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The podcast of the talk featuring Ayssar Arida and Pedro Gadanho, and hosted by John Thackara is now online at livelanguage.org ‘Designers in the age of Fear’- City and Architecture was recorded on: Sep 16 11h30 – 13h30, Lisbon

The CSR’s first Orchitecture Event, a celebration of architecture through orchestra and vice versa, was a fantastic success. The live music/CCTV video installation developed by Ayssar Arida and Thor McB with the NLO for English Heritage had around 3000 visitors!

The Urban Archipelago is a brilliant analysis of the post-election map of the US, that fits wonderfully within the quantum paradigm of complementarity (if you have the book, check out pp142-145, in chapter “Quantum Analysis of the Urban Realm” : forget BLACK/WHITE (or RED/BLUE!) and look at the finer grain, at the gradations, and suddenly […]

Join us Thursday 28 October at Vickyh Destinations in Geneva for good drinks and good discussions! Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter, le jeudi 28 Octobre, pour rencontrer l’architecte Ayssar Arida, qui viendra présenter et dédicacer son livre QUANTUM CITY. De 18h00 à 21h00 Vickyh destinations 92, rue des Eaux-vives 1207 Genève t. +41.22.940.17.47 […]

The English version of the AA Interview from ARCHITECTURA E VIDA, JAN 2004 is now online.

The proceedings of the (theorising) History in Architecture and Design conference, held in Oslo 25-27 April 2003 have just been published, and include a slightly different version of Ayssar Arida’s THE 70 YEAR ITCH OR THE DAWN OF THE QUANTUM CITY, it’s on page 201.

December 2003 issue of JACK MAGAZINE carries a TOP 10 BEIRUT things to do by author Kris Kenway, with photographs by Ayssar Arida.

Ghassan Salhab’s TERRA INCOGNITA (Selection Officielle Cannes 2002) is showing at the LFF 2003…

Paper by AA and Michael Stanton published in the beautifully executed October issue of ARCHIS Magazine #4, 2003, pp.60-68

Paper by AA presented at the ISUF conference in Trani, published in the Conference Proceedings, vol 3, p.1006.