DOMAIN is an architecture and urbanism studio based in Belgrade, Serbia and New York City led by Mitesh Dixit. DOMAIN deliberately works without a manifesto or agenda but insists on a method that explores the very nature of a question. We aim to discover ‘new’ questions, as opposed to recycling existing solutions. Our method of investigation transcends scale. We describe this method as ‘unpacking’ - exposing the multiple layers, the hard & soft, the physical & critical in order to identify new hierarchies or hidden actors. This process demands an intense investigation into the local, an abject surrender to the existing, and the rejection of any singular ‘vision’.

The firm works internationally on projects ranging from graphic design, residential, public buildings, and masterplans. DOMAIN operates within the contemporary art realm and has collaborated with artists such as Wim Wenders (DE), Armin Linke (IT), Vincent de Rijk (NL), Ari Versluis (NL), Antonio Lopez Garcia ES), and Dieter Meier (CH) as well as curators including Chris Dercon (BE), Esther Jung (CH), Ksenija Samardžija (RS), and Julio Vaquero (ES).  Its work has been presented at the Venice Architectural Biennale (2014), Franc Centre Museum in Orleans, France (2014), and MIPIM Conference in Canes, France (2014), The National University of Singapore (2012), the Inaugural Chicago Architectural Biennale (2015), STRAND’s 5th International Conference ‘ON Architecture’ in Belgrade, Serbia (2017), and the exhibition ‘STAYING HERE WITH YOU – moving, at the Bioskop Balkan in Belgrade, Serbia (2019). DOMAIN has been in numerous publications including Domus, Contour, BK, Metropolis, Prostor, and Wallpaper.

In 2019 DOMAIN launched its academic extension The Institute for Architecture which serves as the repositroy of its academic pursuits and research.

"Power: The Spatial and Temporal Landscapes of the Lithium-Ion Battery" at the China Infrastructure Symposium hosted by The China Room at Politecnico di Torino

Employing Territorial Planning, a methodology integrating the techniques of architecture, urbanism, geography, sociology, and landscape architecture, the project maps ‘new’ forms, scales, and terrains, i.e., the operational landscapes of theLIBs. In order to understand the complete political, spatial, and environmental impacts on the production and use of LIBs, the project begins at three extraction sites in Chile, D.R.C., and Indonesia. The project connects the physical and political impacts at each of the critical thresholds in the global supply chain of LIBs. The result of the process reveals the planetary morphologies and total carbon impact of the LIBs supply chain from the point of material extraction, refinement, transportation, manufacturing, and waste. We must develop methods and concepts for a post-carbon world, and this demands that we do not conceive of LIBs simply as a technology to enable a post-carbon lifestyle but as a critical agent in redefining the relations between nations, states, and corporations in search of symbolic and literal power. The research extends these arguments to architecture and landscape by evaluating how design can have a more active and transformative impact on the forces that shape a decarbonized built environment.

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THE SKOPJE PROJECT

The Skopje Project, organized by Prof. Ognen Marin and Prof. Mitesh Dixit, is a three-day event in Skopje, Northern Macedonia from 21-24 October 2020. The conference will be held on the occasion of 70 years anniversary from the foundation of Faculty of Architecture at University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje and 55 years from the adoption of the Kenzo Tange’s plan for reconstruction of Skopje city center.Confirmed speakers are Reiner de Graff of OMA, Sou Fujimoto, Charles Waldheim, Keller Easterling and many more.

