Anarchitecture

Tim and Joe were recently interviewed on "Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock." 

A wide ranging discussion covering everything from flying cars (of course) to flying pirate ships.

Use hashtag #ana017 to reference this episode in a tweet, post, or comment

View full show notes at anarchitecturepodcast.com/ana017.

Tim explains how this interview came about. Joe recorded it at 12:30AM in his car.

Segment #1

Joe has been relegated to the car

Introduction to Tim, Joe and Anarchitecture Podcast

"BUT WHO WILL BUILD THE COMPLIANCE?"

Zoning creates more conflict than it solves

TRIPLE SNEEZE

Leave Me Alone-ism

DEAD AIR/ JOE'S BRAIN FART

Home Owner's Associations

What is the physical architecture of freedom?

FLYING CARS!

Break #1

Pirates Without Borders

"You gotta have a pirate ship"

Anarchy is only 62 miles straight up

"We're not off the grid - we're ABOVE the grid"

Segment #2

How do Anarchist children rebel?

Podcast launch and reach

A bridge between libertarianism and built environment/urbanism

The Market Urbanism movement - catching on, still some work to do

Is there a physical structure to freedom?

Oceania and Seasteading - "my own platform... honeycomb... kiss my butt."

Two extremes:

1. Individual plots of land/vehicles

2. Cities - benefits of network effects

Will a prosperous city always suffer predation/taxation?

Break #2

The last guy in the world to get into Blockchain

Jay Noone - Snow Plow / Cryptocurrency Consultant

Segment #3

Anarchitecture Profile

Changes in Latitude

Travel Plans

Podcast Feed Logistics

Badmirror.tv

Prospects for Liberty in Australia

QR Codes in the bush for gold miners

Break #3

The Precariat Airship

"Oh yeah - It goes to SPACE, man!"

Segment #4

Get People Thinking in 3D

Sergey Brin building his own airship

How Flying Cars will affect cities

Cities can offer something for everyone

Density leads to diversity and opportunity

"...but I want to live here in the Leave Me Alone Zone and Suck It"

Effects of freedom of transportation

Transportation reduces transaction cost, opens up markets

Break #4

Precariat Airship Materials

Zero-G Basketball Court 

Freedom's Phoenix

Original Episode Post on Freedom's Phoenix

Pirates without Borders

Badmirror.TV

The Precariat - Pirate Airship

Sergey Brin's Airship

Dubai Flying Cars

In a rare in-person episode, Tim and Joe speculate about how technological trends will shape the future of cities.

Use hashtag #ana016 to reference this episode in a tweet, post, or comment

View full show notes at anarchitecturepodcast.com/ana016.

FINALLY WE CAN TALK SERIOUSLY ABOUT FLYING CARS

Joe's report from the future: Living in Australia is like living 15 years ago in the US

Actually, Amazon Australia Launched 3 weeks after we recorded this episode. WE MAKE THE FUTURE HAPPEN

Australia's NBN: National Boondoggle Network

By the time it's installed, it's obsolete

Crowding out private investment

A perfect example of why governments shouldn't build infrastructure

Status quo thinking

Grandiose infrastructure projects vs. necessary maintenance

The Strong Towns approach

Smart Cities

Sensors and centralized management

Algorithms and AI

Informing future development

Roads and complexity - Can AI optimize traffic?

Smart grids - balancing demand

Hayekian knowledge problem

How useful is all of this information?

What's the real benefit?

Incremental development vs. political grandstanding

Joe's market solution for traffic light priority

To optimize road systems, privatize them

Automated Vehicles

A giant leap, or incremental adoption?

Communication, reaction time, and automatic re-routing

Vast improvements in vehicle safety

Induced demand

Expanding the suburban catchment area: an exponential relationship

Urbanization, Suburbanization and Exurbanization

Telecommuting

Robots building robots to build other things

Benefits of face to face meetings

Milton Keynes - No relation to defunct economists

Patrik Schumacher's EXTREME view: a 15 minute commute is too far

Economies of agglomeration

"Cities are the brains that direct the rural muscle"

Ed Glaeser - Triumph of the City

Skyscrapers and Universities

"We could be the new Pittsburgh!"

Another Adelaide boondoggle - the new medical precinct

Adelaide's coming rental market crash

Foreign buyers will lose their shirts

A paucity of safe investment opportunities - because CENTRAL BANKS

Job opportunities draw people to cities

Slums and favelas - a symptom of opportunity

Resourcefulness of slum dwellers to compensate for lack of capital

Property rights for slums

The Long Now Foundation

Demographics - Human population as an "S" curve

Feeding the Cities

Vertical Farms - might make sense if they're horizontal

A long way from crowding out the land

Permaculture - pigs are high tech

Monoculture - the result of subsidies

Logistics

Automated Delivery

Online grocery shopping - more energy efficient

Night time deliveries

Fedex's parking ticket manager

Automated Vehicles, Congestion, and Parking

Drop you off, go park itself

Changing multimodal transit

Dynamic routes - adapting to needs in real time

Doubling peak hour congestion?

Eliminating on street parking?

Induced demand strikes again

FLYING CARS - THE REAL SOLUTION

Peter Thiel - "We wanted flying cars, and we got 140 characters"

Jetsons? Rin tin tin? Flubber? Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

Automated vehicles are a necessary prerequisite to flying cars

Flipping the city upside down

Streets become streets again - more public spaces

Don't park - Hover!

Helicopter taxis in Sao Paulo

Energy density is essential

Micro nukes flying around the city driven by self-aware AI's - what could possibly go

wrong?

Other Advances in Energy

Thorium reactors

Virtual power plants - aggregating decentralized power sources

"Behind the meter" schemes

Solar farm shares rather than roof-mounted

Photovoltaic roof shingles

Solar roads - a non-starter

Batteries

Your car can power your house

Quick charging stations

WE NEED THE ENERGON

Construction Industry Technology

Modular construction

Bricklaying robots

Tim loves watching masons work

3D printed buildings

Drone cranes - what could possibly go wrong?

Japanese demolition - No more working at heights

VR Drone site visits

Holographic design

Augmented Reality

Virtual Reality

Will we still build real places?

Authenticity matters

Cities provide authentic experiences

VR allows people to live where they want

Virtual 20th High School Reunion is better than the real thing

Are haptic hugs creepy?

The Future of Politics

A path to privatization?

The trend towards decentralization favors free markets and deregulation

Technology - tool for liberation or control?

