“Civilization: The Collective Life”
Beijing, China – March, 2019
In public
Art Gallery of Alberta
“Cul-de sac”
Edmonton, Canada – April, 2019
National Gallery of Victoria
“Civilization: The Collective Life”
Melbourne, Australia – September, 2019
Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée
“Civilization: The Collective Life”
Marseille, France – January, 2021
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
“Civilization: The Collective Life”
Gwacheon / Seoul, Korea – October, 2018
Cathy Weis Projects
Sundays on Broadway, “California Growth Machine”
New York – April, 2018
TEDxKIT (re)imagining the future
Christian Tschersich, “Complex Architecture”
Karlsruhe, Germany – December, 2017
ikob Museum for Contemporary Art
exhibition, “Ressentiment”, A secret Rancour – Notions of Resentment
Eupen, Belgium – January, 2017
video installation with films: “Fluids Dynamic”
score by Michael Atkinson
and “California Growth Machine”.
ikob Museum for Contemporary Art
solo exhibition, “Suburban Bubble: Zoned for Monoculture”
Eupen, Belgium – January, 2017
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Shift
“Roam”, Seattle – March 3, 2016
Amy Fettig
director, Stop Solitary Campaign ACLU, “Supermax: Structures of Confinement and Rationales of Punishment” project endorsement
Washington D.C. – March, 2016
Fredrik Gertten
documentary feature, “Bikes vs Cars”, WG Film, Malmö, Sweden – 2015
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The Prix Pictet
Global Award in Photography and Sustainability
2015 nominee, Geneva, Switzerland
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Modest Mouse
“the ground walks, with time in a box”, limited edition on vinyl, Epic – March, 2015
Hemara Foundation
mentor, Tending Space Fellowship, Sebastian Collett
Boulder, 2015
TEDxVancouver
Charles Montgomery, “The Happy City Experiment”
Vancouver, Canada – December, 2014
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The Museum of Modern Art
“Uneven Growth” Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities
New York – November, 2014
Smoke Farm
Rubicon Foundation / Symposium Six, speaker
“Ciphers: Decoding the Growth Machine”
Arlington – July 26, 2014
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Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe
Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2014
Karlsruhe, Germany – July, 2014
CJSW 90.9fm radio
Amery Calvelli, “Space+Place” featured guest
episode 36: landscape lessons
Calgary, Canada – July 2, 2014
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Venice Biennale Architettura
Venice Arsenale, Italy – June, 2014
PBS Newshour
Judy Woodruff, “All Things Art”
Arlington – May 30, 2014
Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg in Brüssel
Wanderausstellung Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2014
Brussels, Belgium – May, 2014
artbook D.A.P.
Ciphers, book release
New York – April 30, 2014
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Centre Pompidou
Bernard Tschumi rétrospective, exhibition
Paris, France – April 30, 2014
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IBO Frühjahrsmesse am Bodensee
Wanderausstellung Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2014
Fiedrichshafen, Germany – March 2014
Forum für Fotografie
Wanderausstellung Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2014
Köln, Germany – February, 2014
Stuttgarter Buchwochen
Wanderausstellung Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2014
Haus der Wirtschaft
Stuttgart, Germany – December, 2013
Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2014
Ciphers was nominated for the 2014 German photography book prize
Stuttgart, Germany – October, 2013
Guggenheim Museum
Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab
New York – October 11, 2013
Zeppelin Museum
“Die Welt von oben – Die Vogelperspektive in der Kunst”
Friedrichshafen, Germany – October 11, 2013
exhibition catalogue ISBN 978-3-00-043729-8
Jovis Verlag
Christoph Gielen, “Ciphers” book publication / 2013 European release
ISBN 978-3-86859-318-1
Berlin, Germany – September 17, 2013
ING Photography Collection at Frankendael Foundation
“If Walls Could Speak”
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – August, 2013
Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund
grant, Ciphers book publication / Jovis Verlag
Hudson, N.Y. – June, 2013
Puffin Foundation
grant, American Prison Perspectives
Teaneck, N.J. – May, 2013
italk fm Radio Spain
Radio Jones show
featured guest
Marbella-Estepona, Spain – March 25, 2013
Creative Time Reports
“Ask the Artist”
Join Christoph Gielen, cultural historian Michael Prokopow, and President of
Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) Raphael Sperry for
a live discussion