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"Power: The Spatial and Temporal Landscapes of the Lithium-Ion Battery" at the Collective Landscape Futures Symposium, Greenwich University

Employing Territorial Planning, a methodology integrating the techniques of architecture, urbanism, geography, sociology, and landscape architecture, the project maps ‘new’ forms, scales, and terrains, i.e., the operational landscapes of theLIBs. In order to understand the complete political, spatial, and environmental impacts on the production and use of LIBs, the project begins at three extraction sites in Chile, D.R.C., and Indonesia. The project connects the physical and political impacts at each of the critical thresholds in the global supply chain of LIBs. The result of the process reveals the planetary morphologies and total carbon impact of the LIBs supply chain from the point of material extraction, refinement, transportation, manufacturing, and waste. We must develop methods and concepts for a post-carbon world, and this demands that we do not conceive of LIBs simply as a technology to enable a post-carbon lifestyle but as a critical agent in redefining the relations between nations, states, and corporations in search of symbolic and literal power. The research extends these arguments to architecture and landscape by evaluating how design can have a more active and transformative impact on the forces that shape a decarbonized built environment.

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Dixit to lecture at the SCAD Museum of Art Theatre

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD Design) Presents Mitesh Dixit, who will deliver the lecture "Transgressive Geographies: Beyond Territory" . Utilizing types of critique, analysis derived from Hermeneutics, traditional architectural techniques, and most critically the collapsing of multiple disciplines into a unified architectural method, Dixit’s lecture will attempt to develop a cohesive understanding of the built environment by broadening the concept of context.  Through a series of projects which operate at multiple scales and mediums, will illustrate how design, geography, political science and philosophy are integrated in order to identify and expose physical, economic, and sociopolitical situations.

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"The Hyperreal: A New Normal for Teaching Post-Covid”. Published in the Serbian Architecture Journal: Lessons from Experience and Perspectives for Education. Vol. 13/3

The pandemic’s redefinition of spatial interface brought with it the need to reconsider our territories of occupation and study the 2d and 3d as our built and unbuilt environment.  The distinctions between physical, digital, actual, and virtual have evolved and blurred, and we must prepare our students for the new dimensions we all occupy and engage in.  Through alternate methods of exploration, investigation, and documentation, we as architects and educators must reconceptualise what constitutes the territory of architecture and use the changes the pandemic has forced upon us to expand our understanding of the architectural landscape and site.  

Through a comparison with Baudrillard’s theory of simulation from his book “Simulacra and Simulation”, this paper describes the evolutionary phases of design instruction during the pandemic.  It describes the teaching techniques utilised to help students comprehend the concept of space, landscape, and territory in a time when the events of the world simultaneously constrained us to our domestic habitations and extended our international reach through data and internet connectivity. The foreground, background and focus of the video conference call is playfully examined; the process of remote site analysis is assessed, and the expansion of architecture into the virtual realm is explored.  The transformative existing and speculative impact of hybrid-reality architecture is revealed and discussed.

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"Productive Nothingness: The Argument Against Growth" Key Note Lecture by Mitesh Dixit at DANI Arhitekure in Podgorica, Montenegro

Dixit’s talk will provide a brief overview of the origins of capitalism, the concept of Enclosure, how growth became an imperative and architecture's complicit role. The

central thesis argues that the only way forward, i.e. stop the continued destruction of the planet - is NOT to grow and expand.

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"Counterfactual Modeling in Historical Reconstruction: El Lissitzky’s Horizontal Skyscraper WB2" - published in TAD 6:1 Histories

Unbuilt historical architecture is preserved by museums and archives, circulated in a variety of media, and studied by a range of design fields, both academic and practical. Its enduring appeal arises from its dual existence as a document of historical actuality and a reservoir of unrealized potential. This duality took on special importance during the first decade of the SovietUnion’s existence. After a protracted civil war between the Bolsheviks and the allied forces of the White Army, building activity had come to a standstill. At the same time, the onset of political stability after1918 allowed the restructuring of former Imperial arts institutions to serve the needs of a new socialist society. The leading role played by the avant-garde in newly reformed institutes like Moscow’s Higher Artistic State and Technical Studios, Vkhutemas, gave rise to a design ethos that combined utopian formalism and political radicalism. The abundantly produced paper architecture of this brief optimistic period has served as an inspiration for subsequent generations of architects, whose efforts enter a symbiotic relationship with the work of historians. These practical and historical currents often draw from the same fund of archival material, yet their aims are distinct. For historians, knowledge of the past is an end in itself; for designers that knowledge can be brought to bear on present-day possibilities.