Liberty Minecraft - The Virtual Built Environment of a Stateless Society

Two trends: individualization and voluntary socialization

Two more trends: Technology disrupting jobs and technology creating ultra-abundance

Low skilled workers becoming more entrepreneurial

Passive income opportunities

Reason to be optimistic

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says NBN was a mistake and it may never make money

Strong Towns

Waze

Traffic Jam Experiment (Video)

Automated Cars in Intersections - Pretty sure this is faked, but illustrates the idea.

Induced demand

Ed Glaeser - Triumph of the City

The Long Now Foundation

Seminars About Long Term Thinking (SALT)

Clock of the Long Now (Danny Hillis SALT Talk)

Stewart Brand on Cities and Demographics (SALT Talk)

Vertical Farming

Permaculture:

Permies

Drew Sample - Urban Permaculture

Peter Thiel's Manifesto About Flying Cars (and some other stuff). TL;DR

Thorium Reactors

Virtual Power Plants

Blockchain based "Behind the Meter" Scheme in Australia

Tesla's Photovoltaic Roof Shingles

Transformers Energon

China: 57-Story Skyscraper built in 19 Days

Japanese Building Demolition

Google Earth - Kennedy Space Center

Liberty Minecraft

Tim was interviewed on Danilo Cuellar's "Peaceful Anarchism" Podcast.

A fun and wide-ranging discussion leaving no stone unturned.

Use hashtag #ana015 to reference this episode in a tweet, post, or comment.

View full show notes at anarchitecturepodcast.com/ana015.

"It's all about the jokes."

Summary of The Foundations Series

Divestiture of property

Libertarians colonizing the moon

Private ownership of public space

Homesteading for public use

Divesting government property

Public forms of ownership

Why the 90's were a joke

How Tim became a libertarian

The genesis of Anarchitecture podcast

Ron Paul, the exception that proves the rule that politicians are dirtbags

The scales framework, revisited

Resolving conflict at different scales of the built environment

You don't need national defense if you don't have a nation

Democratic nation-states put a target on the back of every citizen

38% of land mass is owned by Federal and State governments. Most is in western states. Local government land ownership and roads may increase this percentage.

Government owned property is a honeypot for invaders

Property divestiture makes government less necessary

Private ownership and competition of power utilities, roads, water distribution

Monopoly and its malcontents

Everyone loves parks

Preservation through privatization

London's Green Belt

The destructive effects of "free" government roads

Government trains vs. private trains

Improving road safety through private ownership of roads

40,000 people die each year on US roads.

Tim's favorite quote: "Tu Ne Cede Malis, Sed Contra Audentior Ito" - Ludwig von Mises' personal motto, from Virgils "The Aeneid" (Which we read in 3rd year Latin class and promptly forgot).

Antarchitecture, revisited

"A latticework of harmony" - Beautiful!

Important announcements

Danilo Cuellar's Peaceful Anarchism

- Home Page

- YouTube Channel

The Foundations Series - Including The Scales Framework and Antarchitecture

Gardner Goldsmith hasn't updated his website in a while... We can relate.

FEE

Harry Browne on Maximizing Personal Freedom

Independent Institute

Freedomain Radio

Free Talk Live

The Ludwig Von Mises Institute

Morris and Linda Tannehil - The Market for Liberty

Christopher Chase Rachels - A Spontaneous Order

Annual Road Death Toll in the US

Kevin Carson- The Distorting Effects of Transportation Subsidies

ana010: Syndicalism in One Act (Starts at 1:12:30)

Tim and Joe deep-dive on some of the ideas that Tim presented in his 2017 Porcfest speech (ana013). In particular, we consider opportunities and challenges of privatizing public space using “opt-in trusts.”

View full show notes at anarchitecturepodcast.com/ana014.

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We recommend listening to the previous episode ana013 before this one.

Joe’s reaction

An important contribution to Libertarian theory

Similar ideas in Libertarian thought

Roderick Long – Homesteading public use

Walter Block

Space: The Final Public Space

Hans Herman Hoppe

Public Space as a foundation of the State

Does government ownership legitimize immigration restrictions?

Governments may not have the same reciprocal rights as private property owners

Forceful eviction conflicts with the NAP, but is a reasonable right for private property owners to reciprocally extend to each other

Frank Van Dun – Freedom of Movement and Encirclement

Walter Block Rebuttal – Tunnels and Helicopters

THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS FLYING CARS

Government should not have the right to restrict public use

Porcfest Reactions to Tim’s speech

View from the top

Ownership by abutters

Slippery Slope – back to the Hoppe argument

Easement for public use

Opt-In Trusts

Buyout process to remove from public use

Give people a choice in the level of ownership

Ownership structures – let the market sort it out

Who gets to opt-in to the trust?

The same conundrum as Marxist “everybody owns everything”

Russian Vouchers, windfall profits, de facto monopolies

Universal Basic Income vs. Universal Dividend

Dilution of dividends

How can Trusts raise money?

Why you don’t want Australian Roads

Privatize Public Space = Privatize Everything

No government property means no need for government police

A workable incremental approach

Create your Opt-In Trust today!

Friends of the Park

Demonstrating good faith – Open Source Charters

Post-State Cities – Stay Tuned

Free Staters looking to build – Give Tim a Call – Adra Architecture

ana013: Private Ownership of Public Space | Part 1: Tim’s Porcfest Speech

Roderick Long – In Defense of Public Space

Hans Herman Hoppe on Public Space and Immigration

Stephan Kinsella – Land Claims are Relative

Hoppe – Divest to the Taxpayers – Near the end of the article. See also the Kinsella link above for a reference to Hoppe’s position.

Note, we will discuss Hoppe’s immigration argument in Part 3 of the Citizen of Nowhere Series, whenever we get around to finishing it.

Walter Block’s Rebuttal to Hoppe

Frank Van Dun – Freedom and Property – Where They Conflict

Walter Block’s Rebuttal to Van Dun

Jeffrey Tucker – Flying Cars

Use hashtag #ana014 to reference this episode in a tweet, post, or comment

Tim presented a speech at the 14th Annual Porcupine Freedom Festival (Porcfest), titled “Private Ownership of Public Space in Post-State Cities.” He addressed three key questions:

1. What is “public space” and why should libertarians care about it?

2. How can public use be preserved under private ownership?

3. How can state owned spaces be divested into private ownership?

This episode features a brief discussion about Porcfest, and the full recording of Tim’s speech.

View full show notes at anarchitecturepodcast.com/ana013.

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“You had me at ‘Privatization'”

What is the Free State Project?

A pledge by 20,000 libertarian activists to move to New Hampshire within five years.

