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Co-founded by Ben Reynolds and Valle Medina, Palace is an architectural design and research collaborative that speculates and reacts to issues existing in levels of culture, space and economy, with a specific concern for the relationship between architectural and social forms.

Projects


Continuous Lodge (Soon)	New Value	Ten Moments of Production	DGpl	Два мнения (Two Views) (Soon)	Space and Lies (Ongoing)	Dubai: Home Away from Home	Guangzhou Fortified Student Housing	The Geography of the Factory (Ongoing)	Prec(ar)ious

Building Reports


2012 : 01	2012 : 02	2013 : 01 Forthcoming

Selected Texts

Year	Title	Related Project
2012	Californian Stratum (Forthcoming)	New Value
2012	The Reterritorialisers, the Compromised and the Fundamentalists (Forthcoming)	-
2011	Capital and Architecture: Mediations between the Economic and the Aesthetic	Prec(ar)ious
2011	Consumption, Immobilisation, Aspiration: The Australian Ugliness (Forthcoming)	-
2010	Restoring Our Sense-of-Place	-
2009	Dubai's Virtual/Reality: Grotesque Spatial division of labour and ersatz architecture vs. CAPITAL/SEX	Dubai: Home Away from Home

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Net-Materials

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06/03/2013 - The Sorry Jacket™

The following is an excerpt of a longer text published in Fulcrum (Issue No. 69). We contributed to the issue with Javier Arbona of Demilit. *** A recent internal memo meant for heads of executive departments and agencies revealed the documentation of a “Sorry Jacket” at the request of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The proposal was first mentioned by Clinton in February 2011 following the diplomatic cables leak—Cablegate—that began in February 2010...

25/01/2013 - Model Milieus

PA/LA/CE led a workshop—Model Milieus—with first year students at the Architectural Association in London on Monday 21st January. The aim of the workshop was to stimulate ideas for architectural projects based on a few parametres (namely social and cultural prerequisites) whilst looking at structures in nature that could be linked to the social practices occurring within their projects...

25/07/2012 - Public stages for a Bios-politikos

In Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition she describes how an active life is composed of three elements: labour, work and political action. Labour is a non-natural activity of man’s exigency, work provides an “artificiality”...

29/12/2011 - Celestial Home Button

A series of explorations on the idea of "Home Buttons" for JUNKJET nº5. We are used to looking back to understand the origin, we click on the home button as an act of renewal, and reference in real-time...

26/12/2011 - Merry Materiality

Objective: To exchange material goods wrapped in the symbols we identify as our contemporary immaterial goods and tools of exchange. Process: Strip off these symbols and slow bits and bobs that are soon to consume our precious space and occupy our living rooms. Take away the flat image-buttons and instantaneously begin to devalue what is inside. Enjoy the sensation of tearing; the sound of ripping. You will only destroy what is contained within. The moment when you dreamt...