The Funambulist is an independent magazine and platform founded by French-American architect and writer Léopold Lambert in 2015. The publication examines the politics of space and bodies — how architecture and urban planning are used as instruments of power, control, and resistance. The name refers to the tightrope walker, and the metaphor is apt: the magazine navigates the narrow line between architectural theory and political activism, refusing to separate the two.
Each bimonthly issue is thematic, exploring subjects like carceral geographies, indigenous sovereignty, border walls, disability and space, or the architecture of colonialism — always through the intersection of spatial design and political struggle. Contributors include architects, activists, scholars, and writers from around the world, producing a publication that is genuinely international in scope and radical in its politics.
The design is bold and the writing is rigorous, reflecting a publication that takes its intellectual project seriously while remaining accessible to readers who are not architects. For anyone who wants to understand how the spaces we inhabit are shaped by power — and how power can be resisted through the redesign of space — The Funambulist is the magazine that makes the invisible structures of spatial politics visible, one issue at a time.
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