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"The Big Li: The Spatial Politics of the Lithium Triangle" Key Note Lecture by Mitesh Dixit at the Congress of Sustainable Architecture 2021

Mitesh Dixit to deliver the lecture "The Big Li: The Spatial Politics of the Lithium Triangle" as a keynote for the Congress of Sustainable Architecture 2021 in Belgrade, Serbia. Employing territorial research as a design tool, such as mapping and cartography, to reconceptualize the Lithium Triangle not as a cluster of distinct and individually operated mines in three different countries, but as an operational landscape that is a fluid and interconnected territory, where every action has both an affect and effect, at local and global scales. The ambition of the lecture is to develop a methodology to mitigate the social and environmental impacts of mining within Lithium Triangle.

The Congress will be held from 8th to 10th October 2021 on the exceptional, multi-functional premises of the Yugoslav Film Archive in Belgrade, Serbia. This event will cover important topics with a focus on sustainable and ecological approach to architecture and design, with the use of renewable energy resources. Through recent studies and projects, the participants will get an opportunity to learn more about the latest world trends in architecture, new methods and green technologies, the use and application of all forms of renewable energy sources in architectural design and construction, as well as how to choose appropriate energy-efficient and intelligent systems, non-polluting and recycled materials, products, equipment and appliances, to the ultimate completion of buildings and their maintenance.

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"Transgressive Geographies" Mitesh Dixit to speak at EASA Montenegro 2021

October 8th, 2021 in Podgorica, Montenegro, Mitesh Dixit will deliver his lecture "Transgressive Geographies" at EASA Montenegro 2021 - Burning EASA. Utilizing types of critique, analysis derived from Hermeneutics, traditional architectural techniques, and most critically the collapsing of multiple disciplines into a unified architectural method, Dixit’s lecture will attempt to develop a cohesive understanding of the built environment by broadening the concept of context.  Through a series of projects which operate at multiple scales and mediums, will illustrate how design, geography, political science and philosophy are integrated in order to identify and expose physical, economic, and sociopolitical situations.

EASA Montenegro 2021 problematizes the three-decade status of the ecological state of Montenegro, which will show the critical thinking of the participants through a creative approach that should result in a spatial installation on which they will work from 8 to 10 October at the brownfield site of the former Titex factory

EASA Montenegro is part of the European Architecture Students Assembly, a platform established in 1981 in Liverpool that brings together students from 49 countries to experiment with architecture in a way that standardized academic institutions are unable to provide. Students meet annually, during summer workshops, in different European countries.

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Landscapes of Extraction at the 27th World Congress of Architects – UIA2021RIO

DOMAIN’s Mitesh Dixit will present the project "Landscapes of Extraction' at the 27th World Congress of Architects – UIA2021RIO. Employing critical cartography, the installation will illustrate Switzerland’s dependency of capital, culture, and intellectual production, from the Republic of Serbia. A multi scalar physical map will redefine the terrain between the two as a continuous landscape, more precisely, a territory defined via the extraction of material & immaterial resources. A series of maps, which will challenge the Cartesian certainty of traditional mapping, will illustrate the one-sided exchange between the “two” countries as well as develop new techniques to investigate our material contours in a way that will enable us to re-conceive and question the very nature of how we illustrate and design our built environment.

UIA is the world’s largest Architecture and Urban Planning forum, the 27th World Congress of Architects – UIA2021RIO is designed as a transformative event for architects, triggering shifts in professional paths and new commitments to a better world, with attention paid to the environment and the climate, while striving to lessen intra-urban inequalities.

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The AA Transborder Landscapes Symposium

DOMAIN's Mitesh Dixit to be a Keynote at the Architectural Association's Transborder Landscapes Symposium Thursday, 10 June 2021.

