Michael Kubo: LunchMEAT

Independent writer, editor and publisher Michael Kubo shared his work with Utile in March. As the founding editorial director of Actar Publishers, New York, Michael’s publications include The Function of Ornament, with Farshid Mousavi (2006), Desert America: Territory of Paradox (2006), Seattle Public Library (2004), Phylogenesis: FOA’s Ark (2003), and The Yokohama Project (2002). Michael’s work challenges the typical conception of publications as tools for presenting research, and proposes that they can act as forms of research in themselves. In a lecture titled “Publishing as Practice,” Michael presented a series of recent research-driven publications to illustrate ways of using the book to give shape, structure and context to architectural ideas, independent of and sometimes beyond the constraints of building.

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