New York – March 1, 2013 1p.m. (EST)
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Creative Time
public art projects
Supermax Prisons: Views from Above
New York – February, 2013
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Creative Time Reports
“provocative perspectives of artists on the most challenging issues of our times”
contributor
New York – February, 2013
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The Canary Project
“Ciphers”, project partner
New York – December, 2012
George Maciunas Foundation
“Fluxcity”, Christoph Gielen
New York – August-September, 2012
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Daniel Cooney Fine Art
Summer Salon
New York – June, 2012
Fund for Investigative Journalism
grant, American Prison Perspectives
collaboration with cultural historian Michael J. Prokopow
Washington D.C. – May, 2012
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Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Kunst-Werke Berlin, digital venue, platform for media activism
Berlin, Germany – April, 2012
Blue Earth Alliance
“Incarcerated Populations: American Prison Perspectives”
Seattle – March, 2012
MoMA
Energy Future Platform
Nation-wide public art campaign,
The Netherlands — December, 2011
Metropolis. City Life in the Urban Age
Eesti Arhitektuurimuuseum,
Tallinn, Estonia — October 28 / November 12, 2011
Metropolis. City Life in the Urban Age
The Empty Quarter Gallery,
Dubai, United Arab Emirates — October 19 / November 30, 2011
BMW Guggenheim Lab NYC
Discussion, “Sprawl: Past, Present, Future” New York – October 8, 2011
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Tokyo Photo 2011
Danziger Gallery, Tokyo Midtown Hall, Roppongi
September 23 – 25, 2011
Noorderlicht
“Metropolis”
Groningen, The Netherlands – 2011
Forward Thinking Museum
Christoph Gielen, “Ciphers”
New York – 2011
Congress for the New Urbanism
panel discussion, “Sprawl Retrofit at the Macro Scale”
Madison – June 3, 2011
CNN International
TV discussion, “World One”
London, England – November, 2010
TEDxMidAtlantic
discussion, “What if?” Washington D.C. — November 5, 2010
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Aaron Siskind Foundation
Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, New York – 2010
Jen Bekman
“Land Use Survey”
New York – 2010
Forward Thinking Museum
“Engineering the Landscape”
New York – 2010
Santa Fe Prize for Photography
2009 nominee, Center, Santa Fe
Athens Institute for Contemporary Art
“Running on Empty”, featured soloist
Athens – 2009
inven’terre
Conseil general Bouches-du-Rhone, Marseille, France – 2009
Daniel Cooney Fine Art
Christoph Gielen, “Arcadia”
New York – 2008
Nederlands Foto Museum
“REAL Photography Award” exhibition
Rotterdam, The Netherlands – 2008
Mesa Arts Center
“Mass Consumption”
Mesa – 2008
Festival Voies Off
“Climax”, featured soloist
Arles, France – 2007
REAL Photography Award
2007 nominee, ING Bank
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Arthouse at the Jones Center
“New American Talent”
Austin – 2006
FotoFest 2006 Biennial
“the earth”
Houston – 2006
KPFT-FM Houston
radio discussion, “Open Journal” Houston – March, 2006
Exit Art Biennial
Exit Art, “Traffic”
New York – 2005
In print
Creative Time / Paper Chase
Marisa Mazria Katz, “Artists on the News”
Selections from Creative Time Reports
Los Angeles – September, 2019
DADA
Art and Culture Monthly, issue No. 246
“Architecture XXL”
Paris, France – May, 2020
Braun
Christine Nickl-Wellner, Hans Nickl, “Architecture for Health”
Salenstein, Switzerland – July, 2020
FEP
William Ewing, Bartomeu Mari, Holly Roussell Perret-Gentil
“Civilization” The Way We Live Now, catalog
Thames&Hudson, London, England – September, 2018
Aperture
quarterly, Prison Nation, issue 230
Aperture Foundation, New York – March, 2018
Laurent Castaignéde
monograph, “Airvore ou la face obscure des transports”
Chronique d’une pollution annoncée
Les Éditions Écosociété, Montréal, Canada – March, 2018
Diaphanes
Art and Literature Quarterly, issue No. 1
Keramet Reiter, Christoph Gielen, “Supermax”
Zurich, Switzerland – April, 2017
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Third Text, Routledge
Albert Stabler, “Mike Kelley and the Supermax”, essay
London, England – December, 2016
New York Foundation for the Arts, Fiscal Sponsorship
501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, “Supermax” film development
New York – December, 2016
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Keramet Reiter
monograph, “23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement”
Yale University Press, New Haven – October, 2016
Birgit Müller
“Monofunktionale Hyperräume – Fragmentierung des Stadtgefüges oder nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung?”
