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There Is No Distance Between Ourselves and Our Deserts Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Nora Wendl
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 2, 2023)
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The Desert Has Everything Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Faysal Tabbarah
This essay is constructed as a constellation of episodes composing a brief history of the Orientalist discourse focused on dryness as a condition of either ruin or inferiority. The deliberately fra...
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Desert Depths Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Piper Bernbaum, Zach Colbert
This studio course engages the thresholds, constructs, and narratives of the Negev/Naqab Desert and uses critical architectural practice to counter settler colonial perceptions of emptiness and uns...
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Dry Matters Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Danika Cooper
“Dry Matters” describes a dual interest. The phrase reminds designers that drylands are active contributors to our collective futures and advocates for an expanded material palette to design resili...
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In Conversation with Salima Naji Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Interview by Ersela Kripa, Francesco Marullo, Stephen Mueller
Salima Naji is a registered architect (Paris La Villette School of Architecture, Paris) with a PhD in social anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She is based in Moro...
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Mirages of Emptiness in Samburu, North Central Kenya Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Brendan O’Neill, Samantha L. Martin
To a newcomer, Samburu, northern Kenya, may first appear as a vast, uninhabited landscape—a reddish, arid flatland punctuated by umbrella acacia trees. The vistas are expansive, occasionally termin...
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The Sheikh’s Castle Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Margaret Freeman
This narrative discusses the use of architecture as a mechanism of control over territories, resources, and peoples in the Jordanian desert during the period of interwar British Mandatory rule. The...
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Deserts Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Ersela Kripa, Francesco Marullo, Stephen Mueller
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 2, 2023)
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The Desert We Eat Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Seth Denizen
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 2, 2023)
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Repertoire as Infrastructure for Architectural Historiographical Crafts in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Julien Lafontaine Carboni
This article retraces a discussion with Gurba M. L., a Sahrawi activist who participated in building the refugee camp of Smara near Tindouf, Algeria, and Lahsen S. S. B, a Sahrawi researcher and co...
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Tracking Across the American Desert Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Andy Lee
This paper explores the remapping of the American landscape as a mass reproducible visual medium onto foreign territories - particularly Afghanistan - during the Cold War. A series of films produce...
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Man Made Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Gabrielle Printz
This essay traverses linked scales of development by DuPont, centering on its Iranian joint venture, Polyacryl Iran Corporation. This brief episode of petrochemical development took place where the...
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In Conversation with Gonzalo Pimentel Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Interview by Ersela Kripa, Francesco Marullo, Stephen Mueller
Gonzalo Pimentel, PhD, is an anthropologist and archaeologist researcher at the University of Tarapacá, Chile. He is the founder and current president of the Atacama Desert Heritage Foundation (FDA...
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JAE 77:2 Issue PDF Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 2, 2023)
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Food Desert Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Patty Heyda
This essay explores the term ‘desert’ in the context of urban redevelopment. The essay draws out the contradictions of our contemporary planning condition that enables a massive new food distributi...
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Cactus Obsession Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Ivan L. Munuera
In the interwar period in Europe, cacti emerged as significant architectural devices that challenged traditional notions of architecture, offering an alternative understanding of the discipline whi...
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Desert Dreams and Techno-Utopian Nightmares Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Ezgi İşbilen
Despite being some of the harshest environments to design for and inhabit, deserts are considered some of the most malleable in our imagination. Countless military bases, proving grounds, gunneries...
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Conquest(s) of the Desert Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Dante Furioso
The historical concept of the “desert” is both cultural and geographic in Argentina, connecting nineteenth-century territorial conquest to twentieth-century public works projects. Between 1936 and ...
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Displacements of Mohammed Abdalah During His Life Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Alvaro Velasco Perez
Contemporary discourse on the desert challenges colonial approaches to this landscape, yet there is a risk of remaining within an imperial theoretical framework. Departing from the dichotomy of “sm...
