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I recently received a fascinating text by Gemma Wheeler who is currently completing her Masters in Architecture at Cardiff University. Enti...

Great lecture by Tim Edensor, author of the book "Industrial Ruins - Space, Aesthetics and Materiality".  Filmed and organised b...

"Planners love telling us which way to walk. Our built environment- especially our mercantile spaces, shopping centres and the like - ...

"The contemporary obsession with ruins is neither a Baroque meditation on worldly vanitas, nor a romantic mourning for the lost wholene...

From Traction Magazine

Essay by Karl Wallick here

"Bruno Latour wants to argue that this cult of the past - this need, at one and the same time , to conjure the past , revere it , excis...

"...ruins, as particular spaces for disorder, can critique the highly regulated spaces which surround them. My argument is not that sp...

"Wasteland weeds and flowers are as individual to the twenty-first-century English city as a forgotten coat of arms or motto. By the E...

Slavoj Zizek on waste in "Examined Life" "One way of considering ruins and their contents...is as waste. According to th...

"Much of visionary architecture, in Barthes's view, embodies a profound double movement; it is always 'a dream and a function, ...

http://vimeo.com/13673739

"Nostalgia is never very far away when we talk about authenticity or romantic ruins. The political critique of ruin nostalgia simply a...

"...The ruin is a shadow realm of slowness in which things are revealed at a less frantic pace. Within this relative stillness, bypass...

Passage from "Some thoughts on Anticipated Ruins" by Magali Arriola (Found within "Ruins: Documents of Contemporary Art...