Issue 03, Performance
Efficiency As Design
A conversation with Juan Herreros
An instrument to simplify the world.
Issue 03, Performance
Efficiency As Design
A conversation with Juan Herreros
An instrument to simplify the world.
Issue 03, Performance
How Do Geographic Objects Perform?
by Neyran Turan
Toward a new materialism.
Issue 02, The Search Engine
Knowledge Design
An interview with Jeffrey Schnapp
Doing history in real time.
Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
Contingent Objectives
by Common Room
A statement on conducting conflict.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Toward Smart Dust
by Jonathan Sun and Carlo Ratti, SENSEable City Lab
Democratizing human health data.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Rules for Breaking In
by Alan Smart
Squatter handbooks as radical specifications.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Bit by Bit
by Els Verbakel
Real time urbanism.
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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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 […]
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
How to Not Squander People’s Money
by Masha Panteleyeva
A Soviet guide to funding transparency.
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
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.
Issue 05, Conflicts of Interest
They Grow Without Us
by Joseph Dahmen and Amber Frid-Jimenez of AFJD
Mycelium architecture and ecologies of practice.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Zero Tolerance
by J. Meejin Yoon and Eric Höweler, Höweler + Yoon Architecture
Design and delivery of the MIT Collier Memorial.
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
Hacking Geodemography
by McLain Clutter with Matt Kenyon
Reversing the self-fulfilling prophecies of Big Data.
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
Proof of Life
by Mustafa Faruki
An architecture for the instrumentalization of grief.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
From Instrument to Evidence
by Magdalena Miłosz
Selections from an archive of assimilation.
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
Private Choices, Public Spaces
by Lori Brown
Field notes from Mississippi’s last remaining abortion clinic.
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
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 02, The Search Engine
Winner Winner
By Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak
Gaming, surveillance, and the new, optimized city.
Issue 02, The Search Engine
Engine Trouble
by Garrett Ricciardi and Julian Rose of Formlessfinder
An in-house, open-source wiki, an architect’s data and graphic standards, a product catalog and materials database, and a visualizer.
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 01, Test Subjects
Bioplastics!
by Meredith Miller
From the kitchen to the field.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Which Public?
By Quilian Riano
Conflict as catalyst.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Informed Speculation
by Rachel Armstrong
An ill-tempered foundation for Venice.
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.
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. […]