Category: Issue 02 – Invasive Typologies

• Skid Row: Between Containment and Gentrification

  As the sun slowly disappears beyond the horizon, apartment windows in Los Angeles glow with the nighttime rituals of families gathering inside the comfort of familiar walls. Only a few… more ›

• Modernism and Disconnect

  A Critique of Convenience Intimacy is not a convenient thing. It requires tedious observation, responsiveness, and sensitivity to change. To feel close and connected with something means to take longer… more ›

• No Take Backs: Highways and Their Destruction of American Communities

  Introduction  In the United States, Highways are the arteries of the nation. With this country’s distinct lack of public transit that is found in many other first-world nations, we are… more ›

• Rotting Simulacra

  “Rotting simulacra” traces humanity’s architectural estrangement from nature through ten conceptual stages. An elegiac reading of Jean Baudrillard’s 1981 book Simulacra and Simulation, the poem-article hybrid describes the genealogy of… more ›

• JunkSpace

  Architecture that is ubiquitous and transplantable across any environment or context, despite its adaptability, is vacant of expression. The Manifesto “Junk Space” by Rem Koolhaas explores this post extracted world… more ›

• Built to Watch

  Surveillance is not only a network of cameras and data systems—it is built into architecture. Buildings, streets, and urban layouts shape how people move, behave, and interact. Through visibility, circulation,… more ›

• It’s All A Mess

  Introduction to the Global Market Econ 101 There lies the field of flora, of all of Nature’s creation; the blossoms are the few ephemeral pleasures existing in the strangest of… more ›

• ARCHITECTURAL BEINGS

  A SISYPHIUS WITH A SOLAR ANUS, UNDER A NEO-LIBERALIST STRUCTURE ABSTRACTThe minds of architectural scholars and workers have always been systematically invaded-in subject to a structural pressure that functions through… more ›

• Colonialism In Mesoamerican Architecture

  When reflecting upon what we understand about colonialism, the erasure of Mesoamerican architecture is often overlooked as being an effect of colonialism, not a simultaneous change that rippled through Spanish… more ›

• The Profane Night and Sacred Altars

  Profane Night Night has been a perpetual trouble to human settlement, with night representing at first danger from animals, and then later from people, where it anonymized and provided cover.… more ›