Strelka Mag

29.05, Bookshelf

Excerpt: ‘Switzerland. Deep Urbanism for an Age of Disruption’ by Markus Schaefer

A model for a particular type of holistic urbanism.

27.11.2019, Bookshelf

Excerpt: ‘Introduction to Comparative Planetology’ by Lukáš Likavčan

An intertwined analysis of imaginations of the Earth and geopolitics of climate emergency.

28.10.2019, Bookshelf

The Socialist Spirit of Poland’s Post-War Church Boom

A new book cataloging the boom in church construction in the atheist People’s Republic of Poland reveals a singular and unique contribution to the architecture of the twentieth century.

01.10.2019, Bookshelf

Excerpt: ‘The Palace Complex’ by Michał Murawski

A story of obsession with Europe’s most enduring socialist building.

24.09.2019, Bookshelf

Towards a Viable Planetarity: The Terraforming Reading List

As Strelka Institute launches a new three-year research cycle, the team behind The Terraforming recommends a selection of literature which might help you to better understand the context of the program.

18.09.2019, Bookshelf

Excerpt: ‘The Terraforming’ by Benjamin H. Bratton

The latest book by design theorist and Strelka Program Director Benjamin Bratton outlines the argument behind The Terraforming, the new research project at Strelka Institute.

05.08.2019, Bookshelf

Six New Architecture Books for a Broken Planet

Architect and researcher Kate Popova offers her selection of six recently published books that question why architecture finds itself increasingly unable to find solutions to the problems it sets out to solve.

15.07.2019, Bookshelf

Judging ‘Architecture of the USSR’ by its covers: 13 remarkable designs from the Soviet magazine

A look at the сover designs of the main Soviet architecture magazine.

09.04.2019, Bookshelf

State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art

Strelka Mag recommends a recent book about the new relationships between states, citizens, and the stateless, all of which are made possible by emerging technologies.

22.03.2019, Bookshelf

The Re-enchantment of Humanism: An Interview with Sylvia Wynter

Strelka visiting lecturer Patricia Reed recommends this in-depth interview with Sylvia Wynter, one of the foremost Caribbean decolonial thinkers, as an introduction to Wynter’s multifaceted life and work.

09.03.2019, Bookshelf

The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation

The Strelka team recommends a manifesto for a new futuristic feminism by Laboria Cuboniks as an ultimate must-read on International Women’s Day.

25.02.2019, Bookshelf

Scientific Cosmology and International Orders

Writer and artist Patricia Reed recommends a book by Bentley B. Allan to trace how cosmological narratives define politics.

21.02.2019, Bookshelf

Plague Hospitals: Public Health for the City in Early Modern Venice

Writer Geoff Manaugh recommends a book by Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw to look at how architecture has been shaped by quarantine practices.

20.02.2019, Bookshelf

Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post-Anthropocene

A book recommended by the Strelka team that explores the new typology of the post-human and shows how technology and artificial intelligence are now computing, conditioning, and constructing our world. Edited by Liam Young.

25.12.2018, Bookshelf

Excerpt: ‘AI Aesthetics’ by Lev Manovich

Will AI replace professional cultural creators? Media theorist Lev Manovich discusses cultural uses of AI in his new book.

21.11.2018, Bookshelf

Excerpt: ‘Digital Tarkovsky’ by Metahaven

Does our constant connection to Facebook and Instagram change our perception of time? Can the use of social platforms be seen as a cinematic experience? Read the new essay by Metahaven to find out.

24.08.2018, Bookshelf

New Babylon: Radical Hospitality in a World Beyond Labor

An excerpt from Mark Wigley’s essay about an architectural paradigm of free space and time afforded by automation.

17.01.2018, Bookshelf

Excerpt: ‘Medium Design’ by Keller Easterling

Understanding and addressing the chemistry of power and using it to invert some of our habitual approaches to problem solving, aesthetics, and politics