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Developing Ambiguity: Idea, Imagination and Michelangelo’s Sketches for the Porta Pia (2019)
Journal Article
Kauffman, J. (2019). Developing Ambiguity: Idea, Imagination and Michelangelo’s Sketches for the Porta Pia. Architecture and Culture, 7(2), 249-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2019.1643583

For his last architectural work, the Porta Pia, Michelangelo Buonarotti produced some extraordinary drawings, which this article proposes are the first in architecture’s history to embody the creative potentials of sketching. In them, many ideas coal... Read More about Developing Ambiguity: Idea, Imagination and Michelangelo’s Sketches for the Porta Pia.

“Form and Use” and Environments for an Open Society: MIT, ca. 1969 (2019)
Journal Article
Kauffman, J. (2019). “Form and Use” and Environments for an Open Society: MIT, ca. 1969. Architectural Theory Review, 23(1), 23-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2019.1616371

“Form and Use in Architecture” was constructed and mounted at MIT’s Hayden Gallery in 1969. Designed and assembled by students with guidance from Stanford Anderson, then professor at MIT, it was a means to test Anderson’s theories of design. The exhi... Read More about “Form and Use” and Environments for an Open Society: MIT, ca. 1969.