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David Turnbull

July 14th

In Paris, all over France, in former colonies and in the diaspora, July 14th, ‘le 14 juillet’ is a very big day, ‘la Fête nationale’…

Jul 14, 2017

July 14th

Jul 14, 2017

Generosity

I was in the 16th arrondissement today meeting friends. After lunch I walked from the Alma-Marceau metro station to the Avenue du…

Jul 13, 2017

Generosity

Jul 13, 2017

In a dream

I am planning a journey, hunting for heretics, tracking the shadows of ideas, through a landscape that is still marked by the traces of…

Jul 11, 2017

In a dream

Jul 11, 2017

Litmus Test

Andre Breton, crazy in love…mad love, l’amour fou, is walking in the sun past his ‘great monument to the unrevealed world’, the Tour…

Jul 10, 2017

Litmus Test

Jul 10, 2017

An architecture of air

Maison du Brésil, Paris — 07/07_2017

Jul 9, 2017

An architecture of air

Jul 9, 2017

The Fourth

We are celebrating the 4th July in Paris — which presents some interesting possibilities when it comes to decisions about food, and…

Jul 5, 2017

The Fourth

Jul 5, 2017

Le Polidor

Today, according to the calendar made by the Collège de ‘Pataphysique, is the eighteenth day in the month of Gidouille, Spiral, in the year…

Jul 3, 2017

Le Polidor

Jul 3, 2017

The Sunken Cathedral

In 1978, around this time of the year — prompted by a friend, I read a collection of stories, written by Anaïs Nin in Paris, mostly in the…

Jun 26, 2017

The Sunken Cathedral

Jun 26, 2017

The End of the Word

To the end of the world, not really… actually looking upstream, past the house-boats on Chelsea Reach, to the World’s End Estate. Planned…

Jun 26, 2017

The End of the Word

Jun 26, 2017

Common Things

In a prelude to his brilliant ‘Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris’, “questioning the banal, the quotidian, the obvious, the common, the…

Jun 15, 2017

Common Things

Jun 15, 2017

David Turnbull

David Turnbull

Professor of Architecture at The Cooper Union in New York City, Design Director for PITCHAfrica / Waterbanks and ATOPIA Innovation, FRSA

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