Adra Architecture – The Official Sponsor of Anarchitecture Podcast (a shameless plug for Tim’s new architecture practice)

Terms and Conditions apply

Tim’s profit-seeking motive for sponsoring PorcFest

The Porcupine as a symbol of Liberty

What the Free State Project and Kim Jong Il have in common

FIGHT CLUB – Tim vs. Jeffrey Tucker

The Porcfest crowd

Not “With Her”

Bohemians in tie-dye

Ex-military guys with assault rifles

Bohemians in tie-dye with assault rifles

Bitcoin computer geeks

Families

Business people

Academics

The big umbrella of libertarianism

Porcfest Events

Debates on zoning, immigration

Patrick Byrne – CEO of Overstock.com

Dale Brown, from Detroit Threat Management Center

Burning Porcupine

Pig roast

Vendor booths for businesses, food, and merchandise

The “Adra Lounge” – Tim’s own piece of public space

Thanking our entire audience for going to Porcfest

OMG WE ARE CELEBRETARIANS NOW!!!

Brett Veinotte from School Sucks Project

Steve Patterson – Tim throws down the gauntlet, which was quantum entangled so that it was really Joe throwing it down.

“Speaking of shooting off your mouth… my speech.”

The Adra Lounge

What is public space?

Ownership of land

Divestiture of government property

Ownership of public space

Post-state cities

…and why should libertarians care about it?

Space that is accessible to non-owners without invitation, with reasonable restrictions

Access to Public Space

…a sliding scale

Public Space

No permission for entry, no permission for occupancy

(Public park)

Permissible Public Space

Minor permissions for entry and / or occupancy, i.e. Pay a fee

(Movie theater)

Permissible Private Space

Major restrictions on entry and/or occupancy

(Corporate building lobby)

Private Space

Invitation only

(Private Home)

Categories of Public Space

Open Space

Urban open space (plazas and parks)

Natural areas (hiking trails, nature preserves, beaches, preserved farmland)

Enclosed parks (theme parks, amusement parks, botanical gardens)

 Buildings

Social / Cultural facilities (museums, theaters, community centers, libraries, tourist attractions, sports arenas)

Mercantile facilities (Farmers markets, malls, shops, restaurants)

Transportation facilities (airports, train stations, bus stations)

 Pathways

Roads and rights-of-way

Waterways (Rivers, lakes, oceans)

Parking (Lots, garages, on-street spaces)

Restrictions on Public Space

…do not necessarily disqualify a space as “public”

Administrative Restrictions:

Fees for use (park fees, road tolls)

Hours of use

Occupancy capacity (egress, parking)

Types of occupancy (camping, mercantile, assembly)

Behavioral Restrictions:

Disruptive / aggressive behavior / drinking

Reckless driving

Criminality

Health and safety risks

Why is public space important?

Essential to human functioning

Freedom of movement

Marketplaces – Access to goods, services, and jobs

Recreation, nature, history, and arts

Social interaction, public discourse, protest, celebration

Public Space Summary

Space that is accessible to non-owners without invitation, with reasonable restrictions

Many types of public space – Open Space, Buildings, Pathways

Government owned and privately owned

Degrees of access with permissions

Many private facilities have public space components (i.e. Lobbies)

Expectation of entry (if not occupancy) on most properties

Restrictions on entry and occupancy

Public space is essential to public life

Essential elements of ownership

Reasonable freedom from adverse use inhibiting desired use

Duration of desired use with minimal risk of seizure (i.e. lease term)

Freedom to transfer ownership rights at will, in whole (sale) or in part (lease)

Necessity of Land Ownership

Private property ownership of land is essential to settlement and production.

Any society that is not nomadic needs to allocate private property to farm the land and build homes, roads, and infrastructure, with minimal risk of seizure, eviction, and adverse use by others.

Means of Enforcing Land Ownership

Architectural Means

Fences, Gates, Walls, Doors, Intrusion Alarms

Legal Means

Titles, Deeds, Trusts, Surveys, Liens, Homestead, Common Law / Custom

Forceful Means

Armed Security, Forceful Eviction, Booby Traps

Is forceful eviction consistent with the non-aggression principle?

…and the sign says anybody caught trespassing will be shot on sight

So I jumped the fence and yelled to the house, Hey, what gives you the right?

To put up a fence to keep me out, and keep mother nature in

If God were here he’d tell it to your face, Man, you’re some kind of sinner

Signs, by Five Man Electrical Band

Is trespass without threat an act of aggression that justifies defensive force?

No

Has a trespasser consented to force being used against him?

Maybe

Does a right to forceful eviction depend on local laws and customs?

Yes

Is forceful eviction consistent with the non-aggression principle?

The right to use force to exclude or evict people from a certain area of land is not an a priori “natural” right

However, forceful eviction is necessary (with proportionality and due process) to avoid adverse use of many types of property, which is essential to settlement and production

A right to forceful eviction is a valid legal construct in societies with broad consensus for property rights.

Establishing a Right To Forceful Eviction

Homesteading

“Mix labor with the land”

A nice idea, but impractical

Takes time to “mix” labor with a large area of land

Excludes potential for natural preservation

Can justify an initial claim after the fact

First Claim

“I claim this chest in the name of Spain”

Necessary, but insufficient

Dennis Hope has claimed the Moon and sold off claims to others.

Some combination of claim, survey, and declaration of intent for use may be sufficient to validate a claim (i.e. mining claims).

But none of this matters…

Seizure

“All your base are belong to us”

No existing land title has been established primarily by homesteading

No future land titles (on Earth) will be created by homesteading

All existing land titles have been created by governments who have claimed unused land or seized occupied land.

Are all existing land titles invalid?

NO

Land claims are relative.

Whoever has the earliest provable claim to land has the best claim (Stephan Kinsella)

Privately-owned land has been “removed” from the governments who seized it.

Is “Public Property” invalid?

There is no public property.

“Public Property” is private property that happens to be owned by a government.

The Owner (government) sets rules for access, fees, and allowable uses, no different than private property owners.

Some government-owned property is public space, and some is not.

Like private property, government-owned land titles may be valid if there are no better competing claims

The problem is the ongoing ownership by a government taxing and initiating force.

The government needs to go away, not the land titles.

Why Divest Government Property?

Property ownership forms part of the basis for the state’s power and perceived legitimacy.

Government-owned roads, parks, beaches, etc. are amenities that entice people to support government and taxation. Bread and circuses.

Less justification for eminent domain. Government doesn’t need to take land to build roads if it doesn’t build roads.

Governments collect taxes to build infrastructure, spend taxes blowing up infrastructure in other countries.

Private landownership is the basis for a voluntary society governed by rules of private landowners.

