On the Non-Greenness of Nature: Debris, Dust and Other Atmospheric Architectures
<p>This conversation with David Gissen uses his two book <em>Subnature </em>and <em>Manhattan Atmospheres </em>in order to demystify the politically charged romanticism of a “green” nature. We talk about the unwanted matter of architecture: dust, puddles, debris, exhaust as components of a subnature that carry in them more ambiguous socio-political narratives than the marketable greenness. The second part of the conversation is particularly attached to the history of the atmospheric urbanity of Manhattan, before we end by introducing David’s project to reproduce the mound of dirt of the 1871 Paris Commune on which the Vendôme Column had been ceremonially destroyed.</p>
Host: Léopold Lambert
Guests: David Gissen
Part of: The Funambulist Podcast