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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.

Dessiner avec l’ordinateur dans les années soixante : le design et ses pratiques à l’aube de l’ère numérique (2016)
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Kauffman, J. (2016). Dessiner avec l’ordinateur dans les années soixante : le design et ses pratiques à l’aube de l’ère numérique. Livraisons d’Histoire de l’Architecture, 105-123. https://doi.org/10.4000/lha.643

Les premières explorations de l'utilisation des ordinateurs dans le domaine du design 1 ont débuté dans les années 1960, près de trente ans avant que le « tournant numérique » (digital turn) ne s'empare du champ de la production architecturale. À cet... Read More about Dessiner avec l’ordinateur dans les années soixante : le design et ses pratiques à l’aube de l’ère numérique.

Architecture in the Art Market: The Max Protetch Gallery (2016)
Journal Article
Kauffman, J. (2016). Architecture in the Art Market: The Max Protetch Gallery. Journal of Architectural Education, 70(2), 257-268. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2016.1197674

During the 1970s and 1980s, new networks of galleries, collectors, and institutions arose that focused on architectural representations. These networks were integral to the emergence of architectural drawings as primary objects of interest, as they s... Read More about Architecture in the Art Market: The Max Protetch Gallery.