Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Private Choices, Public Spaces
by Lori Brown
Field notes from Mississippi’s last remaining abortion clinic.
Issue 04, Instruments of Service
Private Choices, Public Spaces
by Lori Brown
Field notes from Mississippi’s last remaining abortion clinic.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Which Public?
By Quilian Riano
Conflict as catalyst.
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
Please Own a Piece of It
Dong-Ping Wong in conversation with Archie Lee Coates
Staying afloat with + POOL.
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
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
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
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
An Architecture of Collective Living
by Rafi Segal
A new neighborhood for Kibbutz Hatzor.
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
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
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
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.
Tuskegee
A memo.
Tesla
Colorado Springs, CO, United States.
Issue 03, Performance
The Performance of Form
by Brendan Moran
A cunning demonstation.
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
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
Under Electric Eyes
by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt
The futility of a home that serves nobody and needs no one.
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
How Do Geographic Objects Perform?
by Neyran Turan
Toward a new materialism.
Issue 03, Performance
The Subjects of Performance
by Neeraj Bhatia
Architecture and the open work.
Issue 03, Performance
To the Street
by Tanya Gershon
Passbooks, permits and the art of public life.
Issue 03, Performance
Domestic Homelessness
by Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco
New York’s shelter system, to the letter of the law.
Issue 03, Performance
A Catalog of Devices
by Patrick Joseph Craine
Adaptation through specificity.
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
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
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
Between Knowledge and Spectacle
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
Bioplastics!
by Meredith Miller
From the kitchen to the field.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Bit by Bit
by Els Verbakel
Real time urbanism.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
If The Dust Never Settles
By Phu Hoang, MODU
Uncontrolling weather control.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Rarely Seen Sleeping
by John Buonocore
Witnesses to a system long since established.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Niagora
by Jordan Geiger
The netherworld of the Phantom Tollbooth Plaza.
Issue 01, Test Subjects
Delaware Über Alles
By Jordan Carver
Inside a two-story, beige brick building.
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
Lab Overboard!
by Kate Orff
Piloting Oyster-tecture in the New York Harbor.
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.
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. […]
ARPA Journal – Applied Research Practices in Architecture Journal
ARPA Journal is a biannual digital publication that serves as a public forum for debate on applied research practices in architecture.
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 […]