Levels of authority: Landowners’ rules, deed restrictions, social standards, universal morals (NAP)

Municipal police exist largely in part to patrol municipal property. Private security becomes much more viable and logical without government property.

Property divestiture to public forms of ownership (i.e. voucher privatization) could be a windfall endowment to the poor.

How should government property be divested?

Abandonment (to be re-homesteaded)

Only valid for unused land

Restitution to taxpayers (Hoppe)

What’s so special about taxpayers?

What about government’s other victims?

Arbitrary allocation

Politically impossible – giving more property to the rich

Seizure by revolutionaries

In the absence of a valid competing land claim, forceful taking would create an invalid title. Subject to invalidation in future.

Spin off government departments as private organizations

Highway Department becomes Highway Association / Highway Corporation

Risk of monopoly

Risk of bankruptcy

Who owns the spin-off?

“Opt-in” Trusts

Anyone, anywhere can opt-in to create a share

Preferred shares for people who invest money in improvements

Profits or other benefits for preferred shares

Normal shares can vote but can’t receive profits (Safeguard against losing public use to wealthy cabal)

Preserving Access Rights to Public Space

The purchaser draws boundaries, fences himself in, and says, ‘This is mine; each one by himself, each one for himself.’ Here, then, is a piece of land upon which, henceforth, no one has right to step, save the proprietor and his friends; which can benefit nobody, save the proprietor and his servants.

“Let these multiply, and soon the people … will have nowhere to rest, no place of shelter, no ground to till. They will die of hunger at the proprietor’s door, on the edge of that property which was their birth-right; and the proprietor, watching them die, will exclaim, ‘So perish idlers and vagrants.’” – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Existing public use of government-owned roads, parks, plazas, etc. has been “homesteaded”

Divestiture of public space to private entities should not allow them to restrict access

Reasonable access restrictions, consistent with existing restrictions

Traffic laws

Fees for use

Hours of operation

Behavioral / safety restrictions

Means of Enforcing Public Access

Public Ownership

Opt-in Trust – Public can join as owners and vote shares to maintain public access

Public access could be removed with broad consensus

Trust Ownership

Declaration of Trust could define purpose of land ownership trust as preserving public space.

Limit powers of trust to remove land from public access

Deed Covenants

Before divesting, governments could establish deed covenants and easements that define public access rights, responsibilities, and restrictions

Summary of Private Ownership of Public Space

Existing land titles not in dispute should be respected

Government property should be divested to private ownership

Public forms of private ownership (i.e. Opt-in Trusts) may be most viable

Public access to existing government property should be preserved by legal right

Post-State Cities

Public space freed from the tragedy of the commons

Private ownership can bring market efficiency, value discovery, and accountability to public space

Enhancement of green spaces and urban plazas

Reduction of road congestion and traffic accidents

Provision of appropriate parking

Efficacy of mass transit

Mitigation of unsustainable sprawl

With or without a state, the thoughtful divestiture of state property to private owners could enrich our cities and towns with a flourishing of public space.

Free State Project | Liberty in Our Lifetime

Porcfest – The Porcupine Freedom Festival

Adra Architecture – Tim’s new Architecture Firm

Dale Brown (Detroit Threat Management Center) on The Tom Woods Show

School Sucks Project

Steve Patterson on Quantum Mechanics (Soon to be corrected)

Signs – Five Man Electrical Band

I Claim This Chest in the Name of Spain!

Dennis Hope – Selling the Moon

Stephan Kinsella – Land Claims are Relative

Hoppe – Divest to the Taxpayers – Near the end of the article. See also the Kinsella link above for a reference to Hoppe’s position.

Use hashtag #ana013 to reference this episode in a tweet, post, or comment

Tim and Joe review Anarchitecture’s interview with Patrik Schumacher, Director of Zaha Hadid Architects (Episode #ana011), to clarify and highlight key points. We elaborate on topics including historical architectural styles, computer-generated design, parametric urbanism, and the challenges of promoting radical ideas.

View full show notes at anarchitecturepodcast.com/ana012.

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"I’m not withdrawing anything of what I’ve been saying. However, one needs to be aware of how one says it, how one mediates it, and how one explains that what we’re talking about is precisely aiming for the same fundamental hopes and ideals of a free and prosperous, emancipated and pleasant human condition."

Historical styles of architecture

Alberti’s architectural theory as the start of the discourse of architecture

Fordism, modernism, and progressivism

Post-Fordist network society

Post-modernism

Deconstructivism

Parametricism – complexity and order

Frank Gehry and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Computer-generated design and input parameters

Parametric curves – multiple Y values for a given X value

Too many parameters can over-calibrate predictive models, but could be an advantage in architectural design.

Fractal design

Parametric Urbanism

Garbage spill urbanism

Urban harmony through Parametricism

Perceiving more complex types of order

I guess you’re not ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.

Van Halen requires preconditioning.

Path-dependence

The challenges of promoting parametricism and libertarianism / anarcho-capitalism

A messiah event

Long-term one on one conversations

Shock value

Crisis as catalyst

Market-based solutions are necessary, and may be sufficient

Transitioning to a stateless society requires three things:

Episodes in this series on Patrik Schumacher:

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana009: Patrik Schumacher (1 of 4) | Introduction and Housing Controversy – An introduction to Patrik, and Tim’s blog post about Patrik’s controversial housing presentation

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana010: Patrik Schumacher (2 of 4) | Media Maelstrom – Tim and Joe’s critique of media responses to Patrik’s housing presentation

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana011: Patrik Schumacher (3 of 4) | The Interview – Tim’s interview with Patrik at the Zaha Hadid Design Gallery in London

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana012: Patrik Schumacher (4 of 4) | Post-Interview Commentary – Tim and Joe review and highlight key points from the interview

patrikschumacher.com – Patrik’s publications, interviews, and lectures, including his two-volume book on architectural theory, “The Autopoiesis of Architecture”

The Stages of Capitalism and the Styles of Architecture – Patrik’s analysis of the proper relationships between architecture, politics, and socio-economic conditions

The Historical Pertinence of Parametricism and the Prospect of a Free Market Urban Order, Patrik Schumacher, London 2014 – A comprehensive argument for parametric urbanism. Includes photos of “garbage spill urbanization” and student work demonstrating multi-author parametric urban development

Zaha Hadid Architects 2014 promotional video

Zaha Hadid Architects project archive

Zaha Hadid Design Gallery

Housing for Everyone – Dezeen’s video of Patrik’s controversial presentation at the November 2016 World Architecture Festival

Tim’s blog post: Patrik Schumacher, Anarcho-Capitalist Architect

Back to the Future – Kids may not be ready for this link, but your parents are gonna love it

Use hashtag #ana012 to reference this episode in a tweet, post, or comment

Tim interviews Patrik Schumacher, Director of Zaha Hadid Architects, at the Zaha Hadid Design Gallery in London. Topics include:

Architectural theory

The style of parametricism

Patrik’s journey from Marxism to anarcho-capitalism

Rule-based order through bottom-up convergences

How do we communicate radical ideas, whether architectural or political?