Eine explorative Studie über einen neuen Stadttyp, LIT Verlag, Münster, Germany – June, 2016
ISBN 3-643-13439-4
FXFOWLE Architects
Heidi Blau, “Moving Parts / Modular Architecture in a Flat World”, research publication
New York – Spring, 2016
Mint
Padmaparna Ghosh, “Looking down is looking up”, Delhi, India – January, 2016
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Rana Dasgupta, Mariana Fix, Andrew Herscher, Sandi Hilal, Anne Kochelkorn, David J. Madden, Reinhold Martin, Justin McGuirk, Abdou Maliq Simone,
“Housing after the Neoliberal Turn. International Case Studies”, Serie Wohnungsfrage, catalog, Berlin, Germany – October, 2015
ISBN 978-3-95905-048-7 Purchase online
Clean Technica
Adam Johnston, “Book Review: Design For the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for A Sustainable World” – September 1, 2015
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Jared Green
Essays, “Design for the Future: 80 Practical Ideas for a Sustainable World”
Christoph Gielen, “Solar Roadways”, Princeton Architectural Press, New York
– April, 2015
ISBN 9781616893002
Géographie 2e
“Géographie 2e, Sociétés et développement durable”, Éditions MAGNARD, Paris, France – February, 2015
The Museum of Modern Art
Teddy Cruz, “Rethinking Uneven Growth” / “Uneven Growth” Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities, catalog, New York – November, 2014
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L.A. Taco
interview with Christoph Gielen, Creator of “Ciphers: Decoding the Growth Machine” – September, 2014
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trend update
Zukunftsinstitut, Christoph Gielen, “Muster der Vorstadt” Fotoreportage
Hamburg, Germany – August, 2014
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Fast Company
“suburbs are… works of art”, issue 187, New York – July/August, 2014
ArquitecturaViva
av proyectos, issue 064 Expo Milano 2015
Christoph Gielen, “Ciphers: Decoding the Growth Machine” title feature
Madrid, Spain – July/August, 2014
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The Dirt / American Society of Landscape Architects
Jared Green, “Christoph Gielen’s Photographs Document the Failures of Sprawl”, Washington D.C. – July, 2014
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BRYLA
architektura na ?wiecie: Agnieszka Rumi?ska, “Tak mieszkaj? w USA. Ziemia z nieba w obiektywie Christopha Gielena”,
Poland – July, 2014
Hazlitt
print issue No. 2 Summer 2014, Michael Prokopow, “The Life They Planned For You”,
Toronto, Canada – June, 2014
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plataforma arquitectura
Javiera Yávar, “Arte y Arquitectura: Fotos aéreas de la expansión urbana en ciudades estadounidenses”
Chile – June, 2014
444
Péter Erdélyi, “Így zabálja fel a város a környezetét”, Hungary – June, 2014
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SLR Lounge
Featured Projects: Ryan Filgas, “Searching Suburbia And Solving Sprawl / aerial photographs by Christoph Gielen”, Santa Ana – June, 2014
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MoMA book store in New York
May, 2014
PBS NewsHour
Art Beat: Victoria Fleischer, “Photographer goes to great heights for call to arms on sprawl”, Arlington – May, 2014
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Guardian Liberty Voice
Stacy Lamy, “Christoph Gielen: Deciphering the Code for Human Habitation”
Las Vegas – May, 2014
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La Revue de la Terre – Numéro 15
Explorama par Christoph Gielen, “Ciphers ou la géométrie des banlieues”
Paris, France – May, 2014
Yorokobu
Alex Kafiristan, “La perturbadora belleza de los mandalas de extrarradio”
Fotografia aerea de Christoph Gielen, Madrid, Spain – May, 2014
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N GUOI DUA TIN
“L?c vào mê cung nh?ng khu dân c? ngo?i ô M?” Ciphers, book review
Vietnam – May, 2014
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Metro
Anthony Johnson, “Photos: Artist Christoph Gielen spots interesting patterns in urban sprawl” – May, 2014
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Anthony Johnson, “Les motifs de l’étalement urbain”, Canada – May, 2014
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The New York Times
Allison Arieff, “Can Paradise Be Planned?” New York – April, 2014
ASX
