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1 Alois Riegl, “The Modern Cult of Monuments: Its Character and its Origin,” trans. Forster and Ghirardo, Oppositions 25 ([1903] Fall 1982): §1.
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David Gissen
David Gissen is a historian, theorist, critic, and curator of architecture and urbanism. Recent work of his focuses on developing a novel concept of nature in architectural thought and experimental forms of architectural historical practice. Gissen is author of Manhattan Atmospheres: Architecture, The Interior Environment and Urban Crisis (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) and Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009), and editor of the “Territory” issue of AD Journal (2010) and the book Big and Green (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003).