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Issue 03, Performance
By Default
by Forrest Meggers
Behind the modern curtain wall, and beyond the central stack.
Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
Harvesting Change
An interview with Sweet Water Foundation’s Emmanuel Pratt
How funding shapes work. How work shapes funding.
Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
Speculative
by Sara Stevens
Design and capital in the work of Gerald Hines.
Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
How to Not Squander People’s Money
by Masha Panteleyeva
A Soviet guide to funding transparency.
Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
Jumpstart Starter Homes
by Jonathan Tate and Travis Bost
Retaining value and reimagining idiosyncrasy where two markets meet.
Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
Ownership Unpacked
by Skylar Bisom-Rapp
Escaping the false binary between public and private property regimes.
Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
Towards Dematerialization
By Frédéric Schnee
Nicolas Schöffer’s Maison Spatiodynamique à Cloisons Invisibles.
Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
Patents, Agency, and Environment
by Richard L. Hindle
A history of innovation in physical infrastructure and large-scale complex systems.
Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
Social Impact Criticism
by Stephen Zacks
The use of influence for advocacy and production.
Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
Research Ransoms
Leah Meisterlin in conversation with Samantha Parsons from UnKoch My Campus
On expelling undue influence.
Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
The Professionalization of Interest
By Eric Wycoff Rogers
The National Municipal League and the rise of architectural expertise.
Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
Contingent Objectives
by Common Room
A statement on conducting conflict.
Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
Follow The Money
by Vittorio Lovato with Peggy Deamer, Quilian Riano, and Manuel Shvartzberg on behalf of The Architecture Lobby
Mapping prize funding for research in architecture.
draft
By Denise Scott Brown
What architecture offers to academia.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Inside Infrastructure
by Curt Gambetta
Ideologies of engagement, from anthropology to architecture.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Owning the Sky
by Anab Jain and Jon Ardern, Superflux
An invisible architecture of civilian drones.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Value Slips Away
by Ryan John King and Ekaterina Zavyalova
Funding with foam and cryptocurrency.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Second Skin
by Behnaz Farahi
A gaze-actuated, 3D printed garment.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Rules for Breaking In
by Alan Smart
Squatter handbooks as radical specifications.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Property in the Digital Age of Architecture
by Wendy W Fok
An op-ed on open innovation.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
A New Normal
by Filip Tejchman
Encyclopedias, reference manuals and the codification of disciplinary expertise.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Deleted
by Francesca Hughes
How the drawing that can’t forget forgot.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Scaffold, Model, Metaphor
by Annabel Wharton
Models as agents in the world, from economics to the Barbie doll.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Smartness as Instrument
by Orit Halpern
Decision making and the legacy of the nervous net.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Studio
by Denise Scott Brown
Architecture’s offering to academe.
Issue 03, Performance
Organic Algorithm, Organic Urbanism
by Travis Jared Marmarellis Bunt and Mathew Staudt, with Tat Lam and Timmie King Hong Tsang
Re-processing Beijing’s hutong villages.
Issue 03, Performance
Efficiency As Necessity
A conversation with Kersten Geers
An economy of means.
Issue 03, Performance
Efficiency As Productivity
A conversation with Craig Schwitter
Actually, we have extra.
Issue 03, Performance
Efficiency As Design
A conversation with Juan Herreros
An instrument to simplify the world.
Issue 03, Performance
A Folly for the Anthropocene
by Chris Perry
Not for ‘us’ alone.
Issue 03, Performance
Forensic Methodology
A symposium with speakers Orit Halpern, Andrés Jaque, Hod Lipson and Michael Sorkin. Organized by Esteban de Backer, David Isaac Hecht, Alejandro Stein and Che-Wei Yeh. Moderated by Janette Kim, Diana Martinez, Leah Meisterlin and Susanne Schindler.
How does architectural research work?
Issue 03, Performance
Efficiency As Behavior
A conversation with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Within limitations.
Issue 03, Performance
Efficiency As Integration
A conversation with Mahadev Raman
Triple bottom line.