Is there value in shock value?

What is the role and limits of urban planning?

Parametric urbanism

The future of market-based urban order

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So that’s one of the ideas of parametricism, and parametric urbanism, that we, with that new style, and that’s my thesis, should be able to build up new regional and path-dependent cumulative urban identities which are nature-like in a sense, like a multi-species ecology. So this is all premised on a much more market-driven process, and I’m talking about market-based urban order, and I believe that we can develop a sense of urban order without relying on a central plan, on a blueprint, on a designed city.

It can be evolving bottom-up through entrepreneurial interventions calling on architects to develop a multi-species ecology like the jungle or natural environments. There’s nobody who’s designing those. They come out of bottom-up processes of overlaying different species, different systems, different interventions, but with the sensibility of, and the necessity of, inter-articulating and fitting in.

So central planning, no; forms of emergent collective action processes, yes.

What is architectural theory, and why is it important?

Essential ingredient of the discipline of architecture

Alberti (Renaissance) – Drawings and theory separated architecture from tradition-bound building

Theory needs to be updated to an evolving societal context. Styles develop responds to socio-economic eras.

Post-fordist network society requires a new style – Parametricism

What is the style of Parametricism?

Derived from intuitive innovations about reinhabiting the historic city, complex contexts

Computational design techniques

Design tools which keep many form parameters at play and malleable in a process an adaptive coordination of spaces and buildings to each other

Organic, fluid, complex. multi-faced forms. Complexity of many spaces is resolved with curvature to make it more legible.

Is there a right and wrong way to design buildings?

Not right or wrong; more or less advantageous for the socio-economic era.

Modernism went into crisis in the 1970s. Mass-reproduced, sterile blocks and separation through zoning.

Modernism was congenial to Fordist society of mass-production

Post-fordism is based on micro-electronic revolution. Mass-customization, reprogramming, less separation of live/ work, reconfiguration of firms.

More complex, market-driven society. Post-modernism – expressed diversity.

Deconstructivism – contingent juxtapositions, interpenetration of spaces.

Parametricism enables complexity but also delivers order

Garbage-spill urban organization

Parametric urbanism should be able to build up new regional path-dependent cumulative identities

Can evolve bottom up like the beauty and order of a multi-species ecology.

Post-fordist society can lead to much more free-reign for entrepreneurship.

Parametricism could give form and legibility to this.

Politico-economic theory – from Marxism to Libertarianism

Marxist historical materialism – Understand societal process based on economic processes. Comprehensive theory.

Concern about ownership and class relationships being barriers to full participation within the production process

Nirvana fallacy – Marxism lacked a viable alternative to capitalism

After collapse of eastern bloc socialism – shift to Market Socialism, then mainstream social democracy through 90s and 2000s

2008 financial crisis – Shock and challenge to comprehend. No longer found leftist Keynesian explanations credible

Discovered Austrian economics – Tom Woods, Peter Schiff, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard – Prescient about crisis

Attempts to get out of crisis using same policies that caused it has led to stagnation in Europe

How might this be coherent with parametricism?

More ordered built environment

Rule-based, but doesn’t need a top-down uniform hand, just a shared ethos about varied ways of continuing an urban texture

Parametricism could be congenial to a radicalized libertarian form of urban development

Parallel between rule-based, multi-author urban design and libertarian systems of rules based on the non-aggression principle

Bottom-up convergences towards standards, as in industry

One-size-fits-all, top down rules are inflexible

Sciences – certain convincing paradigms become dominant. Concept of architectural style is parallel to paradigms in sciences.

Abstract imperatives – contextual embedding, affiliation, continuities within the context. Many ways one could participate in the building of an overall texture. Buildings maintain their own identity.

Rationality of projects is reflected in success with clients and occupants

Enterpreneurs must have freedom to choose parcels, determine density, program, and unit mix. Architects should be given scope to give this a formal characterization.

Entrepreneurs discover synergies in locating programmatic elements.

Architect gives a formal expression, making it legible, easy to navigate, easy to communicate. No role for a central plan to be anything but a hindrance.

Collective actions – landowner associations, private development of larger parcels

London – Prescribes program categories, residential unit types, room sizes, facade – Takes away architect’s core competency of making the environment speak to users

Central planning was viable when you had a very simple pattern of living with a unified consumption standard. It is not viable with the contemporary fluctuation synergies within dense urban centers.

Severe under-utilization of all land use due to use zoning. Milieu protection rigidifies use zoning.

Sometimes central government gets it right, when they break up rigid local controls in favor of development rights.

Promoting avant-garde architectural theory and radical libertarian theory. How do we communicate radical ideas?

In the 1990’s Parametricism was converting a new generation of young architects. More design repertoire, new tools to build complexity, scripting rather than drawing lines

2008 Financial crisis – Stopped a lot of projects. Interrupted forward looking spirit and background of optimism and development flourish

Political discourse and distraction – Occupy movement, European debt crisis, Arab Spring – Anti-capitalist. Broke the trajectory of parametricism.

People became skeptical. Had to explain socio-economic rationale for parametricism. Wrote books, articles, facebook posts

Parametricism associated with neo-liberalism. Perception of extravagance.

Interested in the end point of a stateless condition. Privatization of all space. Fascinating, radical proposals.

What is the direction of travel? Allow more personal freedom, risk and responsibility; or more state regulation to prevent risks. Route to stagnation.

Europe – State is 50% of GDP. Highly problematic.

Tenacious, one on one discussion for weeks to change peoples’ minds. Ideas need time to be digested and gestate.

Tradition-bound thinking. Some people don’t have a competing theory, they have no theory at all.

Left-Liberal consensus is deeply ingrained, developed since 19th century, pro-socialist

Economics, academics tend to be pro-statist because of career opportunities in government. Decades long inertia of beliefs.

“Political vocabulary is very poor” – anyone not leftist must be right wing, like Steve Bannon. Heightened politicization of breaking “good taste”

“I’m not withdrawing anything I’ve said.”

