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Occupation: Boundary; Art, Architecture, and Culture at the Water
ORO Editions, 2022
Book Design: Office of Luke Bulman
Co-Author with Cathy Simon
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This book examines the social, political, and cultural factors that have influenced the evolution of the urban waterfront. Reaching beyond the disciplines of architecture and urban design, Occupation : Boundary sheds light on the dual roles art and culture have played as mediums that both record and instigate change at the threshold of the city and the sea. Developing a close working relationship with Cathy Simon and learning of her life experiences, in particular those as a young female architect beginning practice in the 1970s, was integral to successful storytelling.
[TRANS-] FICTION
[Trans-] Journal, volume 6, CAPLA, 2020
University of Arizona, College of Architecture, Planning, & Landscape Architecture
Contributing Author
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Architecture may be said to originate from fictitious realms; imagined forms and abstract marks of representation materialize in space and time to tell stories through the distillation of ideas, by establishing perspectives, transforming information, and mapping cultural concerns. In its sixth iteration, [Trans-] Journal explores the relationship between fiction and architecture. This issue assumes an elastic definition of architecture as media that critically engages with design practice and the spatial realm. “Fiction Hoax Fiction” is a comparison of the untruths that emerge in the design process to those that emerge in contemporary crises, namely the 2020 pandemic and climate change.
In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism
Lars Müller Publishers, 2020
Co-Editor with Jeffrey Hogrefe, Scott Ruff, and Ashley Simone
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If African American experience emerges from the structure of slavery, how does architecture relate to that experience? Rather than seek affirmation from a Eurocentric discipline that has regulated and excluded them from its study and practice, African Americans have claimed space in unexpected locations. Essays from varied voices—contemporary architects, artists, and historians—remain distinct even as they are synthesized in this anthology of consciousness-evoking practices.
With contributions by Tina M. Campt, Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson, Radiclani Clytus, J. Yolande Daniels, Jeffrey Hogrefe, Ann S. Holder, Walis Johnson, Elizabeth J. Kennedy, Rodney Leon, Scott Ruff, Marisa Williamson
Grow the Future: Visions of Biodesign
Biodesign Challenge, 2022
Co-Editor with Daniel Grushkin
Designer: Chris Allen
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“Biodesign is centuries old, and at the same time, it’s of the future," writes Paola Antonelli in her piece that appears in Grow the Future, the compilation of projects and ideas at the forefront of the emerging field of biodesign. These 40 profiled projects were realized as part of the Biodesign Challenge, which, since its inception in 2016, has mobilized a worldwide community of artists, designers, biologists, and students to imagine, create, and critique the future of biotechnology. Essays by leaders in the field structure the book, as they explore the future of biodesign and its role in shaping people’s identities, cultures, and relationships with the living environment.
Contributors include: Paola Antonelli, Jane Pirone, Orkan Telhan, Corinne Takara, Pia Interlandi, William Myers, Ani Liu, Todd Kuiken, Christina Cogdell, Nandita Baxi Sheth, Whitney Gaskins, and Heather Dewey Hagborg.
The July 2021 issue of Biodesigned, titled Interspecies, features writers such as Joyce Hwang, an architect who takes on animals of all species, including humans, as clients. Biodesigned is an independent, not-for-profit publication produced by Biodesign Challenge.
In the Round, On the Flat
Pratt Institute School of Architecture, 2022
Associate Editor
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This volume documents In the Round, On the Flat, an exhibition of architectural models in the age of the digital image when material ideation and visual consumption frequently are confined to the flat space of the screen. The featured work traces evolving attitudes toward making and signals a shift in the culture of architectural representation that reflects the preoccupations of a digitally immersed society. Contributions of emerging and established practitioners include manually fabricated constructs and those conceived using new technology.
Making and Meeting (Working Title)
AXIOMATIC EDITIONS, an Imprint of ORO EDITIONS,
publishing date forthcoming
Editor
Formed by curiosity and a dedication to material expression, discourse, and making, MKCA challenges previously held notions of craft, collaboration, and practice. Themes that emerge in MKCA work speak to the firm’s values and therefore are difficult to parse or call out as distinct as they overlap and intertwine in a messy matrix. The book is not a monograph, although MKCA projects are starting points. Rather, by relying on multiple interdisciplinary voices, it offers direction to a new generation of makers.
Editorial Evaluation for the former Campus Architect
University of California Berkeley, 2023
Editor
Does a series of essays, some of which previously have been published, constitute a book? This is the question posed by this author and others who are embarking on a book exploration and request an editorial evaluation of their content. This particular author received feedback and suggestions that fell into the following categories: General Observations, Summaries of Texts, Overall Themes, Book Typologies, Images, and Notes on Style.