The Transborder Landscapes symposium addresses complex socio-political, climate and territorial questions around the issue of borders worldwide and in the US / Mexico border, through urbanism, landscape, data, geography, planning and architecture frameworks. The symposium includes academics and industry-experts who will present on topics that include Landscape Urbanism in the Americas, Environmental data visualization, academic research on the US/MX border, Architecture of Violence, contested landscape, Tijuana / San Diego border, Reimagine the Tijuana River.

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'The Masterplan' - by Reinier de Graaf

Live Book Talk ‘The Masterplan’ by Reinier de Graaf with Prof. Mitesh Dixit- May 26th 13.00 EST / 19.00CET, as part of the Архитектонски факултетСкопје / Faculty of Architecture, UKIMSpring2021 Dean's Lecture Series.  

The Masterplan is the first novel by architect Reinier de Graaf, the author of the critically acclaimed Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession (Harvard UniversityPress, 2017) – a collection of essays on contemporary architecture praised for its stylistic wit and honest portrayal of architecture’s entanglement in political and economic power structures.

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Counterfactual Modeling in Historical Reconstruction: El Lissitzky’s Horizontal Skyscraper WB2 at SimAUD 2021

Prof. Sam Johnson and Prof. Mitesh Dixit will present “Counterfactual Modeling in Historical Reconstruction: El Lissitzky’s Horizontal Skyscraper WB2” at SimAUD 2021. The lecture describes the results of a contemporary reconstruction of a recently rediscovered design for a horizontal skyscraper by the Russian-Jewish architectEl Lissitzky. The unfinished state of Lissitzky’s three extant drawings and the experimental nature of his building provided the impetus for a collaboration among architects, a historian, and an engineer.

The 12th annual Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD) offers a platform to unite researchers and practitioners in the fields of architecture, urban design, urban planning, building science, and data science. SimAUD 2021 invited submissions across a range of topics related to simulation with a special emphasis on methods that bridge disciplinary gaps between design, construction, operations, resource management, human behavior, and performance analytics across building and urban scales.

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Dixit to Deliver Keynote at 8th Fluid Design Forum in Montenegro

DOMAIN’s Mitesh Dixit will deliver the Keynote address at the 8th Fluid Design Forum in Podgorica, Montenegro. This year’s edition of the FLUID Design Forum will address ethical dilemmas in contemporary design practices. It will analyze how design creates rather than solves problems. The Forum program will review the tactics that designers use ‒ consciously or unconsciously ‒ to provide an alibi for acting contrary to their ethical principles.

We will start this consideration with a straightforward question: are you ashamed of any design you created?

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"Architecture as Territory" Key Note Lecture by Mitesh Dixit at 2020 Strand Conference

DOMAIN's Mitesh Dixit will delivery the Key Note Lecture for the 8th International STRAND Conference "Learning Architecture. Keynote Talks will be at Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Gallery of Science and Technology Belgrade, Serbia.

STRAND -Sustainable Urban Society Association - is a voluntary, non-governmental and non-profit Association, founded in 2005 as Civil partnership. Registered in 2011 as Association to achieve specific goals for the promotion and development of sustainable urban community and living environment.

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Dixit to lecture at IIA NATCON 2020

DOMAIN's Mitesh Dixit will take part at the The IIA National Convention 2020: Transcend is to be held on the 11th & 12th of July 2020. The Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) is the National body of Architects in the country. Established in 1917, the institute today has more than 20,000 members and plays a major role in promoting the profession of architecture by organizing and uniting the Architects of India to promote aesthetic, scientific and practical efficiency of the profession both in Practice and in Education.

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Denniston Hill Porch Conversation with Prof. Dixit

Julie Mehretu, Lawrence Chua, Maxwell Mutanda, Paul Pfeiffer, and Mitesh Dixit in conversation.