Libertarian society will have less inequality due to benefits of global markets, less inflated financial markets, also fewer underclass ghettos – “remedy becomes a poison chalice”

When communicating radical ideas (political or architectural), is there value in shock value?

This is not something I seek (in architectural design). I’m not out there to shock.

Stimulating appearance can be positive to express new organizational orders and processes

Decoding and making strange can allow for new ideas

Political ideas – Not consciously provoking for notoriety

Sometimes one can throw in a provocation, but even the Hyde Park proposal is not absolutely out of the question. There is always a tradeoff.

If you want to keep the image of a city static (i.e. historic preservation), that’s not compatible with the most vibrant, dynamic, and prosperous metropolis.

Centralized Urban Planning. In light of the ideas of Mises and Hayek (tacit knowledge, challenges of central economic planning) what is the role of urban planning and what are its limits?

Some form of planning is required for shared infrastructures. Rules for continuous street network, could depend on negotiation between private developments

Transaction costs – would certain collective actions be more efficient?

Gurgaon – traffic system, private bus lines. Problems with sewage and electric (originally provided by local government). Deficiencies, but also a great dynamic.

Trust planning to land-owner associations. Issues with hold-outs and free-riders. Can be pragmatic about this.

Prefer issue-based politics with interested parties rather than a state with a monopoly of violence.

Collective associations may have their own means of “soft” enforcement.

The idea of a central authority with universal competency is only one model, and is relatively new. Mocked up in other countries in name, but function differently.

Central planning – No; Emergent collective action processes – Yes.

What forms can parametricism take in the built environment? What are the tools to inject it into urban design?

A patchwork. Architects working on individual sites could respond to shared infrastructure (i.e. a monorail) with different adaptations.

Colleagues within the discourse of architecture watching, admiring, and criticizing each other is a force for organic coherence with diversity.

Public space as private ventures is fascinating. Current public space is a bleak sameness. There are multiple publics looking for different types of spaces. They emerge bottom-up.

There are various ways of generating revenues for privately-owned public space.

You wouldn’t want bars and pubs and clubs that were all state-provided where they’re all required to be safe for three-year-olds. Catering to the lowest common denominator is not an improvement on a city.

Are you optimistic about the future for a market-based urban order?

It’s mixed. The state expands in some areas and shrinks in others. Overall government taking of GDP has increased, which is worrisome.

Thatcher is fascinating. Instincts, Hayek, and courage.

We may need a deepening of a crisis before libertarian leadership can emerge. Perhaps Scotland going independent and demonstrating the disaster of socialism over 5-10 years.

Maybe then libertarian voices would have to be heard. Leftist voices would be covered in shame.

Thatcher was a beacon, inspiring neo-liberal transformations around the world. We need a signal like this. It will happen in my lifetime!

Episodes in this series on Patrik Schumacher:

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana009: Patrik Schumacher (1 of 4) | Introduction and Housing Controversy – An introduction to Patrik, and Tim’s blog post about Patrik’s controversial housing presentation

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana010: Patrik Schumacher (2 of 4) | Media Maelstrom – Tim and Joe’s critique of media responses to Patrik’s housing presentation

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana011: Patrik Schumacher (3 of 4) | The Interview – Tim’s interview with Patrik at the Zaha Hadid Design Gallery in London

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana012: Patrik Schumacher (4 of 4) | Post-Interview Commentary – Tim and Joe review and highlight key points from the interview

patrikschumacher.com – Patrik’s publications, interviews, and lectures, including his two-volume book on architectural theory, “The Autopoiesis of Architecture”

The Stages of Capitalism and the Styles of Architecture – Patrik’s analysis of the proper relationships between architecture, politics, and socio-economic conditions

The Historical Pertinence of Parametricism and the Prospect of a Free Market Urban Order, Patrik Schumacher, London 2014 – A comprehensive argument for parametric urbanism. Includes photos of “garbage spill urbanization” and student work demonstrating multi-author parametric urban development

Zaha Hadid Architects 2014 promotional video

Zaha Hadid Architects project archive

Zaha Hadid Design Gallery

Housing for Everyone – Dezeen’s video of Patrik’s controversial presentation at the November 2016 World Architecture Festival

Tim’s blog post: Patrik Schumacher, Anarcho-Capitalist Architect

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The second of four episodes in our series about Patrik Schumacher, Director of Zaha Hadid Architects. Tim and Joe review and critique the media responses to Patrik’s controversial presentation about housing at the World Architecture Festival in November 2016.

Two of these articles, by the Guardian’s Oliver Wainwright and architectural writer Phineas Harper, are presented for extended criticism.

We had a little too much fun with this one.

Topics include:

Responses from London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Zaha Hadid Architects, protestors, and supporters (sort of)

Extended critique of Oliver Wainwright’s article in The Guardian:

Did Zaha Hadid “dismiss” Patrik’s theoretical work in parametricism?

Gurgaon – a mostly private city in India

Are “thought experiments” valid and meaningful?

The housing crisis can be explained in three words: Great Crested Newts

Noam Chomsky on anarcho-capitalism

A new off-Broadway play, “Syndicalism in One Act”

Extended critique of Phineas Harper’s article in Dezeen:

What social justice warriors and the alt-right have in common

Government solutions are the simple solutions. Market solutions require more complex thinking.

Child labor

Poverty and welfare

Neoliberalism, Thatcherism, and Hayek-ianism

Adam Smith was NOT the godfather of the free market. More like the weird uncle.

The intern architect who predicted the 2008 financial crisis

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Media Maelstrom

How have Patrik’s libertarian ideas been perceived and communicated in the mainstream media?

Arch Daily chose not to cover the speech because of boos. Boo-hoo.

London Evening Standard – response from Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

Did Patrik say anything about diversity?

Is evicting tenants at the end of a lease term “social cleansing?”

City center affordability through new forms of co-housing

Replace social housing subsidies with cash handouts

Building more housing with minimum space standards does not create more affordable housing.

Zaha Hadid Architects press release

Irrelevant virtue signaling

Was this a smart response?

Press release was not approved by directors

Protestors  – The fascist (who wants to get rid of government)

Supportive articles – guarded responses

Comprehensive article, but not unbiased journalism

Parametric tuxedo

The Trump of architecture – says who?

Facebook rants

A conspiracy theorist

Patrik’s political views are separate from the practice

Patrik has only “unleashed” his views following Zaha Hadid’s death – a despicable argument

Patrik has published articles expressing these views since 2012.

Did Zaha Hadid “dismiss” Patrik’s theoretical work in parametricism?

W magazine article – history of busting his chops

“Parametricism” has been part of the branding and messaging of Zaha Hadid Architects.

