The Ambivalence of Smoke: Pollution and Modern Architectural Historiography

Jorge Otero-Pailos is an architect, artist, and theorist specializing in experimental forms of preservation. He is Associate Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University, founder and editor of the journal Future Anterior, and the author of Architecture's Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). His installations have been exhibited internationally in shows such as the Venice Art Biennale (2009) and the Manifesta Biennial (2008).