Transcalarities, Niebla the cat, and other forms of Material Dissidence

Unlikely actors — such as the giant Victoria Amazonica lilies, tagged-as-Brazilian sex workers Raphael and Bamban, Silvio Berlusconi, the 432 Park Avenue condos, ultra-clear glass, grindr, fracking; Kim Kardashian’s shirtless Lanvin tuxedo, NO2, Niebla the cat, Mies’ basement, and Mike Bloomberg’s Clean Heat Project—are summoned to reconstruct the recent history of Architecture.

Andrés Jaque — architect, writer, curator and Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation — is one of the initiators of interscalar and transmedial approaches to urban and territorial studies. His work explores architecture as the entanglement of life, bodies, technologies and environments. He founded the Office for Political Innovation.

Photography: Renato Cruz Santos