Among these initiatives is DH’s Digital PorchConversations—recorded conversations with a broad range of interlocutors that provide a safe space for “difficult” conversations to happen. These dialogues -to be shared on our website and other platforms—are informing our work and thinking . Curating groups of artists, activists and advocates, and intellectuals into conversation and commissioned written responses, Digital Porch Conversations will contribute to an ongoing, collective archive of Denniston Hill. Select, edited conversations will be made available to the general public on Swerve, our online journal of the environmental arts.

Situated in the Southern Catskills on a 200-acre campus, Denniston Hill is an artist-centered interdisciplinary arts organization that fosters an inclusive, practical discourse about the aesthetics, function, ethics, and meaning of contemporary artistic practice. Our work is guided by the principle that creative and critical voices are important in shaping a just, equitable society.

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Dixit to lecture at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design

Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design presents Mitesh Dixit, of DOMAIN Office to deliver his lecture ‘Material Contours’.  Dixit’s lecture will attempt to develop a cohesive understanding of the built environment by broadening the concept of context. Through a series of projects which operate at multiple scales and mediums, will illustrate how design, geography, political science and philosophy are integrated in order to identify and expose physical, economic, and sociopolitical situations. Dixit’s lecture will expose this method of investigation, as Architecture as Territory.

The lecture will take place on Tuesday, June 30th, 2020 at School of Architecture + Design

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Dixit to lecture at University of Montenegro Faculty of Architecture

University of Montenegro Faculty of Architecture in Podgorica presents Mitesh Dixit, of DOMAIN Office to deliver his lecture ‘Material Contours’.  Dixit’s lecture will attempt to develop a cohesive understanding of the built environment by broadening the concept of context. Through a series of projects which operate at multiple scales and mediums, will illustrate how design, geography, political science and philosophy are integrated in order to identify and expose physical, economic, and sociopolitical situations. Dixit’s lecture will expose this method of investigation, as Architecture as Territory.

The lecture will take place on Monday, December 23rd, 2019 at Faculty of Architecture Student Center at 12.00

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Dixit featured in the Montenegrin Journal "Casopis Prostor"

Prof. Dixit is featured in the latest issue of the Balkan design journal 'Casopis Prostor'. The article focus on Dixit's office, teaching, research, and DOMAIN's latest ambition in the Balkans.

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ABX Boston - Prof. Dixit to lead a workshop

Thursday November 7th at ABX Boston DOMAIN's Mitesh Dixit will be running a mentoring workshop - ArchitectureBoston Expo (ABX) is the largest building and design trade show and conference in the Northeast attracting 8,000 architects, builders/contractors and design professionals

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Dixit Visiting Scholar at University SS. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, N. Macedonia

DOMAIN's Mitesh Dixit will be a Visiting Scholar at the University SS. “Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje Faculty of Architecture, serving as a critic for the Integrative Design Studio IX , Architecture as Infrastructure: Archipelago of Innovations

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"Landscapes of Extraction" part of "Staying Here with You...Moving" at Balkan 2020

On October 10th, 2019, DOMAIN's Landscapes of Extraction will open as part of the "Staying Here with You...Moving" exhibition at the Balkan 2020 Theatre.

Employing critical cartography, the installation will illustrate Switzerland’s dependency of capital, culture, and intellectual production, from the Republic of Serbia. A multi scalar physical map will redefine the terrain between the two as a continuous landscape, more precisely, a territory defined via the extraction of material & immaterial resources.

A series of maps, which will challenge the Cartesian certainty of traditional mapping, will illustrate the one-sided exchange between the “two” countries as well as develop new techniques to investigate our material contours in a way that will enable us to re-conceive and question the very nature of how we illustrate and design our built environment.

