Publications
PIDGIN issue #25
“Architectural Things, From Verbs to Nouns”
Published by Princeton School of Architecture, this essay examines post-digital architecture and its turn towards the proliferation of objects, nouns, and things. Intended as Part I of a 2-part essay exploring Bill Brown’s Thing Theory in architecture.
tHE aRCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER
“Is the medium the message in post-digital architecture?”
A book review for Possible Mediums, a collection of the most important experimental architectural practices today.
POOL issue #2
“simulation, identity, and the Gayming community”
Published by UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, Max Kuo interviews clients on the culture of gay gamers and the need for a supportive and celebratory community space in NYC.
mas context issue #27, debate
“Architectural Things, From Verbs to Nouns”
A graphic essay reframing the parameters of persistent themes in architecture
acsa 103 paper proceedings
“contradicting complexity: Generative systems and the insurgency of misfits”
Max Kuo re-examines the history and influence of complexity theory on architecture and the more recent discovery of generative misfits in architectural design
Open Letters Harvard GSD
“Dear Wall,”
Max Kuo writes a love letter to architecture in the age of Trump
INTERSPACE DIALOGUE
“PLUSHSCAPE”
A catalog published by Seoul Museum of Art, ALLTHATISSOLID’s installation Plushscape provided an immersive lounge for the viewing of art films
bracket [goes soft]
“swamp thing”
ALLTHATISSOLID’s Swamp Thing project designs new ecological and urban futures for the San Francisco Bay in the face of rising tides
thresholds issue #34, portability
“Architectural Things, From Verbs to Nouns”
Published by MIT, Max Kuo’s conceptual project accelerates the uneven urban development and metabolic delirium of pre-Olympics Beijing.