Authors/jesse seegers
Jesse Seegers is Associate Editor, Digital Projects at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. He received a Masters of Architecture degree from Princeton University and a Bachelors of Arts from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Previously, he was 2013-2014 Power Corporation of Canada Curatorial Intern
at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, edited AGENDA: Can We Sustain Our Ability to Crisis? (Actar, 2009) at JDS/Julien De Smedt Architects in Brussels and Copenhagen, worked for Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in New York, and Parisian creative strategy and fashion brand Surface to Air Studio.
Agenda: JDS Architects
Can We Sustain Our Ability to Crisis?
Julien De Smedt, Jesse Seegers
AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a collective narrative, personal and subjective. It documents the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The form of the book exploits the double meaning of its title, presenting the absurdities of day-to-day architectural practice while also staking our intent. Rather than a definitive direction, our agenda is a definitive attitude - of eagerness, enthusiasm, and optimism, of criticality and concern, of fun and inquiry. It is a directive, a motivation to act, at times without clear knowledge of where our agenda will lead. "Change," the buzzword of the last U.S. presidential campaign, is the order of the day, and the task of AGENDA is to explore what kind
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