Engage The User


Architecture’s failure to satisfy new human behaviors has drawn individuals to places free of familiarity in order to manifest their sublimated desires, seeking not nature or its memory, but that of the industrial, waste and construction sites to engage our imagination. These minimal zones are the new public spaces of tomorrow, writes Kurt Franz.

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To Deny Nature: Bio-Arts and the Post-Natural Post-Human Landscape


Meghan Evans and Helen Frichot ask what benefits, insights, innovations and collaborations exist for the architectural arts to shape a world where science, medicine and technology dominate and direct the possibilities of the future

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Proof of Memory Lies in Architecture


John N. Blias-C discusses ancient Greek mnemonic techniques and the role of place in memory.

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Cities Made for Drifting


Emma Jones explores the concept of cities and memory, and in particular, the idea of the street as the repository of a collective urban memory, using the city of Paris and Situationist International as an example.

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NOTHING THERE: Uncovering density in Baltimore’s vacant lots through the aggregation of suppressed ecological systems


Baltimore, Maryland is one example of a city in which development has disconnected residents from their natural surroundings. Adrienne Lyon explains how new urban vacancies give Baltimore the opportunity to establish new (forgotten) interactions between city and nature.

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