Publications
Periodicals
SPEX 324
Jan 2010 | ‘Autorencharts’
10 best books of 2009
OnSite review 22
Dec 2009, on War/ Fall 2009 | ‘The (Im)Possible Border’
On East Coast Europe
Muhtelif no. 5
Dec 2009, Autumn 2009 | ‘Pretentious, romantic, but totally insightful’
In conversation with Rodney LaTourelle
Beyond no.2
Nov 2009 | Values and Symptoms – Shortstories on the Contemporary
On Symptomatic Values beyond the Romantic
Pin-Up issue 7
Nov 2009, Fall/Winter 09/10 | ‘Dubai-Düsseldorf, Future Dreaming at Gulf and Rhine”
Material on Dubai Düsseldorf
Kaleidoscope issue 04
Nov 2009 | ‘Schwerbelastungskörper’
On Albert Speer’s architectural test-grounds in Berlin
Abstracts/ W.I.R.E. 03/09
Nov 2009 | ‘Mind The Future: Wachstum über alles‘
Thesis on Growth
Beton Brut 2/09
Nov 2009 | ‘Spekulative Fantasien’
Material on Dubai Düsseldorf
SPEX 323
Nov 2009 | ‘Spiegelungen einer potenziellen Stadt’
In conversation with Bettina Pousttchi
Archive Journal issue 0
Jun 2009 | ‘Europe Index’
32 interviews on Europe
Urban Flux 4/09
Nov 2009 | ‘ECE’
Markus Miessen on East Coast Europe
Fillip no10
Fall 2009 | ‘re Participation’
Letter exchange between David Goldenberg and Markus Miessen
Der Zeit
July 2009 | (Fashion Week Berlin Daily) 07/09 ‘Give me dirt – more than this’
Markus Miessen interrogated by Eva Munz
AArchitecture (issue 9)
June 2009 | ‘States of Disintegration’
On the INS
Conditions
June 2009 | ‘Architecture as Political Practice’
Markus Miessen interviewed by Roemer van Toorn & nOffice | Accumulating Transitory Knowledge
032c (spring 2009)
May 2009 | ‘Berlin, Techno and the Easyjetset’
In conversation with Tobias Rapp
TAZ Die Tageszeitung
April 2009 | ‘Trend zum Vollen Haus’
Markus Miessen interviewed by Julia Grosse
Architectural Review
April 2009 | ‘The New Director’
In conversation with Philipp Oswalt
Cao Fei’s People’s Monthly
Mar 2009 | ‘Constructing Relationships’
On Spatial Effects
Log 13/14
Nov 2008 | ‘Toward a Parallel Reality’
On the politics of rebellion (forty years after 1968)
faceB
Nov 2008 | ‘the parallel lifes’
On contemporary spatial practices
Apartamento
Nov 2008 | ‘A Protest Against Disappearance’
On archives and libraries
ARTFORUM 10/2008
Oct 2008 | ‘Eastern Promises’
On OMA/AMO at the Hermitage
Icon Issue 64
Oct 2008 | ‘Conversation’
Berlin meeting between Olafur Eliasson and Markus Miessen
Monocle (Issue 18)
Oct 2008 | ‘Further than Beyond’
On the 2008 Venice Biennale
Betonart
July 2008 | ‘Katilimci Olarak Mimar ve Antagonizmin Olanaklari’
On The Violence of Participation and the Lyon Biennale
Abitare (483)
July 2008 | ‘Re:Mind’
Monthly recommendations
032c (summer 2008)
June 2008 | ‘Criticism and Celebration’
On the Winter School Middle East
AArchitecture (issue 6)
May 2008 | ‘The Grey Zone between Criticism and Celebration’
On the Winter School Middle East
Volume 4/2008
April 2008 | ‘Safe Haven’
On Hans Ulrich Obrist’s future mountain archive in Tschlin
Block
April 2008 | ‘When thoughts turn into acts’
On Dubai Labour Camps and Eyal Weizman’s Hollow Land’
Yale Constructs (spring 2008)
Mar 2008 | ‘The Uninvited Outsider’
On how to act beyond professional consensus
Fillip #7
Mar 2008 | ‘The Violence of Participation’
On the ongoing project of post-consensus politics
Bidoun Issue 13
Dec 2007 | ‘AA Winter School’
On the newly initiated Winter School Middle East
GAM.04
Nov 2007 | ‘Critical Spatial Practice as the Margin of Opportunity’
On alternative spatial practices and the Lyon Biennial 2007
An Architektur
Nov 2007 | ‘Camp for Oppositional Architecture’
A conversation on the Violence of Participation
Abitare (476)
Oct 2007 | ‘Re:Mind’
Monthly recommendations
Abitare (475)
Sept 2007 | ‘Re:Mind’
Monthly recommendations
Rhizome
Sept 2007 | ‘Empyre: Critical Spatial Practice’
Moderated by Renate Ferro and Tim Murray with Millie Chen, James Way, Catherine Ingraham, Kevin Hamilton, Alice Micelli, Maurice Benayoun, Teddy Cruz, and Markus Miessen
openDemocracy
Sept 2007 | ‘Europe: if participation is war, how to coexist?’