Issue 03, Performance
Another Efficiency
by Esteban de Backer
The architecture of Pragmatism.
Issue 03, Performance
Domestic Homelessness
by Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco
New York’s shelter system, to the letter of the law.
Issue 02, The Search Engine
Paper Time-Machine
By Jochen Hartmann of the Network Architecture Lab
Open mushware.
Issue 02, The Search Engine
Winner Winner
By Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak
Gaming, surveillance, and the new, optimized city.
Issue 02, The Search Engine
Big Data, False Data, Smart Data, Dumb Data
By Nicole Lambrou
Measuring the human condition.
Issue 02, The Search Engine
The Epistemology of Search
An interview with David Joselit
Architecture after the ‘Era of Art.’
Issue 02, The Search Engine
Cloud Crystallizing
by Lydia Kallipoliti
A giant storage container of merchandize, data and waste.
Issue 02, The Search Engine
Counter Intuition
A conversation with Benedict Clouette
Searching on unstable ground.
Issue 02, The Search Engine
Knowledge Design
An interview with Jeffrey Schnapp
Doing history in real time.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
The Economy Of Research
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Five Ways to Fix an Energy Business
By Elliott P. Montgomery
Social measurement of the unlikely.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Design Forward, Reverse Engineer
An interview with Cory Brugger
How Morphosis manages to take risks.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Which Public?
By Quilian Riano
Conflict as catalyst.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Niagora
by Jordan Geiger
The netherworld of the Phantom Tollbooth Plaza.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Informed Speculation
by Rachel Armstrong
An ill-tempered foundation for Venice.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
The Minstrel’s Lab
by Lucía Jalón Oyarzun & Mateo Fernández-Muro
Taking steps to experiment upon ourselves.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Learning from Schools
By Gabu Heindl
Close a door, draw a line.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Everyone an Expert
by Andrés Jaque
On making Peter Eisenman transparent.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Sandbox Infrastructure
By Matthew Wisnioski and Kari Zacharias
Field notes from the arts research boom.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Screen Testing, Test Driving
by Jennifer W. Leung
Research as a place apart.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Land of the Moving Mountains
by Alessandra Ponte with Stephan Kowal
Testing ground at 30 degrees below zero.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
The City is Not a Lab
by Leah Meisterlin
How (not) to experiment in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
The Trouble with Certainty
by Avigail Sachs
An op-ed on the wickedness of application.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Masdar City’s Hidden Brain
by Gökçe Günel
When monitoring and modification collide.
Bibliography
A Aarts, Emile., Réné Collier, Evert van Loenen, and Boris de Ruyter, eds. Ambient Intelligence. Proceedings from the First European Symposium, EUSAI 2003, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, November 3–4, 2003 (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2003). Cited in Schnee. Aarts, Emile., Rick Harwig, and Martin Schuurmans, “Ambient intelligence.” The Invisible Future: The Seamless Integration of Technology into Everyday Life, ed. Peter J. […]
Contributors
EMILY ABRUZZO Contributor. Emily Abruzzo, AIA, LEED AP is partner in ABRUZZO BODZIAK ARCHITECTS, recipients of the 2010 Architectural League Prize, AIA New Practices New York 2012, and selected for the New York City Department of Design + Construction Excellence Program. She is a Fellow of The Forum and Institute for Urban Design, and a […]
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ISSUE 05 CONFLICTS OF INTEREST “Conflicts of interest” are said to compromise the impartiality of research, but what would it mean to be disinterested? Ethical codes warn us that researchers’ objectivity can be corrupted by a clashing set of interests—those of funding agencies, clients and publics, as well as researchers’ self-interest in […]
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MISSION Research is everywhere. Architects incite action, design materials and archive cities. They capitalize upon the excess energy of practice to launch unsolicited experiments into the world, or sidestep clients by joining forces with government think tanks. Discussions from classrooms have found currency at town halls, and findings from construction sites have migrated into basement […]