Raphael Shammaa, “Christoph Gielen’s new photo book Ciphers. Worth a thousand words, at least”, book review, Sacramento – April, 2014
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Centre Pompidou
Aurélien Lemonier, Frédéric Migayrou, Bernard Tschumi, “Bernard Tschumi”, catalog Paris, France – April, 2014
Parade
Isabelle Raphael, “Incredible Aerial Photos of American Suburbia” Ciphers, book review
Nashville – April, 2014
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Business Insider
Harrison Jacobs, “These Are Some Mesmerizing Photos Of The Urban Sprawl That’s Devouring The Planet” Ciphers, book review, New York – April, 2014
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Fast.Co
Adele Peters, “America’s Oddly Beautiful Suburban Sprawl, Photographed From The Sky” Ciphers, book review
New York – April, 2014
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Daily Mail
Ashley Collman, “Decoding the hidden circles of suburbia: Photographer takes stunning pictures of America’s urban sprawl from the sky” Ciphers, book review
London, England – April, 2014
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The New York Times
Allison Arieff, “Can Paradise Be Planned?” New York – April, 2014
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ArchDaily
AD editorial team, “Christoph Gielen’s Ciphers: Aerial Views of American Sprawl”,
book announcement, Santiago, Chile – April, 2014
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The Daily Beast
Tim Teeman, “the beauty of the burbs…” Ciphers, book review, New York – April, 2014
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PDN
Dzana Tsomondo, “Fearful Symmetry” Ciphers, book review, New York – April, 2014
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PHOTONEWS
Denis Brudna, “Die Welt von oben” Ciphers, book review, Hamburg, Germany – March, 2014
A A – l’architecture d’aujourd’hui
Laurie Picout, “Ciphers ou la géométrie des banlieues”
Paris, France – January, 2014
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competition Nr.6
Magazin für Architekten, Ingenieure und Bauherren
“Geheimcodes der Zersiedelung”, Christoph Gielen: Ciphers
Berlin, Germany – January, 2014
uncube – magazine blog
Susie Lee, “Suburban Kaleidoscope: Christoph Gielen’s photographs of human land-use patterns” Ciphers, book review
Berlin, Germany – January, 2014
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kasseler fotobuchblog
Andreas Gebhardt, “Alles nach Plan” Ciphers, book review, Kassel, Germany – December 14, 2013
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S+RO
Lianne van Duinen, “Ciphers: Christoph Gielen”, book review
Den Haag, The Netherlands – December, 2013
Metropolis Magazine
Mark Lamster, “End the Prison-Industrial Complex”
The Year in Review Activism and Design, New York – December, 2013
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uncube – magazine no. 15 “Veins”
Jessica Bridger, “Centimeters, Kilometers, Escalators” Berlin, Germany – October, 2013
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architekturbild news
Simone Hübener
Rezension, “Christoph Gielen / Ciphers” Stuttgart, Germany – October, 2013
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Suedkurier
“Die abgehobenste Ausstellung des Jahres” Konstanz, Germany – October, 2013
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Frank-Thorsten Moll, Ursula Zeller
Zeppelin Museum
Catalogue, “Die Welt von oben – Die Vogelperspektive in der Kunst”
Friedrichshafen, Germany – October, 2013
ISBN 978-3-00-043729-8 Purchase online
Jovis Verlag, Berlin
“Ciphers” European book launch, Berlin, Germany – September, 2013
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Sunday Review / The New York Times
“Is Suburban Sprawl on Its Way Back?” New York – September, 2013
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Solitary Watch
“Opposing the Architecture of Isolation: Architects Against Solitary Confinement,” Washington D.C – April, 2013
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Prison Photography
“Christoph Gielen Goes Up In The Air, Shares a Broad Perspective On Solitary Confinement,” Portland – April, 2013
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Wired Magazine
“Patterns as Priorities: Aerial Supermax Prison Photos Echo Shapes of Suburbia,”
San Francisco – April, 2013
