The video clips you see below consitute a growing anthology. They are arranged alphabetically by author. You may play them one at a time or several at once. The texts chosen by readers all imagine and attend to the ‘architecture’ of utopia. This collection of readings, gathered from the utopian talk-show line-up events and from the online community aims to act as a testimony to our collective desire to image difference. Thanks to the host organisations, to all our readers and to our intern Libby Clayton. For more information.
Structured alphabetically by author of reading.
Neufert ‘Architects’ Data’, BSP Professional Books (1994) p.133 read by Fredrik Torrisson
Caroline O’Donnell, ‘Fugly’ in Log: 22, Anyone Corporation (2011) pp. 96-97 and pp. 99-100 read by Apexa Patel
Paul O’Neill, ‘To Go Beyond –The Emergence of The Durational Commons’ in Warren and Mosley ‘Beyond Utopia’ Surface Tension Supplement No. 5, Errant Bodies Press (2012) pp. 11-12 read by Kathrin Bohm
Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou of atelier d’architecture autogueree, ‘Alterotopias (series 1-18)’ catalogue,Venice Architecture Biennial (2012) read by Kathrin Bohm
Dennis Potter, ‘Karaoke and Cold Lazarus’ Faber and Faber (1996) p.306 read by Peter Dickinson
Elizabeth Price, ‘The Tent’ in Warren and Mosley, ‘Beyond Utopia’, Surface Tension Supplement No. 5, Errant Bodies Press (2012) pp. 91, 93 read by Richard Hawley with an addition from ‘Notes to the Reader’ on the dust jacket of Warren and Mosley, ibid. read by Gavin Wade.
Elizabeth Price, ‘The Tent’ in Warren and Mosley, ‘Beyond Utopia’, Surface Tension Supplement No. 5, Errant Bodies Press (2012) p. 97 read by Apexa Patel
Elizabeth Price ‘The Tent’ in Warren and Mosley, ‘Beyond Utopia’, Surface Tension Supplement No. 5, Errant Bodies Press (2012), pp.100-102 read by Ida Borjel
Reich, Ebbe & Prins, Henning ‘Langelands Manifesto’, IMLADRIS (1972) read by Ole Lykke Andersen
Jane Rendell, ‘May Mourn’ in Warren and Mosley, ‘Beyond Utopia’, Surface Tension Supplement No. 5, Errant Bodies Press (2012) p.67 and pp. 68-74 read by Apexa Patel
George Saunders, ‘Escape from Spiderhead’ in ’10th of December’ Bloomsbury (2013) pp. 45-47 read by Marie-Anne McQuay
Thomas L. Schumacher, ‘Terragni’s Danteum’ Princeton Architectural Press (2004) p.39
read by Ed Whittaker
Felicity D. Scott, ‘Woodstockholm’ in Meg McLagan and Yates McKee (eds) ‘Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism’ MIT Press (2012) read by Eric Snodgrass
Richard Sennett, ‘The Uses of Disorder’ Pelican (1973) pp.127-28 read by Harry Charrington
Dan Simmons, ‘Hyperion’ Headline Feature (1991) pp. 205-206 read by Richard Hawley
David Simon & Edward Burns ‘The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood’, Canongate Books Ltd (1998) p. 65 read by Maria Engberg
Gertrude Stein ‘Everybody’s Autobiography’, Exact change (1993) pp. 219-220 read by Ida Börjel
Lee Stickells, ‘Thinking the Break’ in Warren and Mosley ‘Beyond Utopia’ Surface Tension Supplement No. 5, Errant Bodies Press (2012) pp.86-87 read by Lindsay Hughes
Lee Stickells ‘Thinking the Break – text, tactics and critical architecture’ in Warren and Mosley ‘Beyond Utopia’ Surface Tension Supplement No. 5, Errant Bodies Press (2012), p.86-87 read by Fredrik Torrisson
Lee Stickells and Sophie Warren ‘Agonistic Vocabulary’ in Warren and Mosley, ‘Beyond Utopia’ Surface Tension Supplement No. 5, Errant Bodies Press (2012) pp109-112 read by Lena Mattsson and Eric Snodgrass
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