René Boer (1986) works as a curator, critic and researcher in the fields of architecture, urbanism, heritage and art. He is part of the Amsterdam-based Non-fiction collective, managing editor at Failed Architecture and affiliated with various urban social movements. Over the last few years, he has curated various exhibitions, public programmes and research projects, and has written for among others Volume, Harvard Design Magazine and Studio.
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This Very Normal Dutch Architecture Firm Remains Responsible for Designing a Deportation Machine

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What If Architects Were to Embrace, Rather Than Ignore, a Building’s Future?

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Amsterdam’s Architectures of Hospitality

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Self-Builds: Between Unruly Real Estate Markets and Failed Housing Policies

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Instagramming Architecture

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Slum Porn: Urban Misery as Catchy Imagery

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The Tyranny of the Filter Bubble and the Future of Public Space

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Why the Pop-up Hype Isn’t Going to Save Our Cities

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What the City of the Future Looks Like in the Next Economy

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What the City of the Future Looks Like If We Don’t Change Course

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On Zaha Hadid’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza

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Going Embedded at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2016: The Next Economy

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Orphan City

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8 Reasons You Will Also Like Postmodern Architecture In 2016

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Photo Essay: Amman’s Forgotten Cinemas

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Photo Essay: DORP

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Did Suburbia Fail?

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Filth: Capturing Concrete Ecologies

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Erasing the Remnants of a Revolution

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Photo Essay: On the Resilience of Ugliness

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Photo Essay: Ebola Curfew in Freetown

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Concrete Experience: Bakema’s TrouwAmsterdam

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Buildings Must Die

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Notes on La Maddalena

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Capturing Transience: Urban Exploration Photography

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Two Banks Shaping the African Skyline

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Failed Architecture tracked changes at the São Paulo Architecture Biennale

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Brussels’ Administrative Centre: an Uncontrollable Urban Tumor?

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Architecture on the Move: Refugee Dwellings in Amsterdam

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The Copycat Hype: Learning from a Saint Peter Replica

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Ouagadougou’s Innercity Savanna

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This is Not a Gateway Festival 2013

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The (In)visible Architecture of Illegalised Refugees

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