On spatial practices beyond models of consensus
Documenta Magazine online Journal
June 2007 | ‘The Violence of Participation‘ and ‘Made in Washington‘
On alternative conflictual approaches within spatial practice and the spatial conditions of the Camp
archplus 183
May 2007 | ‘Being political without producing politics’
On the Camp for Oppositional Architecture, Utrecht, 2006
Art Review: Digital
June 2007 | ‘We are all social workers (at least for two days)’
On the Situational Drive symposium, Cooper Union, New York
Qvest
May 2007 | ‘Breaking the Image, Expanding the Narrative’
Dubai and Sharjah are gearing up on the artworld’s fast-lane
Bazaar No3
May 2007 | ‘Kritiek door Kunst: De Biennale van Sharjah’’
Why Sharjah’s Biennale is different
Icon Issue 47
April 2007 | ‘Monocle’
Interrogating the new monthly magazine Monocle, with Kieran Long
Volume 10/2007
Jan 2007 | ‘Being political without producing politics’ (Online)
Reviewing the Camp for Oppositional Architecture, Utrecht
Bidoun Issue 9
Jan 2007 | ‘Artist project: I heard a Rumor’
(by S. Basar and M. Miessen)
Springerin Issue 1/07
Jan 2007 | ‘Andere Modernen/ Different Modernities, Dokumenta 12’
Die Gewalt der Partizipation: Räumliche Praktiken jenseits von Konsensmodellen
Derive Issue 1/07
Jan 2007 | ‘Raumpraxis als Stellmittel von Menschenrechten’
On spatial human rights violations
Diplo Issue 21
Nov 2006 | ‘Post-disciplinary spatial practice’
On Studio Miessen, in conversation with Mark Hudson
Icon Issue 41
Oct 2006 | ‘A pair of tube carriages’
On alternative spatial practices in East London
Contemporary 10/2006
Oct 2006 | ‘Wondering through the chasms of opportunity’
Spatial practices colonising the vacant territories that Universalism left wide open
Bidoun Issue 8
Oct 2006 | ‘A Refusal of Obligatory Extravagances’
Markus Miessen In conversation with Rem Koolhaas
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Eurozine (October 2006)
Oct 2006 | ‘The Fall of Bilbao’
New edit
Tank 09/2006
Sept 2006 | ‘Khartoum Time’
How European Architects have put Khartoum back on the geopolitical map
Eurozine (September 2006)
Sept 2006 | ‘Freiheitsstatu(t)en’
Re-visited German translation
A10 #10 [magazine for European Architecture]
July 2006 | ‘Communal building’
On a participatory church design in London’s East End
Eurozine
July 2006 | ‘Made in Washinton’
On Guantanamo post Supreme Court rule
ACT.plataforma colaborativa (v1.0)
July 2006 | ‘Spaces of Uncertainty’
On the value of marginal urban space
Club of Amsterdam Journal (issue 71)
July 2006 | ‘The Statu(t)e of Liberty’
Space and Power at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib
AArchitecture (issue 1)
June 2006 | ‘Socio-political: The Fall of Bilbao’
Architecture after signature style
Domus 893
June 2006 | ‘Soviet legacy’
On spatial realities in Putin’s Russia (with M. Murphy)
Edit
April 2006 | ‘Spaces of Uncertainty’
An essay on residual urban space (with K. Cupers)
Baunetz online
Mar 2006 | ‘Montierte Raum-Zeit-Erfahrungen’
In conversation with Tino Schaedler
Contemporary 3/2006
Mar 2006 | ‘The Fall of Bilbao’
Regarding an alternative architectural practice
Volume 3/2006
Mar 2006 | ‘The Statu(t)e of Liberty’
On the spatial implications of prisons and location as a blueprint of “evil”
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Garten+Landschaft 2/2006
Feb 2006 | ‘Unbestimmte Räume in der Stadt’
With Kenny Cupers
Domus online
Feb 2006 | ‘A Monument waiting to Happen’
Brainstorm regarding the future of Pyongyang’s Concrete Pyramid Hotel
Tank
Jan 2006 | ‘Archives Happen’
In conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Volume 4/2005
Dec 2005 | ‘The Ocean Never Dries’
SMS-conversation between Markus Miessen and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Static Issue01
Nov 2005 | ‘Statu(t)e of Liberty’
Dismantling the spatial realities of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib
Domus 884
Sept 2005 | ‘Letter from Cologne – European Kunsthalle’
On the current development of the European Kunsthalle and its reception
Bidoun Issue 4
Sept 2005 | ‘A Flat Discourse’
In conversation with Eyal Weizman, on the Iconoclasm of the Israeli Wall
Volume 2/2005
July 2005 | ‘Paper Politics’
Regarding paper waste in contemporary society
A10 #4 [magazine for European Architecture]
July 2005 | ‘Be Prepared’
On the future of the Architectural Association
sexymachinery 11
May 2005 | ‘Spaces of Uncertainty’
A web-based “manual for life” (with M. L. Murphy)
Bob 1/2005
May 2005 | ‘Feuchte Träume und Architektur’
Das Spannungsfeld von Privatleben, sozialer Realität und Ausbildung
AAfiles no51
Mar 2005 | ‘Substitune’
An alternative model for urban regeneration
Tank vol 3/11
Sept 2004 | ‘The Unquiet American’
A conversation with Noam Chomsky
Archis 4/2004
Sept 2004 | ‘Objects in mirror are closer than they appear’
Feature article on architecture and democracy (case study Ground Zero)
Building Design Issue 1636
July 2004 | ‘Class of 2004 -The UK’s Top Graduates’
On the Substitune® project
Archis 2/2004
Mar 2004 | ‘Wet Dreams and Architecture’
On the tension between personal life, social reality and education
A+ 183
Oct 2003 | ‘Niemandsland’
Selected photographic work from the research project Spaces of Uncertainty (with K. Cupers)
Blueprint 7/2003
July 2003 | ‘Trade Off’
Feature article on Libeskind’s Ground Zero proposal and its media strategy
Polis 2/2003
July 2003 | ‘Migration’
Photographic essay (with K. Cupers)
Polis 1/2003
Mar 2003 | ‘Spaces of Uncertainty’
Regarding the realities of residual urban space (with K. Cupers)