Category: Issue 01 – Destruction

• A Dwelling for a Man and His Daughter

  Last semester in ARC 107, our studio class was tasked with creating a dwelling inspired by spatial logics of a precedent house. From my precedent, the CIEN House, I utilized… more ›

• Farming Depot City – A New Urban Food Production System

  Farming Depot City is conceptualized as a radical solution and a contested urban fantasy. Through provocatively choreographing the food system and public participation on a limited site footprint, the project… more ›

• EPHEMERAL STRUCTURES

  LA F[i]ESTA, 2025 Directed ResearchInstructors: Palladino, ValdevenitoWritten by Corrine Soo LA F[i]ESTA: EPHEMERAL STRUCTURES is a collaborative, design-build project led by faculty members, Rosita Palladino and Magdalena Valdevenito, and twelve… more ›

• Interview with Hermine Demaël

  This interview was conducted by Anita Yasinska, a 1st year Architecture Student, in conversation with Hermine Demaël, a professor at the Syracuse University School of Architecture. Within this interview, Demael… more ›

• Diagnosis and Healing of the Postwar WastelandThe Mirror of Modernity

  “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?”— The Grimm Brothers’ Fairy Tales. After the guns of the World Wars had fallen silent, Sigmund Freud’s consulting… more ›

• Architecture’s Life Cycle: Birth, Death, and Rebirth in Metabolism

  The life cycle in which architecture undergoes, is parallel to the one in which humans have seen for centuries. Life begins at birth for humans, and ends in death. When… more ›

• Destroying Space: Core Aesthetics

  Most of us, while scrolling over the internet, would at some point encounter one of these odd images, typically featuring the snapshot of a place that triggers an uncanny sensation.… more ›

• Stairwell Between

  “Part I: Spiralling” Hidden inside Slocum’s School of Architecture, where weary-eyed students pay to rush deadlines, stairs many walked up to Studio just as we do, the bustling occupants sweating… more ›

• Schools Designed as Combat Zones: How Preparing for the Worst-Case Scenario Makes it the New Norm

  In the United States, as of 2024, there is an average of one school shooting every other week of the school year. With these issues prevalent and gun control laws… more ›