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
Property in the Digital Age of Architecture
by Wendy W Fok
An op-ed on open innovation.
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
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 04, Instruments of Service
An Online Roundtable
Curated by Jennifer W. Leung. Featuring Curt Gambetta, Mustafa Faruki, Lori Brown, Filip Tejchman, Michelle Fornabai, Wendy W. Fok, Meejin Yoon, McLain Clutter, Alan Smart, Magdalena Milosz, and Rafi Segal.
Tag-team commentary.
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
Owning the Sky
by Anab Jain and Jon Ardern, Superflux
An invisible architecture of civilian drones.
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
Value Slips Away
by Ryan John King and Ekaterina Zavyalova
Funding with foam and cryptocurrency.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
From Instrument to Evidence
by Magdalena Miłosz
Selections from an archive of assimilation.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Scaffold, Model, Metaphor
by Annabel Wharton
Models as agents in the world, from economics to the Barbie doll.
Iron Lung
Downey, CA, United States.
Issue 03, Performance
Choreographing Contingency
by Gabriel Fries-Briggs, Brendan Shea and Nicholas Pajerski of Reimaging
How to improvise with robots.
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 Design
A conversation with Juan Herreros
An instrument to simplify the world.
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
Clouds
By Leigha Dennis
A photo essay on the other kind of storage.
Issue 02, The Search Engine
Paper Time-Machine
By Jochen Hartmann of the Network Architecture Lab
Open mushware.
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
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
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
Knowledge Design
An interview with Jeffrey Schnapp
Doing history in real time.
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
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
Task Environment
An interview with Arindam Dutta
Architecture and the ‘Creative Economy.’
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Land of the Moving Mountains
by Alessandra Ponte with Stephan Kowal
Testing ground at 30 degrees below zero.
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. […]
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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 […]