Interstices 07
Gen-ius/Gen-ealogy
Edited by A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul and Lucy Holmes
Gen-ius/Gen-ealogy, explores genius and genealogy as common threads within architecture and art. It also features the first English translation, by Laurence Simmons, of Giorgio Agamben’s 2004 essay “Genius”, a text that provided many contributors with a common platform for their reflections on genius and genealogy.
Contents
Refereed papers
Thomas Mical
Genius, Genus, Genealogy: Hejduk’s Potential Angels
Guy Châtel
Plan Obus and Vipcity, as from Father to Son
Carl Douglas
Latecomers
Desley Luscombe
Constructing the Architect of the Italian Renaissance
Helene Furján
Signature Effects: John Soane and the Mark of Genius
Mirjana Lozanovska
Mistresses and Others: The “body as subject” in (architectural) discourse
Mark Jackson
Genius Loci
Laurence Simmons
“I AM”: Colin McCahon Genius or Apostle
Non-refereed Papers, Projects, Reviews, Translations
Giorgio Agamben
Genius (translation by Laurence Simmons)
Stephen Appel
Dreamlikeness
Michael Gunder
Planning’s Contradicting Genius within the Twilight against the Empty Night
Lucy Holmes
The Passion of Ignorance
Arapata Hakiwai
Carved Histories: Rotorua Ngäti Tarawhai Woodcarving
John Walsh
Genius and Genealogy
Leonhard Emmerling
Indifference as a Subversive Strategy
Tony Green
landscape/inscape
Moana Nepia
A Marriage of Convenience?