James Taylor-Foster
Selected writing 2012 – 2020
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  • Clairvoyance
  • 2015
James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
Selected writing 2012 – 2020
  • Clairvoyance

By the powers that be, architects have been anointed with the gift of clairvoyance. Or so we think. LOBBY No. 2 opens up a forum for discussing the role of the architect as a clairvoyant idealist or a historical realist. ‘Clairvoyance’ is a platform to analyse the design process, experiment with alternatives, and engage in self-critique to create an ‘archive of predictions’ for the future of architecture.

Fig 1. Cover

“The Seminar Room translates the idea of the typical academic architectural discourse and re-presents it in print. It introduces excerpts from Elias Canetti’s Masse und Macht (Crowds and Power), and Peter Carl’s Civic Depth. Following these readings are a series of short essays on the subject of urbanism and crowds. For me, the most compelling content of the section can be found in a printed discussion between Patrick Lynch, Giovanni Bellotti, Shumi Bose, and Taylor-Foster which was held at the Bartlett in January of this year. Verbal conversations tend to distill complex ideas to their most comprehensible elements, while simultaneously bringing out related themes and observations. Their discussion encompasses a staggering range of historical references, forcing the reader to critically compare the spatial ideas behind sites as old as Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, to contemporary works such as Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.”

Evan Rawn, Projecting Forward, Looking Back
Fig 2. Conversational Skeleton, Giovanni Bellotti and James Taylor-Foster
Editors Regner Ramos, Mrinal S. Rammohan, James Taylor-Foster, Stylianos Giamarelos, Laura Narvaez, Nahed Jawad Art Direction Laura Silke & Moa Pårup

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James Taylor-Foster
editor & writer of essays & reviews,
architectural designer,
maker of exhibitions
  • CuratorialI.
  • ProjectsII.
  • PublicationsIII.
  • SpeakingIV.
  • WritingV.
I.Curatorial
  • WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD2020
  • Architecture Projects: Skeppsbron2019
  • Cruising Pavilion: Architecture, Gay Sex and Cruising Culture2019
  • Yarny, Medusa och en elefant: The Craft of Swedish Game Design2019
  • Sigurd Lewerentz: Freestanding2018
  • Space Popular: Value in the Virtual2018
  • Boxen at ArkDes2018
  • You Are Not Alone2017
  • In Therapy2016
  • Keeping Up Appearances2015
II.Projects
  • Körper2019
  • Architecture on Display2018
  • Planetary Protocols2018
  • The Stones of Venice: A Kimono2017
  • Misunderstandings (A Reliquary)2016
III.Publications
  • Living on Water2017
  • Faith2016
  • Elemental Living2016
  • Abundance2016
  • Clairvoyance2015
  • People, Place, Purpose2015
  • Defiance2015
  • Monet: Colour in Impressionism2012
IV.Speaking
  • Modevisningar är den flyktigaste formen av arkitektur2018
  • Attention, Accelerated2017
  • Exhibition Models2017
  • Conversation with Kenneth Frampton2017
  • Interview: “Profil” (RTV4 Slovenia)2017
V.Writing
  • Making Believe with Designers Charlap Hyman & Herrero2019
  • Foreword: On the Manifesto2019
  • On Practical Futurology2019
  • 〰️ To Speak As If In Capital Letters2019
  • Baltoscandia: A Complex Utopia2018
  • 〰️ The Cruising Pavilion: Gay Sex, Architecture and Cruising Cultures2018
  • 〰️ A Weak Monument2018
  • An Architect’s Diary of Virgil Abloh’s First Louis Vuitton Show2018
  • 〰️ The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied. — A Rearview Review2018
  • 〰️ Virgil Abloh, Editor in Brief2018
  • Sigurd Lewerentz: Villa Edstrand2018
  • 〰️ 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
  • Concrete Mountain2017
  • 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 2012 – 2020
Publications
  • Clairvoyance 2015
  • for the Seminar Room in LOBBY #2, "Clairvoyance"
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By the powers that be, architects have been anointed with the gift of clairvoyance. Or so we think. LOBBY No. 2 opens up a forum for discussing the role of the architect as a clairvoyant idealist or a historical realist. ‘Clairvoyance’ is a platform to analyse the design process, experiment with alternatives, and engage in self-critique to create an ‘archive of predictions’ for the future of architecture.

Fig 1. Cover

“The Seminar Room translates the idea of the typical academic architectural discourse and re-presents it in print. It introduces excerpts from Elias Canetti’s Masse und Macht (Crowds and Power), and Peter Carl’s Civic Depth. Following these readings are a series of short essays on the subject of urbanism and crowds. For me, the most compelling content of the section can be found in a printed discussion between Patrick Lynch, Giovanni Bellotti, Shumi Bose, and Taylor-Foster which was held at the Bartlett in January of this year. Verbal conversations tend to distill complex ideas to their most comprehensible elements, while simultaneously bringing out related themes and observations. Their discussion encompasses a staggering range of historical references, forcing the reader to critically compare the spatial ideas behind sites as old as Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, to contemporary works such as Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.”

Evan Rawn, Projecting Forward, Looking Back
Fig 2. Conversational Skeleton, Giovanni Bellotti and James Taylor-Foster
Editors Regner Ramos, Mrinal S. Rammohan, James Taylor-Foster, Stylianos Giamarelos, Laura Narvaez, Nahed Jawad Art Direction Laura Silke & Moa Pårup
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