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César Reyes Nájera
@cerreyes.bsky.social
Making great and sometimes impossible books happen! Postdoctoral researcher on Urban Regeneration at University of Luxembourg. Co-founder of https://dpr-barcelona.com/ | lux + bcn
Ecolonisation

#concept
September 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
There is still hope: Libraries exist!

#BooksAreLouderThnaBombs
"All these many years into my life as a library card holder, I still walk into mine and think: I can take any of these books home with me? For FREE? Everyone should be talking about this!”
- Melissa Albert, author

#ReasonstoLoveLibraries
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June 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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«Books to reinforce the importance of these threshold locations where private shades into public, and “I” becomes “we.”»
We curated a library for the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale!

The books featured in "PORCH: A Library" examine the commitments of people to one another and the planet, exemplifying the porch as a shelter for democratic encounter.

Read our curatorial statement & browse the books:
PORCH: A Library, at the Venice Architecture Biennale
Curated by Places, for the U.S. Pavilion
placesjournal.org
May 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM
"Citationality is another form of academic relationality. White men is reproduced as a citational relational. White men cite other white men: it is what they have always done; it is what they will do; what they teach each other to do when they teach each other. "

Sara Ahmed, White Men (2014)
April 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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When The Esch Clinics (Cultures of Assembly with @cerreyes.bsky.social, Markus Miessen) meets @care-xyz.bsky.social

Building upon our ongoing research “Building Pleasures” were enjoying getting to know Esch through new lenses—also participating at the Seminar on Gender and Urbanism.
March 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
💚📚✨🌱
^ Ten years after writing the text 'Alchemy of the Classroom,' along with @cerreyes.bsky.social for Volume, it's worth to look back and to revisit it, to discover what has changed and which challenges are still there when talking about new, urgent, radical pedagogies in architecture.
Alchemy of the Classroom - Archis
The 2013 film The Competition follows an employee from Jean Nouvel office, a ‘head of projects’, navigating his level on the pyramidal scheme of organizing conventional contemporary architecture offic...
archis.org
March 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Career goals 🙋🏽‍♂️✨📚❤️
I’ve been working closely with a library org this year. Today the ED asked about my career goals. I said: “My goal is to do cool, fulfilling projects w/ interesting ppl; in collaboration w/ generally honorable + benevolent institutions + organizations, in a city that provides continual inspiration.”
February 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Presidents are temporary,
Books are forever!✊🏽📚

Yeeeesss... quiero la miaaaa! ✨🥰🪩
The new beginning of the semester deserves a new t-shirt, this one more than pertinent to the current political climate.

In which @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social mirrors the fantastic 'Presidents are Temporary: Wu-Tang is Forever’, a mash-up by our dear partner in crime @cerreyes.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This 👇🏽✨✨✨
For a half century, film has been relying on the idea that government is pure evil as a plot point. And then pseudointellectuals wonder why people elect politicians who promise to undo the social compact.
January 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Absolutely loving this way of reading the city: collecting traces, memories, conversations, to find patterns that unveil the hidden structures supporting the visible part of the system.

Thanks Caroline Genz for coming to "Cultures of Assembly"!

#COA #MArch #UniLu #Infrastructuring #Assemblies
January 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Axiom: After pressing the 'print the book' button, the cleverest typos come out of hiding!

#PrintedMatterMatters
#TheSmellOfBooks
#MakingBooks
January 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Books books books! Each season, we publish roundups of reviews of recent books on architecture, landscape & cities that catch our eyes and the eyes of our contributing critics. It's our take on titles worth your attention in the vast world of publishing today.

Our latest edition of Bookshelf:
Bookshelf: Fall 2024
A seasonal roundup of book reviews on buildings, landscapes, and cities, featuring titles of interest to Places editors and contributing critics.
placesjournal.org
December 23, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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We're cohosting an event this Saturday w/ the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia University! Join us for a day-long colloquium focused on repair in architecture + planning education. How can we accelerate academia’s adaptation to the new exigencies of our planet?

Free and open to the public:
Fitch Colloquium: Repairing Architecture Schools - Columbia GSAPP
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
www.arch.columbia.edu
December 4, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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Hello Bluesky peeps! For those of you looking for scholarship and design on architecture and the built, imagined and destroyed environment - the Journal of Architectural Education is here! Give us a follow - good things coming at this space!

@thejaeonline.bsky.social
www.jaeonline.org
December 4, 2024 at 10:44 PM
'There is a kind of love called maintenance' says Ursula Ashkam Fanthorpe, and @placesjournal.bsky.social shows this love can take different forms 👇🏽✨
We're publishing brief observations on repair from dozens of leading public scholars, practitioners, and thinkers (with yet more to come!). Check out "Field Notes: Repair" on our website: placesjournal.org/series/field-notes-repair/.
November 24, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Bon dia M U N D O !

¿Te acordás de lo que te acordaste por primera vez?

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Do you remember what you remembered for the first time?
November 17, 2024 at 6:31 AM