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Correction Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-05-09
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 2, 2023)
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A Dilemma of Inheritance Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Nora Wendl
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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Reparations! Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 V. Mitch McEwen, Cruz Garcia, Nathalie Frankowski
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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Dream The Combine, Masks, Minneapolis, 2020 Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Jennifer Newsom, Tom Carruthers
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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Black Quantum Futurism Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Rasheedah Phillips
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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Holding the Future Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 V. Mitch McEwen, Cruz Garcia
Rasheedah Phillips is a queer housing advocate, parent, writer, interdisciplinary artist, and cultural producer. Phillips' writing and artwork has appeared in The Funambulist Magazine, e-flux Architecture, Flash Art Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, Recess Arts, and more. Phillips is the founder of The AfroFuturist Affair, founding member of Metropolarity Queer Speculative Fiction Collective, co-founder
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“Soul and T-Square” Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Rebecca Choi
By reconsidering the Watts Urban Workshop’s architectural proposals for funding from President Johnson’s Model Cities Program, an outbranch of his 1964 War on Poverty, this microhistory outlines feasible architectural visions of reparations in 1970s Watts, Los Angeles. While most histories of the War on Poverty consider Johnson’s concept of “maximum feasible participation” as a driving force of self-help
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Conservation as Reparations Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Gorham Bird
The Julius Rosenwald Schools, built across the segregated American South, had generational impact. This narrative explores this educational initiative’s investment in rural Black communities, the design of Black schools by Black architects for Black communities, and a current conservation project as an act of generational repair and reparation. The Rosenwald Schools embody the resilience and self-determination
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On Reparations and the Possibility of Other Systems Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Nathalie Frankowski, Cruz Garcia
Mabel O. Wilson teaches architecture and African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University, where she also serves as the Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies. With her practice Studio &, she was a member of the design team that recently completed the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia. Wilson has authored Begin with the Past:
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Toward Reparative Design Pedagogies Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Lily Song
This essay explores reparative design pedagogies to advance intersecting racial justice and climate goals through the case study of the “CoDesign Field Lab: Black Belt Study for the Green New Deal.” Through engaged community design processes with Afro-descendant communities in the Black Belt South, the design action research seminar sought to reimagine and future the region as fount and staging ground
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Spatializing Reparations Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Danika Cooper
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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Economies and Circuits of Repair: On Reparative Justice Within/Beyond the State Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Desirée Valadares
Jovan Scott Lewis is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies Black people’s lived experience of racial capitalism and underdevelopment in Jamaica and Tulsa, Oklahoma, through analyses of injury, violence, repair, debt, and reparations. He is the author of Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (University of
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Dream The Combine, Shadow, Minneapolis, 2022 Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Jennifer Newsom, Tom Carruthers
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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Bad Bodies Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Samiha Meem
Death takes up space, but not all bodies have clear access to it. Muslim Americans routinely face prejudicial, and often arbitrary, community and institutional opposition to proposals for Islamic cemeteries. These proposals intend to address the overwhelming deficit of local denominational plots, the desolate conditions of their existing death spaces, and typological collisions with the nation’s dominant
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Lessons from the Black Indigenous Atlantic Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Thabisile Griffin
In the eighteenth century, an African-Indigenous population in the Caribbean effectively prevented large-scale European enclosure on their island. Termed the “Black Caribs” within British primary documents, they retained control over St. Vincent, refusing to let the fate of the island succumb to systems of enslavement and plantocracies of the colonial imagination. Their refusal to accept defeat, even
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How to Establish Value Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 V. Mitch McEwen, Cruz Garcia
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a scholar of anti-Black racism, public policy, radical politics and social movements. She has written three award-winning books, including Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (2019), which was a semi-finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2020. In 2021, Taylor was awarded
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Seeking Redress Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Nate Imai, Matthew Okazaki
Little Tokyo in Los Angeles has long been a community for Japanese immigrants and Japanese American citizens. Since its founding, Little Tokyo has been met with significant external resistance from individuals, organizations, the government, and legislation to curb its growth and reduce its footprint. This narrative focuses on the century-long resistance to these efforts and the continued strength
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Fugitive Practice Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Jerome W. Haferd, Curry J. Hackett
The surprise and longevity of the COVID-19 pandemic and current sociopolitical climate have exposed critical oversights of systemic transgression, particularly in education. The course “Fugitive Practice: Introduction, Recentering, and Exploration of Black and Indigenous Design Methods” was part of the emergent effort toward redressing and repairing the climate of the school classroom, which often
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To Enter the Crater Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Cruz Garcia
Sean Connelly is a Pacific Islander American artist in Honolulu, O‘ahu where he/they were born and still live and work. Connelly creates work that focuses on material, place, and time. They work primarily in sculpture, architecture, and installation, but are also active in experimental cartography, filmmaking, design theory, architectural history, urban sociology, land planning, data analysis, and
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Riotous Repertoire Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Jovan Scott Lewis
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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The Smallest Twine May Lead Me Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Joseph Rushmore
