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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’…

2 min readJul 14, 2017

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July 14th

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David Turnbull

Generosity

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

2 min readJul 13, 2017

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Generosity

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David Turnbull

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…

2 min readJul 11, 2017

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In a dream

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David Turnbull

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…

1 min readJul 10, 2017

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Litmus Test

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David Turnbull

An architecture of air

Maison du Brésil, Paris — 07/07_2017

3 min readJul 9, 2017

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An architecture of air

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David Turnbull

The Fourth

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

2 min readJul 5, 2017

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The Fourth

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David Turnbull

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…

2 min readJul 3, 2017

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Le Polidor

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David Turnbull

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…

2 min readJun 26, 2017

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The Sunken Cathedral

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David Turnbull

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…

2 min readJun 26, 2017

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The End of the Word

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David Turnbull

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…

2 min readJun 15, 2017

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Common Things

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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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