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
  • People, Place, Purpose

People Place Purpose: The World According to Mecanoo describes and presents the specific approach to architecture that the Delft-based practice explores: seeking identity in a globalised world. From the texture of a local stone to colours of a fruit tree or rituals of inhabitants, Mecanoo is driven to design buildings with strength to earth.

Fig 1. People Place Purpose: The World According to Mecanoo (2015). Courtesy of Mecanoo.
Fig 2. Introduced by critic and writer Herbert Wright. Courtesy of Mecanoo.
Fig 3. The Bruce C. Bolling Center, Boston (MA). Courtesy of Mecanoo.
Publisher Artifice Authors Francine Houben, Herbert Wright Editors James Taylor-Foster, Hanneke Hollander Image Editors Machteld Schoep, Eliano Dias Felicio, Robbert Guis Graphic Design Jelle Post Lithography Sebastiaan Hanekroot

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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
Publications
  • People, Place, Purpose 2015
  • for Mecanoo architecten with Francine Houben
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People Place Purpose: The World According to Mecanoo describes and presents the specific approach to architecture that the Delft-based practice explores: seeking identity in a globalised world. From the texture of a local stone to colours of a fruit tree or rituals of inhabitants, Mecanoo is driven to design buildings with strength to earth.

Fig 1. People Place Purpose: The World According to Mecanoo (2015). Courtesy of Mecanoo.
Fig 2. Introduced by critic and writer Herbert Wright. Courtesy of Mecanoo.
Fig 3. The Bruce C. Bolling Center, Boston (MA). Courtesy of Mecanoo.
Publisher Artifice Authors Francine Houben, Herbert Wright Editors James Taylor-Foster, Hanneke Hollander Image Editors Machteld Schoep, Eliano Dias Felicio, Robbert Guis Graphic Design Jelle Post Lithography Sebastiaan Hanekroot
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