The Guardian’s Architecture and Design Critic has used “parametric” to describe Zaha Hadid’s work.

The well has been poisoned, time to march out the libertarians

Tom Woods, Peter Schiff, David Stockman

Three claps for mentioning libertarians

Fundamental faith in the market – oversimplification

Anarcho-capitalism can not solve everything

The nirvana fallacy

Private solutions – Pocket living, The Collective, eliminating space standards, AirBnb, Liberland, free private cities

Gurgaon – a mostly private city in India

Gurgaon has not solved inequality in India. Fail.

Inequality is not the best metric to use. Look at economic progress for the poor instead.

Environmental damage

Sewage treatment was supposed to be provided by a local governmental agency and they failed to provide it.

Merely “thought experiments”

Valid hypotheses about possible future opportunities

Zaha Hadid was a “paper architect” for years before a building commission. Were these designs “merely” thought experiments?

Is Patrik uncertain of what he’s saying?

“Post-truth” – is Patrik appealing to emotion?

600,000 plots of land with planning permission.

Land-banking

Is this a symptom of a property bubble?

The housing crisis can be explained in three words: Great Crested Newts

Permitted housing land is worth 300x the value of agricultural land.

“Getting planning permission isn’t the issue” – really?

Builders hoarding land to keep home prices high – really?

Housing supply is up 52% over three years.

“Implementable planning consent” and “conditions”

Shortages of labor and material

Pre-commencement conditions

Planning permission is not implementable planning consent

Examples of pre-commencement conditions holding up construction of “permitted” housing units:

Playground details

Services by other vendors

Documentation not under purview of planning department

Full details of solar panels, utility boxes, windows and doors, electric car charging ports

Locations of public art

Bat boxes

Great Crested Newts

Number of permits granted is not evidence of a simple permitting process

Permitting process can take 5 years

Small homebuilders in UK have decreased from 9000 to 3000

Large foreign builders don’t have necessary local connections to enter market

If Oliver Wainwright wants buildable land to get cheaper, he should want MORE land speculators to flood the market with land they’ve permitted

Noam Chomsky on anarcho-capitalism

Syndicalism in One Act

Employers advance wages to employees ahead of revenues

Two people contracting for employment is a “sick joke” – really?

Are negotiations between unequal parties invalid?

Chomsky agrees with anarcho-capitalists on a whole range of issues

Chomsky: “The burden of proof is always on those who argue that authority and domination are necessary.”

Tolerance is bad – really?

Herbert Marcuse – “Repressive Tolerance”

What do social justice warriors and the alt-right have in common?

Shutting down discussion may be justifiable, but is not productive

“Total faith in the market to solve all conceivable problems” – Nirvana fallacy

Hayekian economics distorted to grotesque absurdity – ignores 150 year school of thought

Hayek – a dog-whistle to anti-capitalists

Margaret Thatcher – some good and some bad

If you want nuance, give him more time to talk

Patrik is not responsible for Joe’s ignorance

Katie Hopkins

If you’re not talking about government solutions, you’re not talking about solutions at all.

Child labor

The best time to start working is when you’re a teenager

A fantasy that complex problems have simple solutions.

Government solutions are the simple solutions. Market solutions require more complex thinking.

Poverty and welfare

Redistributive welfare payments have not solved poverty

Grit

A freer market would create more opportunities for everyone

Charity can be voluntary

Government gives people a false sense of charity

Markets make things cheaper (like Walmart)

Neoliberalism

Associated with Thatcherism

Associated with government interventions supporting businesses. This is not libertarianism.

“A fawning architectural press” – really? I mean, really?!

Press has attacked Zaha Hadid Architects in the past.

Phineas Harper on Ben Clark on Adam Smith

Appeal to authority – Ben Clark’s “Light Bulb” award

Appeal to authority inside an appeal to authority

Adam Smith was NOT the godfather of the free market

Murray Rothbard’s critique of Adam Smith

Perhaps Ben Clark is economically illiterate

Owen Hatherly on unconstrained developers

Appeal to authority

A self-professed communist. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Retail parks, car parks, and shopping malls aren’t public spaces?

What’s wrong with a prepackaged, spoon-fed suburban lifestyle?

Many developments do incorporate green space and public amenities

“Given nearly unlimited space” not a realistic scenario

Markets can never make mistakes? Not true.

Markets have natural feedback mechanisms to correct mistakes

Widespread market failure is usually due to governmental interference in self-correcting markets

2008 financial crisis resulted from governmental policies instigating, exacerbating, and prolonging market imbalances

The intern architect who predicted the 2008 financial crisis

Schumacher is ADAMANT! …yet uncertain?

We all share the same end goal of providing housing for everyone, but disagree on the means of achieving that end.

Outro: Winstnoam Churchomsky Goes to the Mall

Episodes in this series on Patrik Schumacher:

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana009: Patrik Schumacher (1 of 4) | Introduction and Housing Controversy – An introduction to Patrik, and Tim’s blog post about Patrik’s controversial housing presentation

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana010: Patrik Schumacher (2 of 4) | Media Maelstrom – Tim and Joe’s critique of media responses to Patrik’s housing presentation

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana011: Patrik Schumacher (3 of 4) | The Interview – Tim’s interview with Patrik at the Zaha Hadid Design Gallery in London

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana012: Patrik Schumacher (4 of 4) | Post-Interview Commentary – Tim and Joe review and highlight key points from the interview

Housing for Everyone – Dezeen’s video of Patrik’s controversial presentation at the November 2016 World Architecture Festival

Media Responses:

Guardian Article: “Zaha Hadid’s successor: scrap art schools, privatise cities and bin social housing” by Oliver Wainwright, November 24, 2016

“It is time to stop listening to Patrik Schumacher” by Phineas Harper, published in Dezeen, November 28, 2016

Top architect blasts ‘free-riding’ tenants living in council houses in central London and says they should be moved, to make way for HIS staff, London Evening Standard, November 25, 2016. Includes comments by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.

Zaha Hadid Architects Responds to Patrik Schumacher’s “Urban Policy Manifesto” by ArchDaily, November 29, 2016 (after realizing that this WAS a position that the wider architectural profession was interested in giving publicity to). Zaha Hadid Architect’s press release distancing themselves from Patrik’s manifesto.

LEAKED: Extraordinary Schumacher email reveals ZHA fracture by Richard Waite in Architect’s Journal, January 5, 2017. Patrik’s leaked email stating that the ZHA letter was not approved by the firm’s directors.

Dezeen Reader Comments, November 22, 2016. One commenter notes “This is Trumpism essentially – for architecture.” This may have been the basis of Wainwright’s “The Trump of Architecture” moniker.

