Literature
Some Short Stories From The New Yorker
Literature, Rationality and Rational Choice Theory
Roberto Bolano: The Savage Detectives
A Portrait of David Foster Wallace
Borges and Perec on Classifying Animals
Richard Flanagan: The Unknown Terrorist
Olivier Rolin: Invention du Monde
J.M. Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello
Roberto Calasso: The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
Art
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
David Hockney and his iPhone Paintings
The Impossible Dazzlingly Achieved
Gerhard Richter, Damien Hirst and Me
Anri Sala. Artist in Focus IFFR
Willem de Kooning Retrospective
Gilbert and George Retrospective
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris by Night
Self-Portrait of the Museum Visitor as Tourist
Self Portrait. Renaissance to Contemporary
La Belgique Visionnaire/Visionary Belgium
Gegenwelten at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
Berlinde de Bruyckere Retrospective
De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art
Faces in the Crowd At The Whitechapel Art Gallery
Luc Tuymans Retrospective: Kunstsammlung Nordrheinwestfalen
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection
Theatre
Guy Cassiers: Onder de Vulkaan
Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes: De Monstruos y Prodigios
Rene Pollesch: L'Affaire Martin! Etc.
Johan Simons: Elementarteilchen
Guy Cassiers: Proust 4. Marcel's Way
Frank Castorf: Der Meister und Margarita
Frank Castorf: Endstation Amerika
Forced Entertainment: Bloody Mess
Rene Pollesch: Pablo in der Plusfiliale
Design
Emigre No 70: The Look Back Issue
Vintage Car Ads and Pizzas In A Cone
Sleeveface, Song Charts and Distributed Creativity
Numbered Boxes and Printed Chairs
Arabesque Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia
New Visual Culture of Modern Iran
Business Card Design: A Conceptual Approach
Conceptual Strands in Site Design
Architecture & Urbanism
An Institutional Shortcoming of the US Housing Market
Urban Street Vending and the Law
Of Skyscrapers as Early Indicators of Economic Downturn
Recommended Books and Documentaries
Science Special Issue On Cities
Hybridization: The Informal City (2)
Street Vendors: The Informal City (1)
The Correlation Between Finance and Architecture
Zaha Hadid. Architecture and Design
Le Corbusier. The Art of Architecture
Architecture and Urban Planning in China
Architecture of the Night/Luminous Buildings
Spectacular City. Photographing the Future
Beauty and Waste in the Architecture of Herzog and De Meuron
Finance & Economics
Financial Markets, Networks and Complexity
Tall People Live Better Lives On Average
Kahneman and Renshon on Why Hawks Win
A Short Note on Economic Stimulus Programs
Daron Acemoglu: Introduction to Modern Economic Growth
Don't Rescue the Bad Banks, Create New Banks
Globalization: Recommended Books
Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational
US Global Trends 2025 Report: A Comment
This Is Called Volatility Clustering
The Credit Crisis: Some Preliminary Analyses
Blogging the Credit Crisis, Again
The 2008 Lindau Meeting in Economics
Actor Network Theory and the Libor Puzzle
Beating the Market with Mathematics
The Economics of Dowry and Brideprice
A Shift In Behaviour of American Households
When To Buy a New Digital Camera?
Imperfect Knowledge Economics. Stock Markets and the Fed
Risk Management Does Not Eliminate Risk
Contagion in Financial Markets
Is China's Double Digit Growth a Miracle?
A Short Note about Wal-Mart's Entry into India
The Perverse Logic of Capitalism
Local Differences Global Impact
Edward Luce: In Spite of the Gods. The Strange Rise of Modern India
Digressions
A Year In Which My World Continued Expanding
The iPad: A Revolution in Education and Textbooks?
No Matter. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better
If On a Summer’s Night a Blogger
The Los Angeles Times Homicide Report
Of Cassette Tapes and Compact Flash Cards
What Analytical Philosophy Today Is About
Urban
Europe
Barcelona
Basel
Berlin
Bologna
Bologna: Cimitero della Certosa
Florence
Istanbul
Istanbul: Satellite Dishes
Istanbul: Topkapi Palace
Lisbon
London
Paris
Paris Catacombs
Paris: Basilique de Saint-Denis
Paris: Chateau de Versailles
Paris: Père Lachaise
Porto
The Hague
Valencia
Venice
Venice: Walls
Photos | Still Life
Photos | Architecture
Los Angeles
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry
Lisbon
Oriente Station, Santiago Calatrava
Mosteiro dos Jeronimos
Porto
Casa da Musica, OMA/Rem Koolhaas
Serralves Museum, Alvaro Siza
Cinema House, Eduardo Souto de Moura
Barcelona
German Pavilion, Mies van der Rohe
Forum 2004, Herzog & de Meuron
La Pedrera , Antonio Gaudí
Casa Batlló, Antonio Gaudí
La Sagrada Familia, Antonio Gaudí
Torre Agbar, Jean Nouvel
Valencia
City of Arts and Sciences, Santiago Calatrava
Architecture
Tokyo
Prada Epicenter, Herzog & de Meuron
Small House, Kazuyo Sejima
Shallow House, Atelier Bow Wow
Tod's Omotesando, Toyo Ito
Mikimoto Ginza, Toyo Ito
Pet Architecture
London
Laban Centre, Herzog & De Meuron
Lloyds Building, Richard Rogers Partnership
Paris
Palais de Tokyo, Lacaton & Vasalle
French Communist Party HQ, Oscar Niemeyer
Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier
Villa La Roche, Le Corbusier
Architecture
Germany
Vitra Design Museum, Frank Gehry
Vitra Fire Station, Zaha Hadid
Vitra Conference Centre, Tadao Ando
Vitra Factory, Frank Gehry
Landscape Formation One, Zaha Hadid
Dutch Pavilion Expo 2000, MVRDV
Berlin
Dutch Embassy, OMA/Rem Koolhaas
Basel
Schaulager, Herzog & de Meuron
Jinhua Structure, Herzog & de Meuron
Vitra Design Centre, Frank Gehry
Fondation Beyeler, Renzo Piano
Architecture
The Netherlands
Educatorium, OMA/Rem Koolhaas
Wozoco, MVRDV
Borneo Sporenburg, Amsterdam
Borneo Sporenburg Bridges, West8
Haarlemmermeer Bridges, Santiago Calatrava
Hoofddorp Bus station, Nio Architecten
Video Pavilion, Bernard Tschumi
Video Bus Stop, OMA/Rem Koolhaas
Public Lavatory, OMA/Rem Koolhaas
Wall House, John Hejduk
Souterrain, OMA/Rem Koolhaas