Writing — Jasper Campshure

Selected Writing

The Economics of Guggenheim Skins

Short piece on the financial value of aesthetics
and its relation to the potential moral dilemma
of the architect, the Guggenheim as an example.
(Published in CLOG)

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Money and the Economic Factors
of Contemporary Architectural Production

An essay describing precisely how economics
operates on contemporary architectural
production.

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Taking the Long View with the ‘Minimum’:
Designing for Change in New Buildings

An investigation into why we don’t build
long-lasting buildings (from both a physical
and economic perspective), and how this
might change.
(Published in Harvard Journal of Real Estate)

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Toward an Historical Framework
of the Contemporary Megaproject

A search for the megaproject’s origins,
beginning in early twentieth century
architectural modernism in projects by each of
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig Hilberseimer and
Le Corbusier, in order to better understand
their contemporary forms.
(Published in Harvard Journal of Real Estate)

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