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Reinventing Airspace: Spectatorship, Fluidity, Intimacy At Pek T3., Alberto Pepe
Reinventing Airspace: Spectatorship, Fluidity, Intimacy At Pek T3., Alberto Pepe
Alberto Pepe
In this article, I explore the contemporary practice of air travel conceptualizing airports as socio-technical mobilities. Drawing both from the notion of “space” posited by Michel de Certeau and that of “non-place” by Marc Augé, I argue that the supermodern nature of air travel has generated forms of crisis that have embedded themselves in the architecture and the modus operandi of contemporary airports. Airports are necessarily located in a physical and tangible sense, yet their function is so tightly coupled with transience, mobility and spectatorship, that they bring anthropological accounts of “place” to unprecedented extremes. In this article, I analyze …
From Stoves To Juice Squeezers: Technology In The Modern Home, 1869-1999, Lauren Gallow
From Stoves To Juice Squeezers: Technology In The Modern Home, 1869-1999, Lauren Gallow
Lauren L. Gallow
“The factory and the household have only one factor in common, but a crucial one. Both must improve organization and curtail waste labor.” So Siegfried Giedion opens the chapter ‘Mechanization Encounters the Household’ in his 1948 seminal text, Mechanization Takes Command. Likening the household to the factory in its ever-present quest for organization and labor efficiency, Giedion places technological advancements at the center of this domestic mechanization, a progression that he identifies as beginning in the 1860s. Technology has played a central role in how writers from the late nineteenth century onwards have envisioned the home. Beginning with Catharine Beecher …
Aftermath: Alpha Chi Omega Sorority: Progress Materializes From Adversity, M. Monica Gillen
Aftermath: Alpha Chi Omega Sorority: Progress Materializes From Adversity, M. Monica Gillen
M. Monica Gillen
The role of an architect on any project is some combination of design, coordination and consultation. Every project is different as are the circumstances which surround them. In the case of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority, on the campus of the University of Iowa, Iowa City, the house was destroyed by a tornado that tore through town on Aprill3, 2006. Razing and rebuilding in the aftermath would require close coordination with the architect, builders, local building authorities and the Sigma Chapter members in effort to satisfy the various recovery criteria specific to the locale, including budget constraints, current building safety …