George Kafka
georgekafka0@gmail.com
@gkafka
Writing
I regularly write reviews, features, profiles and interviews, typically on the social, political and environmental consequences of architecture and design.
2024
–> The Call (e-flux Criticism)
A review of Holly Herndon + Mat Dryhurst at the Serpentine
–> Life Lesson (The Architectural Review)
A rammed earth pavilion on the edge of Paris
–> The Value of Unbuilt Buildings (Untapped Journal)
A profile of Dogma
-> Why Did Our Homes Stop Evolving? (Untapped Journal)
An interview with Emanuele Coccia
2023
–> Regeneration Station (The Architectural Review)
Community rooms on the Havelock Estate, Southall
–> 18th Venice Architecture Biennale (e-flux Criticism)
A review of The Laboratory of the Future
–> How Time Shapes Amin Taha’s... (Untapped Journal)
A profile of Groupwork
–> Follow the money: building the museum (The Architectural Review)
A keynote essay on cultural institutions
–> Terms of Address (Disegno)
A feature on ProxyAddress
–> Green Labour (The Architectural Review)
A review of two books about climate and work
2022
–> The Floating University, Berlin (The Architectural Review)
Neither floating or a university
–> How Linked By Air Helped Cooper Hewitt... (Eye on Design)
Digital exhibitions post-Covid
2021
–> The housing that gives hope to refugees (Wellcome Collection)
Housing First for displaced people in Athens
–> That’s How the Light Gets In (Port Magazine)
A profile of Sou Fujimoto
–> Non-Extractive Architecture, Volume 1 (e-flux Criticism)
A book review
–> Are Mockup Designers the Most Influential Designers... (Eye on Design)
Mockups and graphic design online
–> Ten Visionary Ideas for the Future (BBC Culture)
The future of architecture
–> Designer Yannis Karlopoulos’s Work is a Celebration...(Eye on Design)
Greek graphic design and cultural identity
–> Social Housing Should Win Prizes (Tribune)
With Lev Bratishenko
–> How Printed Matter Took Its Art Book Fair Online (Eye on Design)
All the fun of the fair
2020
–> Crowdfunding Downtown (e-flux Architecture)
An interview with FICA, São Paulo
–> How Architecture Transforms the Clubbing Experience (Electronic Beats)
Where the spatial meets the sonic
–> Place of Speech (Disegno)
Casa do Povo, São Paulo
–> AI Has a Real Environmental Impact (Eye on Design)
Graphic design, AI and the climate crisis
–> Paris Exhibition Gives Charlotte Perriand Her Due (Metropolis)
Exhibition review at Fondation Louis Vuitton
–> After the Economic Crisis, Athens’ Tight-knit Zine... (Eye on Design)
New publications emerging in the Greek capital
2019
-> The Burden of Antiquity (Architectural Review)
Archaeology vs architecture in Athens
–> Broadgate and the City of London’s Architecture of Inequality (Frieze)
A documentary about Broadgate
–> This Exhibition Aims to Capture the Diversity of Human Health (Metropolis)
Being Human at the Wellcome Collection
-> Goldsmith Street by Mikhail Riches with Cathy Hawley (Architects’ Journal)
Social housing in Norwich
-> MD2207 (The Avery Review)
Community-led housing in London
–> The Other Mexican Border (Frieze)
Walk the Line at the RIBA
–> In the Heart of a Hospital Campus, a Ruin-Turned-Gathering... (Metropolis)
PC Caritas by Architecten dVVT
–> Gimme Shelter (Blueprint)
How are architects tackling homelessness?
–> A Meeting of Landscape and City (Frieze)
6a’s MK Gallery
–> Money Talks (The Architectural Review)
Foster + Partners’ Bloomberg building
–> Misremembrance of things past (Architects’ Journal)
168 Upper Street by Amin Taha
–> Not a Style, But a Stance (Eye on Design)
#bauhaus in the Age of Social Media
2018
–> Helsinki’s Poetic New Central Library Is a Poetic...(Metropolis)
Oodi by ALA Architects
–> In His Latest Residential Building, OMA’s Reinier de Graaf... (Metropolis)
Cycnicism in Stockholm
–> This Kaleidoscopic Exhibition Explores How Augmented Reality... (Metropolis)
Space Popular at ArkDes
–> Architect Peter Barber Is Reinventing London’s Housing (Metropolis)
A profile of Peter Barber
–> How a DIY Floating University in Berlin Could Be an Unorthodox... (Metropolis)
Floating at Floating
–> Civic Gesture (Blueprint)
Assemble’s Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art
–> A Tay-Side Plot (Disegno)
The V&A Dundee by Kengo Kuma
–> The Story of Sheffield's Park Hill Housing Estate (Frieze)
Love Among the Ruins at S1 Artspace
-> London Becomes Museum (Failed Architecture)
“A culture of commemoration is a cemetery”
–> Tomorrow's Homes, Today (Frieze)
Three exhibitions about homes of the future
–> Brute Instinct (Architect’s Journal)
The renovation of Preston Bus Station
–> The Vluchtmaat (Disegno)
A squat for asylum seekers on the edge of Amsterdam
–> Wot Do U Call It? Urban? (PIN-UP)
An interview with Dan Hancox
–> Access All Areas (Blueprint)
Architecture for diverse sensory needs
–> The 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (Disegno)
Review from the madness
–> This Reconfigurable Tower in Beirut Allows Its... (Metropolis)
Modulofts by Fouad Samara
–> Opening Statement (The Architectural Review)
Teget’s Yapı Kredi Culture Centre in Istanbul
2017
–> Revitalized Musée d’arts de Nantes Aims not for Spectacle... (Metropolis)
Stanton Williams in west France
–> This Must Be a Turning Point (Metropolis)
A post-Grenfell interview with Anna Minton
–> ScareBnb (FACT)
Kode9 and Lawrence Lek at the Notel
–> Could Humans & Plants Co-Create the Post-Industrial Cities... (Metropolis)
Geomerce at BIO25, Ljulbjana
–> The future of pop music? Hollow shells run by algorithms... (WIRED)
Hatsune Miku at the Barbican
2016
–> ‘We don’t need any more grey boxes’ (The Architectural Review)
Klein Dytham profile
–> Welcome Home (Metropolis)
Refugee housing in Germany
–> What We Mean When We Talk About Public Space (Metropolis)
Demopolis exhibition at AdK Berlin
2015
–> Artists and architects unite to imagine creative... (Huck)
Wohnungsfrage exhibition at HKW Berlin
–> From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires (Port)
Horacio Coppola and Grete Stern at MoMA
–> A Weapon in National Defence (uncube)
Constructing Latin America at MoMA
–> Shepard Fairey, Swoon and other top street artists... (Huck)
Mapping the City at Somerset House
2014
–> ZZK Records (Huck)
Digital cumbia in Buenos Aires
–> A Cultural Response To Crisis (Huck)
Eloísa Cartonera publishers in Buenos Aires
–> Aesthetic Vandalism (Huck)
An interview with RRAA.-
–> Colour in the City (Huck)
60 mosaicists on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile
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