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The Evolution of Fake Estates: Architecture Dejeuner with Sina Najafi
Sina Najafi, Cabinet Magazine
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Listen to a 69 minute recording, or download the file
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Slought Foundation
Architecture Dejeuner Series
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The Department of Architecture at PennDesign and Slought Foundation, Philadelphia are pleased to announce Architecture Dejeuner , a
series of seminars exploring spatial politics and research as a form of production, frequently (but not necessarily) during lunch. The first event in this series will feature Sina Najafi, editor-in-chief of Cabinet Magazine, New York, and will take place on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 from 6:30-8:00pm at Slought Foundation. Please note that these seminars address pre-circulated readings and are intended for an intimate group of scholars, students, and interested members of the community.
Download the event poster, or for information on other events in this series, visit http://slought.org/series/dejeuner/.
 In conjunction with this event, we are pleased to make available ‘Mythology: The Evolution of Fake Estates, Part II,’ an Interview by Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi, and Frances Richard from Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates (Cabinet Books / New York, in conjunction with the Queens Museum of Art and White Columns, 2005). Click here to download (PDF, 1.7mb)
Sina Najafi is editor-in-chief of Cabinet magazine (http://cabinetmagazine.org) and the editorial director of Cabinet Books. He is the editor of Letters from Mayhem (Cabinet Books), co-editor (with Sasha Archibald) of Presidential Doodles (Basic Books, 2006), and editorial director of Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip (Cabinet Books and Princeton Architecture Press, 2006). Najafi has also curated several exhibitions, including "Philosophical Toys" (Apex Art, summer 2005), “Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates” (White Columns and Queens Museum of Art, fall 2005; in collaboration with Jeffrey Kastner and Frances Richard), and the traveling exhibition “The Paper Sculpture Show" (traveling show: in collaboration with Matt Freedman and Mary Ceruti). He holds a B.A. from Princeton University, an M.A. from Columbia University, and an M. Phil. from New York University.
This program was made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of the Society of Friends of the Slought Foundation, and the Department of Architecture in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania
Organized by
Helene Furjan, Aaron Levy
Media files on the Slought.org website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
MLA Style:
Sina Najafi, et al. "The Evolution of Fake Estates: Architecture Dejeuner with Sina Najafi." Slought Foundation Online Content. [03 October 2007;
Accessed 18 March 2010]. <http://slought.org/content/11383/>.
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