Session 1

Jonathan Meades text on Zaha, and Alain Badiou's text 'This Crisis is the Spectacle, Where is the Real?' are both easily downloadable for free. Juxtaposing them is a good way to start and that's how we begin the first session. Make sure you read both texts before the first session and write your first blog after the first session.
I was thinking of dropping Meades, but since the publication of Museum Without Walls (his collection on architecture) to considerable acclaim only very recently, we are going to look at him carefully some more.