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"Between Myth & Utopia" Mitesh Dixit to lecture at the Pratt Institute

Wednesday, June 19th, Dixit will deliver his lecture "Between Myth & Utopia: Architecture as Infrastructure" at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

A genealogical survey of Yugoslavian construction techniques Via a mis-reading of Berlin’s concept of Freedom, Dixit's talk will illustrate Tito’s vision to employ architecture as infrastructure in pursuit of a freedom that differs from both the west and east, i.e. a ‘Third Way’.

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Opening of the Exhibition "Between Myth & Utopia" at the Faculty of Architecture Skopje, MK

Thursday, June 13th, the Faculty of Architecture at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius (Архитектонски факултет Скопје / Faculty of Architecture, UKIM) in Skopje, Macedonia will host the opening of the exhibition "Between Myth & Utopia: Architecture as Infrastructure."Assistant Professor Mitesh Dixit will moderate a round table discussion at 1:30 p.m. featuring Syracuse Architecture Associate Dean and Professor Julia Czerniak and Faculty of Architecture Skopje Dean and Professor Ognen Marina.

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"Material Contours" Exhibition at Syracuse University School of Architecture

Thursday, May 2 on the 4th floor in Slocum Hall, the final works from the spring seminar, Material Contours: Introduction to Critical Cartography, will be on display.The exhibition will be on display from 9am – 7pm, with a discussion with faculty from Architecture and Geography, beginning at 10am.

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DOMAIN invited as an 'emerging practice' for event at The New Museum

Next Tuesday, March 26 at 6:30 p.m. at the New Museum in NYC, Assistant Professor Mitesh Dixit, founder of DOMAIN OFFICE will participate in a collective conversation around the common ground of building practices organized by the Columbia GSAPP Incubator.

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Dixit to lecture in Novi Sad, Serbia - The European Capital of Culture in 2021

Dixit’s lecture will offer a manual for post-contemporary preservation, which will lay out an effective and holistic strategy for preserving the legacy of any structure, by offering tools to examine the material and immaterial contours of our built environment.

Novi Sad is among the first cities outside the European Union to be declared the European Capital of Culture and thus became one of the 60 cities that took this title, fostering the richness of diversity and interculturalism.

The main idea of the ‘4 New Bridges’ programme narrative aims to leave Novi Sad firm legacies that improve the cultural life of the city: new programmes, new processes, involved people (citizens, cultural institutions, associations, organisations, artists) and new spaces for culture. That is exactly why the vision of the project is: ‘The Beginning of New. Now!’

At the end of 2020, on 23 December, the official decision of the European Commission was made to postpone the title year for 2022 due to the global crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The decision came into force on 1 January 2021, and Novi Sad joined Kaunas (Lithuania) and Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg), as the European Capital of Culture in 2022.

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Mitesh Dixit to moderate "The Birth Part 1" at Center for Architecture in New York City

The Birth – Part 1 is the first of two conversations exposing deeper investigations into Hip-Hop Architecture. Mitesh Dixit will moderate the session.This is a program of Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip Hop Architecture.Monday, November 26th from 6-8pm, and The Center for Architecture in New York City

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DOMAIN - Publications

DOMAIN's publication are now available on-line

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"Borders: The Architecture of Violence" Mitesh Dixit to lecture at the AA in London

As part of the 'Design Agency within Earth Systems" organized by Ed Wall (University of Greenwich), Lindsay Bremner (University of Westminster) and Alfredo Ramirez (Architecture Association), Mitesh Dixit will present "Borders: The Architecture of Violence".

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Mitesh Dixit interviewed by TV Telma on the Mexico/US Border

DOMAIN's Mitesh Dixit was interviewed TV Telma to share his work and discuss the inherent racism, systematic violence, and the absolute stupidly of our countries absurd and impossible desire to build a border wall between Mexico and US.

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Mitesh Dixit's AUCD 6th Ohrid Summer School "Material Contours"

Mitesh Dixit / DOMAIN Office / Syracuse University will be leading the 6th International Summer School of Architecture, organized by the School of Architecture and Design, University American College Skopje. The summer school will take place in Ohrid, Macedonia from 25 June - 2 July 2017.

