Books
A Slow Death, or the Silence of the Old World
by Alexander J. Ford and Jack R. Parnell
from PRAV Publishing
2024
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From the Publisher:
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It has been now two hundred thirty-one years since Edmund Burke wrote of the materialistic revolutionaries in France: “The age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.” The passage of time has long since rendered the verdict that those were vatic words rather than reactionary contrivances, nearer to the spirit of Cassandra than to those of the last Pisistratids.
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In A Slow Death or, the Silence of the Old World, Alexander Ford and Jack Parnell unveil a no-holds-barred assault on the citadels of Burke’s sophists, revealing that modernism and all of its progeny are essentially linguistic phenomena. What emerges from two centuries of academic haze is a lucid and elemental picture of the metaphysical disposition which defined the pre-industrial world. In this collection of swift essays and striking aphorisms, Nietzsche and Cioran talk to priests, Wittgenstein and Dugina face the eschaton, Krier and Evola critique consumerism, and Soviet and American Housing are haunted by the spirits of the home. A Slow Death is a dramatic confrontation too long in the making, an urgent questioning, and a radical answering.
Articles, and Periodicals
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by Alexander J. Ford
from Sparks of Calliope
2024
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​House, and Hubris
by Alexander J. Ford
in [ABouT] Journal, Volume 8: Home
from the University of Arizona
2023
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An Architecture of Apostasy
by Alexander J. Ford
in Verum Fictum, by Brian Delford Andrews
from Culicidae Architectural Press
2021
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Contact 67 Cenotaph
by Apologue
in Single-Handedly, by Nalina Moses
from Princeton Architectural Press
2019
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Contributions to Fulmen Quarterly:
Palantír, and Luciferian Stone - 2025
Digitus Infamis - 2024
Architecture, Theurgy, and Human Sacrifice - 2024
On the Olympian Heraion - 2023
The Hand of Sabazios - 2023
Digitus Index - 2022
Divination With the Hands, II - 2022
Divination With the Hands, I - 2022
Architectural Symbolism of the Scepter - 2022
Maid, Mage, and Tower - 2021
Prior Publications:
in PLAT Journal, Volume 8.5 tl;dr - 2020
in Fresh Meat Journal, Volume XI: Direct Messages - 2020
in Inflection Journal, Volume 05: Data Streams - 2019
in [TRANS]- Journal, Volume 04: Media - 2019
in INTaR Journal, Volume 08: Water as Catalyst - 2017
from International Competitions in Architecture, 15 Houses - 2012
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Lectures
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​Cult Posts in Anglo Saxon Ritual Space
by Alexander J. Ford
for the N/EMICS lecture series: Trees in the Medieval Imaginary
at the University of London's Birkbeck Research Institute
2019
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Contact 67 Cenotaph
by Alexander J. Ford
for the Slide Slam lecture series
at the University of Arizona's College of Architecture
2019​
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Exhibitions
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Single-Handedly: Contemporary Architects Draw by Hand
at Art Omi's Newmark Gallery, in New York
Contact 67 Cenotaph
by Apologue
2020
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Biennial 600: Architecture
at the Amarillo Museum of Art, in Texas
PHX2065
by Blank Studio Architects
2017
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Awards
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First Prize [ARCAS Choice]
from INTBAU Belgium, and La Table Ronde De l'Architecture
for the Church Street Shotgun House
2025
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Raphael Award
from Traditional Building
for a View of the North Quad at Hillsdale College
2024
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Columbia University's Fitch Prize
for Terrace on the Park,
by Alexander J. Ford and Nicholas Gervasi
2016
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First Prize
Phoenix AIA Metro's Make a Place competition
for PHX2065
by Blank Studio Architects
2015
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