1st Edition
Architecture and Progress Exploring a Progressively Problematic Built Environment
Introduction: Obstacles in Progress
Matt Hall and Mark Alan Blumberg
1. Ex, Est, Ut
Wes Jones
2. I Just Want to Say One Word to You, Just One Word: Plastics
Nathan Matteson
3. The Mediation of Doubt and the Doubt of Mediations
Michael Young
4. Drawing on History
Mustafa Faruki
5. Types and Specimens: Plants, Digital Assets, and Ecological World-Building in Spatial Design
Sonia Sabrino Ralston
6. The Panecillo of Quito in 1903: Resisting Modernity in the Andes
Cristina Bueno
7. Proving Grounds: Speculative Scenography and Staging the Future
Constance Vale
8. Atado con Alambre: The Alternative Production of Ingenious Architectures
Carolina Dayer and Jonathan Foote
9. Driven to Distraction
Matthias Altwicker
10. Syn(es)thetic Futures: Lessons from the Hermetically Sealed
Brian Ambroziak and Katherine Bambrick Ambroziak
11. Newer Babylons
Matt Hall
12. Unresolution: Fiction in the Space Between Inquiry and Invention
Mark Alan Blumberg
13. On Enemy Territory
Gregory Spaw and Patrick Rhodes
Biography
Mark Alan Blumberg is an Assistant Professor at the Auburn University College of Architecture Design and Construction, USA. Mark researches the spaces between cognition and representation through diagrams, and between abstraction and analysis in mapping. His interests in the urban scale and complexities serve as a connection between present environmental, cultural, and societal conditions and potential future outcomes of current decisions and practices.
Matt Hall is a Professor at the Auburn University College of Architecture Design and Construction, USA, and partner in the design firms Superunison and Obstructures. His work is concerned with the rift between intentions and consequences, the dilemmas of decision making, and the uncertain future contexts that all design is inevitably subject to. His is the co-editor of Lewerentz Fragments (Actar, 2021) and an A+U feature issue on Swedish architect Bernt Nyberg (2017), along with other publications on post-war Swedish architecture. He has lectured, published, and exhibited internationally on topics related to theory, criticism, and pedagogy.
