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Lisa Robertson talks at UC San Diego

Feb 2

Lisa Robertson (Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture and Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip) delivers a talk entitled 'Sounding the City' at UC San Diego on February 2, 2009.

Make sure to catch Robertson's reading the next day - same time and place.

Location: 
Literature Building - Room 155
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA, 92093
United States
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Lisa Robertson in Los Angeles

Jan 31

Lisa Robertson (Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip), reads with Yedda Morrison at L.A. art collective compactspace on January 31, 2009.

Lisa Robertson in Los Angeles
with Yedda Morrison, hosted by Vanessa Place
sponsored by Les Figues Press and the Poetic Research Bureau
Saturday, January 31, 2009
compactspace, 105 E 6th Street
Los Angeles, CA
$5.00

Location: 
compactspace
105 E 6th Street
Los Angeles, CA, 90014
United States
See map: Google Maps
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Related Contributors: 
Lisa Robertson
Related Titles: 
Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip
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Canadian Architect reviews Occasional Work

Review: Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture
By Julie Bogdanowicz
Canadian Architect
April 2007

Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

By Lisa Robertson. Toronto: Coach House Books, 2006.

Lisa Robertson, the Canadian essayist and poet, is not an architect, but her interests in the discipline led her to describe herself as a soft architect.

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Lisa Robertson interviewed in See Magazine

See Magazine in Edmonton recently interviewed Lisa Robertson about her most recent books, Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture and The Men:<!--newline--><!--newline-->Peeling back the city's skin<!--newline-->Lisa Robertson unearths a secret Vancouver<!--newline--><!--newline-->Lisa Robertson is really the underground queen of Canadian letters -- despite her Governor-General's award nomination in 1998.

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Spacing digs into Occasional Work

Review: Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture
By Lisa Robertson
Spacing
Winter 2007

I’ve always been happy to know that psycho-geographers, urban infiltrators, and other explorers of our cities are out there walking, climbing and scouring the hidden corners of this city and others.

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Seven Oaks Magazine reviews Soft Architecture

Review: Soft Architecture
By Rachel Johndrow
Seven Oaks
Feburary 1, 2007

Review: Soft Architecture

February 1, 2007

Rachel Johndrow

Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, by Lisa Robertson. Coach House Books (2003, 2006).

I adore little books. Small, compact, unobtrusive, inviting, humble. They fit in your back pocket, in your breast pocket, and weigh easily in one hand.

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Globe and Mail on The Office for Soft Architecture

Egghead burlesque
By Mark Cochrane
The Globe and Mail
October 7, 2006

Egghead burlesque

MARK COCHRANE

Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

By Lisa Robertson

Coach House, 274 pages, $19.95

When it first appeared from a fledgling U.S. press, this compendium of essays and flaneur's meditations on "civic surface," with its unwieldy title and seeming corporate authorship, drew scant attention from Canadian reviewers.

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Ottawa Xpress lauds The Office for Soft Architecture

Build it up, tear it down
By Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston
Ottawa Xpress
February 8 8800

Build it up, tear it down

Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston

Occasional Work and Seven Walks From the Office of Soft Architecture by Lisa Robertson (Coach House Press, 2006) 271 pp.

Lisa Robertson's erects ideas, while J. Edward Chamberlin never leaves the stables

Lisa Robertson's Occasional Work and Seven Walks From the Office of Soft Architecture is a compilation of themed essays and works probing the effects of architecture, surfaces and civic space.

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