Class War protesters. NSFW.

Somewhat supportive articles:

Patrik Schumacher has provided a necessary challenge to housing by Paul Finch in the Architect’s Journal, November 22, 2016. Balanced critique.

We need more Schumachers prepared to shake up consensus thinking by Austin Williams in Dezeen, December 1, 2016. Argues against censoring Patrik.

Patrik Schumacher is right to oppose regulations, says architect-turned-developer Roger Zogolovitch by Amy Frearson in Dezeen, November 29, 2016. Sympathizes with suggestions to reform planning standards.

How Patrik Schumacher Will Keep Zaha Hadid’s Name On Top by Fred A. Bernstein in W magazine, November 3, 2016. Excellent article, published a month before Patrik’s WAF housing presentation, about Patrik’s history with Zaha Hadid and vision for Zaha Hadid Architects under his leadership. Referenced by Oliver Wainwright to suggest Zaha “dismissed” Patrik’s work in architectural theory, specifically parametricism.

Zaha Hadid did not dismiss parametricism, according to… Oliver Wainwright:

Zaha Hadid: creator of ambitious wonders – and a fair share of blundersby Oliver Wainwright in the Guardian, March 31, 2016. Describes Zaha as “Creator of an entire “parametric” universe beyond buildings”

Zaha Hadid beyond buildings: architect launches new design gallery by Oliver Wainwright in the Guardian, May 23, 2013. Describes gallery exhibits as parametric: “Everything is taut and rippling, squeezed and clenched, like it’s spent too long working out in the parametric gym.”

Zaha Hadid Architects 2014 promotional video – Uses the term “parametricism” to describe ZHA’s work and argues for it’s relevance to contemporary society, consistent with Patrik’s theoretical work.

Land Banking:

Revealed: housebuilders sitting on 600,000 plots of land by Graham Ruddick in the Guardian, December 30, 2015.

Britain has enough land to solve the housing crisis – it’s just being hoarded by Oliver Wainwright in The Guardian, January 31, 2017

Land banking: what’s the story? (part 1) by Pete Jefferys at Shelter.org, December 14, 2016. Includes a reader comment by planner Helen Howie noting 5 years to achieve implementable planning consent.

New home planning ‘permissions’ up – but system remains a constraint by the Home Builders Federation, January 3, 2017

Pre-Commencement Conditions – White paper by the Home Builders Federation

Remove barriers and SMEs could deliver 25k more homes a year by the Home Builders Federation, January 15, 2017. Analyzes decline of small and medium home builders (80% decline over the past 25 years)

Noam Chomsky on Anarcho-Capitalism

Herbert Marcuse, the godfather of modern identity politics at Fee.org. Note, Marcuse’s relationship to Nazi propagandist Martin Heidegger should not be construed to imply that Marcuse (who was Jewish), was a Nazi sympathizer. But the collectivism of modern identity politics, whether in the form of social justice or the alt-right, shares a common root with the collectivist dogma that was central to Nazism. Marcuse was influential in propagating this collectivist thought into its modern form.

Wolfson Economics Prize 2017; Topic: WHO WILL BUILD THE ROADS???

Ben Clark’s 2014 “Light Bulb” Prize

Owen Hatherly in Wikipedia. Why not try communism?

The Tom Woods Show Ep. 756 Was Margaret Thatcher a Libertarian Hero?

The Adam Smith Myth by Murray Rothbard

2008 Financial Crisis:

Explaining the Economy to Dad – Tim’s November 2008 analysis of the financial crisis two months after the crash, describing how he anticipated and avoided it with his own investments.

The Big Short – Entertaining Oscar-nominated film about the 2008 financial crisis, based on the book by Michael Lewis.

Meltdown by Tom Woods – Austrian explanation for the 2008 financial crisis

The Great Deformation by David Stockman – Explanation for the 2008 financial crisis

patrikschumacher.com – Patrik’s publications, interviews, and lectures, including his two-volume book on architectural theory, “The Autopoiesis of Architecture”

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This is the first in a series of four episodes about Patrik Schumacher, Director of Zaha Hadid Architects, one of the world’s premier architecture firms. Patrik is also an author, professor, lecturer, and architectural theorist.

In November 2016, Patrik gave a presentation at the World Architecture Festival promoting libertarian and even anarcho-capitalist solutions to London’s housing crisis. In the midst of the media maelstrom that followed, Tim wrote a blog post, presented in this episode, that defined anarcho-capitalism and defended Patrik’s proposals.

Then things got interesting…

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Only Mom can tell us apart.

Dame Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid Architects

“Housing for Everyone” – Patrik’s controversial presentation at the November 2016 World Architecture Festival

Guardian article

The Stages of Capitalism and the Styles of Architecture

Anarchitecture’s blog post defending Patrik

Zaha Hadid Design Gallery

Interviewing Patrik

Salon discussion of politics and architecture

Patrik’s architectural theory: The Autopoeisis of Architecture

The style of Parametricism

Tim’s blog post: Patrik Schumacher, Anarcho-Capitalist Architect

Episodes in this series on Patrik Schumacher:

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana009: Patrik Schumacher (1 of 4) | Introduction and Housing Controversy – An introduction to Patrik, and Tim’s blog post about Patrik’s controversial housing presentation

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana010: Patrik Schumacher (2 of 4) | Media Maelstrom – Tim and Joe’s critique of media responses to Patrik’s housing presentation

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana011: Patrik Schumacher (3 of 4) | The Interview – Tim’s interview with Patrik at the Zaha Hadid Design Gallery in London

Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana012: Patrik Schumacher (4 of 4) | Post-Interview Commentary – Tim and Joe review and highlight key points from the interview

Zaha Hadid Architects 2014 promotional video

Zaha Hadid Architects project archive

Zaha Hadid Design Gallery

Housing for Everyone – Dezeen’s video of Patrik’s controversial presentation at the November 2016 World Architecture Festival

Guardian Article: “Zaha Hadid’s successor: scrap art schools, privatise cities and bin social housing” by Oliver Wainwright, November 24, 2016

patrikschumacher.com – Patrik’s publications, interviews, and lectures, including his two-volume book on architectural theory, “The Autopoiesis of Architecture”

The Stages of Capitalism and the Styles of Architecture – Patrik’s analysis of the proper relationships between architecture, politics, and socio-economic conditions

Tim’s blog post: Patrik Schumacher, Anarcho-Capitalist Architect

Twins – “I’m not sure what the problem is, but I’m sure it can be resolved without resorting to violence!”

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