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"Comparative Urban Atlas" at the 'Material Contours' Exhibition in Skopje, Macedonia

The Comparative Urban Atlas launched 27 June, 2018 at the Material Contours exhibition in Skopje, Macedonia! The result of a Syracuse Architecture graduate-level seminar led by Prof. Mitesh, the C.U.A. studies and compiles visualized data across 12 select cities around the world.The exhibition will examine and illustrate this paradigm shift, the emergence of the geographic and the emerging tools necessary for designers to operate and shape larger scales and contexts, i.e. Territories.

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"Comparative Urban Atlas Exhibition" at Syracuse University School of Architecture

Wednesday 18 April, 2018 - The Comparative Urban Atlas launches at Syracuse University School of Architecture. The CUA is result of a Syracuse Architecture graduate-level seminar led by Prof. Mitesh Dixit the C.U.A. studies and compiles visualized data across 12 select cities around the world. The CUA will be part of the "Material Contours" Exhibition in Skopje, Macedonia on June 27th, 2018.

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"After Marx: Material Contours" by Mitesh Dixit at School of Architecture & Design UACS in Skopje, Macedonia

On Wednesday, 14 March, 18.00, at the School of Architecture and Design UACS in Skopje, Macedonia. Mitesh Dixit’s lecture will illustrate DOMAIN’s work in Monterrey, Mexico and the US / Mexico Border, both of which present territorial transformation via ideology. Dixit’s lecture will examine and critique Marx’s notion of Alienation, thereby exposing the relationship between architectural form and the politicalUniversity American College Skopje Blvd. Treta makedonska brigada no.60, Skopje 1000, Macedonia

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"St. Pete Next...past, present, and future" - moderated by Mitesh Dixit

"St. Pete...Next" at Studio@620 in St.Petersburg, Florida.The symposium will discuss two of the most significant challenges of our time: rapid urbanization and climate change, in a city with many of the world’s greatest opportunities and threats. The panel will consist of Ray Arsenault / USF - St. Petersburg, Lori Brown/ Syracuse Architecture, Maya Burke/Tampa Bay Estuary Program, Tim Clemmons/ PLACE Architecture, Joseph Godlewski/Syracuse Architecture, Bob Devin Jones / Studio 620, and Sharon Wright / City of St. Petersburg, Mitesh Dixit of DOMAIN Office and Syracuse University will moderate the event.

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Material Contours – The co-dependency between territorial investigation and architecture

Floris van der Burght of DOMAIN Office and TU Delft will give an introduction lecture at the School of Architecture, 02 February at 1200 EST, to kick-off a four-day workshop for graduate students, which will provide an introduction to critical cartography, via digital mapping, Data Scrapping, and graphic representation. Through instruction of ArcGIS and Python, the students will use mapping, search, and graphic tools to think, organize, and visualize data at multiple scales and varying mediums, in order to learn how to begin a project.

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DOMAIN launches Belgrade Studio

DOMAIN Office has launched a new research studio in Belgrade, Serbia to begin a five-year research project on the Balkans. The Belgrade Studio will be led by Creative Director Sandra Subić. The studio’s primary ambition will be to focus at the intersection of ideologies, feudalism to urbanism to communism to capitalism. The intent is to examine one site per year, in the Balkans, and compile the work into an Atlas. Employing forensics, analysis, and documentation, the work will document the intersection of conflicting ideologies at specific moments in the urban fabric, to objectively illustrate the transformations, e.g. housing, street hierarchy, mobility, landscape, ecologies, and infrastructure. The research will focus on sites where these transformations took place; these sites are perhaps the only examples, which have illustrated the ‘vision’ of both Communist and Capitalist Ideologies.

