Features
Closing Shots From An Editor
Cultural Triage and The Demise of the Non Profit
Emilio Ambasz Fables
Larping Adulthood: Freeville to Midlands
Artists Books from The Atlanta School
AIDS Art Action
Constructing the Environmental Imaginary
The American Garden in Nineteenth-Century Canton
Architecture and Sufficiency:
A Case Study in Applied History
The history of architecture and sufficiency suggests a porosity in the rigid distinctions that have characterized the field’s erstwhile attentions, which so often focus upon heroic figures engaged in the development of progressive design techniques. It turns instead to a chronologically heterogeneous array of climate and solar design strategies—regionally specific and culturally conditioned—that have emerged over a much longer period, and with less attention to formalist pedigrees, to consider design methods for life after fossil fuels.
Letters to My Friends: Indigenous Land as Monument
Being an academic, I am often more interested in ideas than in the visceral. The idea of what creates a visceral reaction, the how, the why, the what, and then what transpires, preoccupies my busy mind. My therapist prescribed returning to my body, in any way that I can. So, a monument really has to be something to grab my attention.