Contents
List of Figures xi
Contributor Biographies xvii
List of Abbreviations xxiii
Acknowledgements xxv
Part 1: Modes of Hiding: Veiled Devices Beyond the Gaze 31
Interlude 1: Verdures: Mimicry and Camouflage 33
François Sabourin and Bertrand Rougier
Interviewed by Ryan Stec and Pallavi Swaranjali
1. Camouflage After the Bauhaus: Oskar Schlemmer, László Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes
Jodi La Coe and Marcia Feuerstein 42
2. Walls and Hidden Forms of Walling: The Production of Spatial Violence in Beirut
Jenan Ghazal 55
3. Hiding, Veiling and Transversing: Nubian Madyafa Post-Displacement 66
Menna Agha
4. From Concealed Caves to Dis(Cover)ed Bunkers: Gaetano Pesce’s Pre-/Post-Historical Atomic Shelter 75
Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou
5. Concealed Behind Transparencies: A Closer Look at Architecture’s Hidden Performativity Through the Barcelona Pavilion 87
Ramon Rispoli
6. Happy Schools: The Visible and Invisible in the Sven Lokrantz School and the Architecture of Special Education 98
Dora Vanette
Interlude 2: Deformative, Yet Silent 109
Samira Daneshvar
Interviewed by Pallavi Swaranjali
Part 2: Motives of Hiding: Disguised Narratives 117
Interlude 3: Avert 119
Heather Leier
Interviewed by Ryan Stec and Pallavi Swaranjali
7. Hiding in Plain Sight: The White House Solarium and the Projection of History 127
Eliyahu Keller
8. Urban Alibi and Its Terms of Concealment: Cases From Shanghai 140
Ying Zhou
9. Hiding Behind Colonial Roots: Investigating the Reconstruction of the Palestinian Presidential Headquarters (the Muqata’a) in Ramallah 153
Anwar Jaber
10. [Hidden Architecture]: The Paracontextual in Superstudio’s Project of Instrumentalizable Muteness 165
Ashley Mason
11. Architects’ Hidden Building Signatures 176
Paul Emmons
12. Clutter, Tidying and Architectural Desires 188
Rebecca Williamson
Interlude 4: Hidden Relics 200
Claudio Sgarbi
Interviewed by Ryan Stec and Pallavi Swaranjali
Part 3: Concealed Apparatus: Latencies and Potentialities in Material Realities 209
Interlude 5: Yellow + Blue: An Apparatus for Fabricating Illusionary Architecture 211
Zenovia Toloudi
Interviewed by Pallavi Swaranjali
13. Hiding in the Wings: A Culture of the Onlooker in Eighteenth-Century France 220
Louise Pelletier
14. Principles of Masking: Wall Paintings by Thomas Schütte and Ludger Gerdes, Circa 1977 231
Stefaan Vervoort
15. Concealment, Costume and Modern Architecture 243
Teminioluwa Thomas
16. Architecture, Infrastructure and Occlusion in Miami: The Network Access Point of the Americas 257
Jeffrey Kruth and Allison Schifani
17. Drawn Lines Conceal Multitudes: The Hidden Traces of Time in Carlo Scarpa’s Drawn Factures for the Brion Memorial 269
Kristin Washco
18. Impossible Gag: Clues to a Hidden Reality in Winsor McCay’s and Buster Keaton’s Representations of Dreams 280
Linda Heinrich
Interlude 6: A New Approach to Hidden History: The Reconstruction of History Through Nodal Spaces in the Ghost City of Lifta 293
Hala Barakat
Interviewed by Ryan Stec and Pallavi Swaranjali
Coda: The Architecture of Hiddenness: Latency and Virtuality in the Topology of Concealment 301
Don Kunze
Index 309