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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Notes Toward a Critical Race Practice of Preservation Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Marisa Angell Brown
Over the last fifty years, Critical Race Theory (CRT) has become pivotal to legal, political, and educational theory and practice. What are its implications for the field of historic preservation (and why aren’t preservationists asking this question)? This essay examines preservation practice through the lens of CRT, articulating a series of questions and provocations that require attention as the
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Trouble With the Word ‘Repair’ Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 V. Mitch McEwen, Cruz Garcia
Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers are partners in work and life who founded Dream The Combine in Minneapolis, MN in 2013. They are now based between there and Ithaca, NY. Their work consists of site-specific installations that probe the section of an image. They aim to complicate regimes of visuality through methods that introduce perceptual uncertainty in embodied experience, and manipulate the boundary
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Commentary on the Apocalypse Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Joseph Rushmore
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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Measuring What Matters Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Linda C. Samuels, Bomin Kim
For nearly eighty years, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has done its mapping—everything from the surface of the moon to the compound hiding Osama bin Laden—from the city of St. Louis. In 2017, this federal agency pitted three regional sites against each other in the competition to host their new billion-dollar headquarters. Two years later, a site of nearly one hundred acres of “underdeveloped
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When You are Critical Mass Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 V. Mitch McEwen
Tina Campt is the Roger S. Berlind ‘52 Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She holds a joint appointment between the Department of Art and Archeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts. She is a founding researcher of Black European studies, as well as the lead convenor of the Practicing Refusal Collective and the Sojourner Project. Campt has published five books—Other Germans: Black Germans
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Guerrilla Maneuvers in Architectural Preservation Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Gabriel Cira, Kris Manjapra
The 2018–2023 architectural preservation process of a historic Black church in Massachusetts demonstrates a set of socio-architectural tactics identified as guerrilla preservation, or small maneuvers in pursuit of exuberance. These are shown to be both necessary in dealing with existing structures of power, property, and funding and also necessary in responsibly unpacking difficult layers of history
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Dream The Combine, Burn It Again, Minneapolis, 2022 Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Jennifer Newsom, Tom Carruthers
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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JAE 77:1 Issue PDF Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2023-04-13
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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“…where one might truly catch their breath.” Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Nora Wendl
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 76, No. 2, 2022)
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Pedagogies for a Broken World Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Jay Cephas, Igor Marjanović, Ana Miljački
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 76, No. 2, 2022)
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This Is for Everyone Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Jay Cephas, Igor Marjanović, Ana Miljački
After founding and directing the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg, and briefly leading The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York, Lesley Lokko founded the African Futures Institute (AFI) in Accra, Ghana, in the spring of 2021. The AFI is a physical, digital and conceptual laboratory of the future. It offers a new model of education
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African Futures Institute Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Lesley Lokko, on behalf of African Futures Institute
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 76, No. 2, 2022)
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Rewilding (at) Sakiya Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Nida Sinnokrot, on behalf of Sakiya
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 76, No. 2, 2022)
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Unseen Matters Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Lisa C. Henry, Tonia Sing Chi, Shawhin Roudbari, Bz Zhang, on behalf of Dark Matter University
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 76, No. 2, 2022)
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Unsettling Architecture’s Commonsense Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Ross Adams, Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco, Olga Touloumi, on behalf of Bard College
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 76, No. 2, 2022)
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Beyond Capitalism? Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Frank Burridge, Aaron Cayer, Kirsten Day, Peggy Deamer, Andrea Dietz, Jessica Garcia Fritz, Palmyra Geraki, Daniel Jacobs, Valérie Lechêne, Natalie Leonard
Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 76, No. 2, 2022)
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The Common Wind of Worldlessness Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Jay Cephas, Igor Marjanović, Ana Miljački
Through their longstanding collaboration, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney have written several important books on the intersections of race, capitalism, and knowledge. On March 11, 2022, Igor Marjanović and Ana Miljački sat down to talk to Moten and Harney (via Zoom) about a range of topics from their influential book The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study, including the questions of debt
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Our Infrastructural Loves Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Hélène Frichot, Adrià Carbonell, Hannes Frykholm, Sepideh Karami
Embracing a critical pedagogy of care and support in the teaching and learning environment of the architectural design studio, this essay discusses ways in which architecture can be reimagined via infrastructural love. By exploring infrastructural support systems we seek other ways of situating architectural design amidst contemporary environmental, social, and political crises. We have undertaken
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The Paradox of Invisibility Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Adnan Z. Morshed
Teaching architectural history with a commitment to social justice presents an epistemological challenge for two key reasons. First, the spatialization of social justice is irredeemably political, raising the question as to how to discuss politics in the classroom. Second, how does an educator articulate an ethical framework within which to situate histories of injustice and exclusion in the realm
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Building Indigenous Resistance Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy
This paper studies the transformation of urban architecture into a vehicle for Indigenous resistance. Focusing on the (re)appropriation of institutional spaces, my case study is the former seat of the Instituto Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas, arguably part of the apparatus of assimilation of the Mexican nation-state. On October 12, 2020, the Indigenous Otomí Community CdMx took over the building