Böcker utgivna av LIMBO PRESS

Even 30 years ago, some were already arguing that architecture was 'stuck.' Our profession, it seems, had become 'exhausted' or suspended in a kind of nihilism, producing simulacrums of the new, or else tirelessly reproducing variations on themes with no real historical, developmental, or progressive effects whatsoever. Yosuke Fujiki addressed this poverty in his entry to Shinkenchiku (New Architecture) magazine's yearly Residential Design Competition in 1992, themed 'A House with No Style'.For the past three years, several aspiring architects have practised a modified form of Fujiki's exercise in a short workshop run by Limbo Press, each producing 48 plans in 48 hours or less - 2,304 in total. This short exercise is part of a larger pedagogical and architectural research agenda that explores the tendency of architecture towards the 'non-typological' culminating in a practice that re-addressing the question of type in architecture.

Leon Battista Alberti, an author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and polymath, wrote "Profugiorum ab ærumna libri III" in the first half of the 1440s. Alberti's dialogue engages with historical and philosophical influences from antiquity, Christianity, and the Middle Ages while emphasizing the significance of sensory perception and the sensual experience of the world. "Profugiorum ab ærumna" offers insight into 15th-century Florentine humanism and presents an early modern interpretation of self-cultivation and care. Alberti develops an ironic idea of therapy that challenges the Stoic belief in finding a definitive cure for the difficulties and uncertainty of cultural and social life, and a resulting anguish. Instead, he proposes techniques and practices, including exercises in architecture and rationality, to ward off anguish and listlessness, while recognizing that disquiet, as a sign of the Other, can only ever be temporarily overcome.