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June Williamson
Monograph, “Designing Suburban Futures”, Island Press
Washington D.C. – March, 2013
ISBN 9781597262415 Purchase online
Daily Mail
“Cons from the Air: Vast super-max prison captured from above in series of stunning shots
showing layout designed for total lockdown,” London, England – March, 2013
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WriteAmerica.us
“Supermax Prisons: Views from Above,” – February, 2013
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Creative Time Reports
Christoph Gielen, “Supermax Prisons: Views from Above,”
New York – February, 2013
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Bernard Tschumi
monograph, “Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color”, Rizzoli
New York – October, 2012
Fast Company Co.EXIST
Progressive business media, “The Hidden Beauty Of Suburban Sprawl,”
New York – September, 2012
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Japa
Journal, American Planning Association, Volume 78, issue 3
Chicago – July, 2012
PDN
Magazine, “Behind the Scene,” Fine-Art Photography
New York – July, 2012
Japa
Journal, American Planning Association, Volume 78, issue 2
Chicago – April, 2012
N+1
Literary magazine, Issue 13, New York – February, 2012
Blueprint
issue 310, architecture and design magazine, London, England – January, 2012
Japa
Journal, American Planning Association, Volume 78, issue 1
Chicago – January, 2012
Energy Future
Nation-wide public art campaign, The Netherlands – December, 2011
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NRC Handelsblad
Energy Future edition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – December, 2011
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Veco
Christoph Gielen, “Geometry of Sprawl, Home, Visions of Earth”
magazine issue 10, China – November, 2011
Arqa
contemporary art and architecture magazine, “Casa de estudo”
Portugal – November, 2011
Forward
Journal, architecture and design, AIA issue 211, “Adaption”
Washington D.C. – November, 2011
Trop space
Blog, “l Art de la eometrie spatiale” France – October, 2011
Noorderlicht
Catalog, “Metropolis / City Life in the Urban Age”
Groningen, The Netherlands – September, 2011
ISBN: 9789076703466 Purchase online
Adbusters
magazine #97 vol. 19 no. 5
Vancouver, Canada – September, 2011
Public
Journal, art issue 43, “Suburbs”
Canada – August, 2011
Rooilijn
Nr.4 “Geheimschrift”, geography sociology and demographics monthly
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – March, 2011
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Panorama
Andy J. Wang, “New Urbanism vs. Landscape Urbanism” journal vol. 19
Philadelphia – March 2011
CNN World
Matthew Knight, “America’s suburban sprawl elevated to aerial art”, daily
London, England – November, 2010
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Sustainable Cities Collective
Blog, “Christoph Gielen’s Aerial Photos of Sprawl” — November, 2010
The New York Times
Op-Ed, Tim Doody and Christoph Gielen, “They Unpaved Paradise”
New York – October, 2010
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Scope
magazine, “The invisible geometry of our urban lives” – October, 2010
SF.STREETSblog
“Sprawl Anemones” San Francisco – September, 2010
Wired
magazine, “Geometrie urbane”, Italy – September, 2010
The New York Times
Op-Ed, Christoph Gielen, “The Death of a Building” New York – August, 2010
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The New York Times
Op-Ed, Geoff Manaugh and Christoph Gielen, “The Geometry of Sprawl”
New York – September, 2010
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Shanghaiist
magazine, “China’s Instant Cities” Shanghai, China – September, 2010
Core 77
Blog, “Joe Rogan, on why we’re even here…” – July, 2010
The New York Times
Op-Ed, Tim Doody and Christoph Gielen, “China’s Instant Cities”
New York – July, 2010
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BLDGblog
Blog, Geoff Manaugh, “Species of Space” New York – June, 2010
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Culturehall
Blog, “Future History” New York – June, 2010
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PDN
magazine, “Photo Annual 2010” New York – May, 2010
The New York Times
Op-Ed, Allison Arieff, “Space: It’s Still a Frontier” – February, 2010