
  • Foreword: On the Manifesto2019
  • Making Believe with Charlap Hyman & Herrero2019
  • ✶ To Speak As If In Capital Letters2019
  • Baltoscandia: A Complex Utopia2018
  • ✶ Virgil Abloh, Editor in Brief2018
  • A Weak Monument2018
  • Sigurd Lewerentz: Villa Edstrand2018
  • On the Cruising Pavilion2018
  • A Diary of Virgil Abloh’s First Louis Vuitton Show2018
  • ✶ The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied.2018
  • Concrete Mountain2017
  • ✶ On Liquid Modernity2017
  • ✶ #003399, #FFCC00; The Meaning of a Flag2017
  • Pillars of Society: “Jantelagen”2017
  • Exhibiting the Postmodern2017
  • Future Architecture and the Idea of Europe2017
  • Domains of Influence2017
  • Ingress: Black Rock City2017
  • In Dialogue With Gravity2017
  • Rem, Redacted2016
  • Media States, Or The State of Media2016
  • A Piece of England to Call One’s Own2016
  • Upon This Rock (I Will Build My Church)2016
  • The Design of the Species2016
  • Venice Isn’t Sinking, It’s Flooding2016
James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
Selected writing 2015 – 2023
Projects
  • Interdependence: Stockholm and pandemia 2020
  • with Frans Wiklund, Ludwig Mattsson (Studio Reko)
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A portrait of Stockholm during the first months (wave one) of the COVID-19 spread in Sweden. Filmed and scored between April and May 2020, the film was created in collaboration with Studio Reko. Learn more about the project on PIN-UP.

Fig 1. Interdependence (2020) – a portrait of Stockholm during COVID-19 created by James Taylor-Foster, Frans Wiklund, and Ludwig Mattsson. A film by Studio Reko.

Fig 2. “Sweden is a society of individuals.” (Studio Reko × James Taylor-Foster, 2020)

Fig 3. “When a social system seems to work so efficiently…” (Studio Reko × James Taylor-Foster, 2020)

Fig 4. “There is a mutual trust between one another.” (Studio Reko × James Taylor-Foster, 2020)

Fig 5. Mariatorget, Stockholm (Studio Reko × James Taylor-Foster, 2020)

Fig 6. “It’s like loving someone in the dark who never arrives…” (Studio Reko × James Taylor-Foster, 2020)
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