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"ON Process" Key Note Lecture by Mitesh Dixit to close 2017 Strand Conference

On Thursday, 21 December, 18.30, at the Faculty Of Architecture in Belgrade, DOMAIN's Mitesh Dixit will deliver the Keynote lecture ‘On Process’ at the closing of the fifth international STRAND conference 'ON Architecture'.Amphitheater, Faculty Of Architecture, Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 73, 2nd floor

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"The Need for (re) Definition" by Mitesh Dixit at Faculty of Architecture, Skopje, Macedonia

DOMAIN's Mitesh Dixit will deliver his lecture "Need for (re) Definition", , Tuesday 19 December, at 1900 at Faculty of Architecture - Skopje / Архитектонски факултет Скопje / UKIM, Macedonia.

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Mitesh Dixit to close "ON Architecture" exhibition at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

On Friday, December 15th at the Gallery of Science and Technology – Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Mitesh Dixit of DOMAIN, serving as the President of the Jury, will deliver the closing remarks at the exhibition 'ON Architecture' and announce the winning exhibitions.

 

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CCdC to be on exhibit at STRAND 2017 Exhibition "ON Architecture"

On December 15th, at 1800, Mitesh Dixit, of DOMAIN Office to present the project ‘CCdC’ at the Gallery of Science and Technology – Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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Mitesh Dixit featured in the Daily Orange

DOMAIN's Mitesh Dixit is featured in the latest issue of Syracuse University's Daily Orange. The essay focus on Dixit's office, teaching, research, and DOMAIN's latest ambition - The Belgrade Studio.

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"The Need for (re) Definition" Key Note Lecture by Mitesh Dixit at 2017 Strand Conference

DOMAIN's Mitesh Dixit will delivery the Key Note Lecture for the Strand Conference "ON Architecture - Case Netherlands" - The lecture will examine a fundamental question regarding our future: What is a City?Keynote Talks will be hosted at University of Belgrade, Faculty Of Architecture, Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 73, 2nd floor, Belgrade, Serbia

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Mitesh Dixit featured in City Magazine

Belgrade Journalist and Architect Ljuba Slavkovic has profiled DOMAIN's Mitesh Dixit in the Serbian Publication "City Magazine".

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Mitesh Dixit feature in the Macedonian journal 'ArhiTek'

DOMAIN's MItesh Dixit is featured in the latest issue of the Архитек journal (Arhitek.afs)...make sure to order your copy now!

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"On Process" lecture by Mitesh Dixit at Studio@620

Mesh Architecture and Studio@620 are pleased to present Mitesh Dixit of DOMAIN Office to deliver his lecture “On Process”. Dixit’s lecture will explore the relationship between theory and practice, the question of what theory is and does, and what constitutes a definition. Through an analysis of academic and professional works, each with varying architectural typology, density, and location, Dixit will illustrate DOMAIN’s desire to find a ‘new’ definition for practice.

The lecture will take place on Thursday, January 12th, 2017 at the Studio@620 Gallery in St. Petersburg, Florida at 18:30.

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"Violence" - Mitesh Dixit to lecture at Knjižara Karver

Nezavisna platforma za obrazovanje SCAPES:LAB, u saradnji sa URBAR, Podgorica poziva vas na predavanje i razgovor sa arhitektom i filozofom, Miteš Diksitom u sredu, 21. decembra u 18:00 časova u sali KUD "Stanko Dragojević" (iznad knjizare Karver) u Podgorici. Događaj se organizuje u okviru višegodišnje saradnje između platforme SCAPES:LAB i studija DOMAIN OFFICE (Njujork - Roterdam) kroz nekoliko posebnih tematskih programa, kao što su "FLAT.SCAPES:LAB" u Holandiji, "Belgrade.SCAPES:LAB" i "Anatomy of a Landmark: Belgrade" u Beogradu i dr. Predavanja su održana i u Skoplju, Novom Sadu i Beogradu.

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"Death of Modernity" - Mitesh Dixit to lecture in Belgrade

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