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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Toward Smart Dust
by Jonathan Sun and Carlo Ratti, SENSEable City Lab
Democratizing human health data.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Proof of Life
by Mustafa Faruki
An architecture for the instrumentalization of grief.
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
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
Smartness as Instrument
by Orit Halpern
Decision making and the legacy of the nervous net.
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 Productivity
A conversation with Craig Schwitter
Actually, we have extra.
Issue 03, Performance
To the Street
by Tanya Gershon
Passbooks, permits and the art of public life.
Issue 03, Performance
Menged Merkato
by Emanuel Admassu
A story of adaptable agency.
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 01, Test Subjects
Design Forward, Reverse Engineer
An interview with Cory Brugger
How Morphosis manages to take risks.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
If The Dust Never Settles
By Phu Hoang, MODU
Uncontrolling weather control.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Which Public?
By Quilian Riano
Conflict as catalyst.
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
Task Environment
An interview with Arindam Dutta
Architecture and the ‘Creative Economy.’
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Hypercapital
by David Zhai and Simon McGown
A backup city for Tokyo.
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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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 […]