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The Stubbornness of Space Architecture and Design Special Issue JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015 39/01 US $7 CAAN $9 UK £66 EUU €8 Architecture andDesignspecialissue The StubbornnessofSpace ART PAPERS ART 3 Multiple 48 Strange Shapes Letter from the GuestGuest EditorEditor david reinfurt (o-r-g) mtwtf This issue is aboutout spacespacece andan place, and various What does it mean to make One person one vote — sort of. attempts to engagegage or overcomeoverovercc them. In my old an artist’s multiple now? A design commission considers neighborhood inn SanSan Francisco,Franciranciss controversy roils over A software commission. the geometry of gerrymandering. rising rents, no-faultfault evictions,evictioctionn and clashing cultures, as Silicon Valleyy companiesanies move northward into a 14 Logistics Make the World 50 The Knoll Transcripts historically diverserse city. BeyBeyoBeyondo issues of gentrifica- jesse lecavalier margot weller tion, or the neighborlinesshborlinessess ofof corporations, the conflict has improbable roots inn the region.r Fred Turner’s book Synchronizing the world of Previously unpublished From Counterculture1ulture too CybercultureCyCybb (2006) charts commerce means attempting interviews with Knoll designers the evolution from the Bay Area communes of the to overcome time and space. revise the story of midcentury 1960s to the Silicon Valley of the 1990s. This evolution A study of logistics with a photo modernism. was premised on a belief in the power of networked essay on UPS. information technologies to emancipate users from 58 Concept Models body and physical space — if sometimes to the ne- 22 Losing Interest allied works architecture glect of the social, political, and environmental infra- shumon basar structures that support them. Turner’s social critique Beyond site or program, these has new salience in a moment of social media. A letter in response to a request models focus the minds of Our networks today, far from evenly distributed, to write about architecture. designers and communicate are by turns empowering, exploitative, galvanizing viscerally with clients. for activism, surveillant, and emotionally exhausting, 24 TV University, ca. 1964 as we project joy, empathy or moral outrage to ever john harwood more places from afar. It is now a truism that there is REVIEWS nothing immaterial about “the cloud,” with its massive Sol Cornberg, a forgotten physical support systems, and little that’s intrinsically architect of media, harnessed Books neutral about the net. What are the infrastructures on telepresence — first in the 61 Extrastatecraft which we rely, and who are their architects, figura- name of commerce, then in the carson chan tive and literal? In what ways do the facts on — and name of the Enlightenment. of — the ground still matter? As a magazine based in 62 Bauhaus Weaving Theory the South with a global reach, ART PAPERS has long 32 Typographic Fictions rachel silveri asked these kinds of questions. And the logics of erik brandt design and architecture can venture answers, making 63 Photographic Architecture these structures visible or building them anew. Brandt’s Minneapolis garage esher choi In this issue, Jesse LeCavalier surveys the space- has become a global platform defying architecture of logistics, alongside a photo for experimental graphic design. Exhibitions essay on UPS, the logistics giant and ART PAPERS’ 65 Amie Siegel: Provenance Atlanta neighbor. John Harwood introduces a midcen- 34 Open Architecture in rattanamol singh johal tury architect of telepresence, intent on obviating the Berlin-Kreuzberg physical college campus. Esra Akcan considers the esra akcan 66 Fin de Siècle spaces made for and by Turkish “guest workers” in gregor quack Berlin, and Shumon Basar surveys the state of archi- A public housing exhibition in tecture from a perch inside one of these spaces. For 1980s Berlin stands out not just 67 Beyond the Supersquare our glossary, Barry Bergdoll redefines the media of for its famous architectural cast, elis mendoza architectural exhibitions. Along the way we consider but for inviting future residents the art market’s own efficient logistics (Johal), the into the design process. 68 The Space Between ubiquity of “infrastructure space” (Chan), the stub- stephanie bailey bornness of political space (MTWTF), and the dark 42 On Vernacular Computing side of design as both power and resistance (King). jacob gaboury 69 Design and Violence Julian Bittiner guest designed this issue in a new Disobedient Objects format, and created two custom typefaces for it. The A manifesto confronts the ways emily king body text and titles are based on Karl Gerstner’s 1967 we actually use technology. Program, which recalls the Swiss modernist’s system- ic, proto-software practice, despite never having been 44 Total Reset 72 Glossary: Curate released digitally. In contrast, as a kind of address karen kubey barry bergdoll number for each page, folios and section headers are based on an alphabet by Edward Wright, designed Ideas for affordable housing A re-definition releases some hot for a commemorative stone at the Imperial College from the Institute for Public air from the cult of the curator. London in 1958. Wright collaborated with architects Architecture. of the Independent Group and New Brutalism on both typographic murals and publications. As the architec- tural historian Craig Buckley notes, Wright saw both of these as “graphic constructions,” or spaces at the boundary between material and information. We hope you enjoy this graphic construction. 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