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Technology
05.13.13: Belmont Freeman
Digital DeceptionOn Places, Belmont Freeman argues it's time to grapple with the artistic and professional consequences — and ethical dilemmas — of today's ever more powerful digital rendering technologies.
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01.08.13: Adelheid Fischer
What Falls to HandOn Places, Adelheid Fischer examines the potential of jugaad — the Indian practice of doing more with less — to "frame a global philosophy of sustainable innovation,"
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11.13.12: Barbara Penner
“We shall deal here with humble things”On Places, Barbara Penner considers the design, culture and politics of the bathroom — and how "this smallest of domestic rooms is linked to the larger worlds of engineering and infrastructure."
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11.08.12: Josh Wallaert
State of the CommonsOn Places, Josh Wallaert reviews the Wiki Loves Monuments USA photography contest — and highlights the increasing privatization of our infrastructure of public information.
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06.07.12: Lance Hosey
The Shape of Green: Aesthetic ImperativesOn Places, Lance Hosey explores the relationship of sustainability to technology and aesthetics.
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05.14.12: Keith Eggener
The Uses of DaylightOn Places, Keith Eggener casts new light on the little-known Boley Building in Kansas City, by Louis Curtiss, which featured one of the first glass curtain walls in America.
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04.10.12: Jerry Herron
The Last PedestriansOn Places, Jerry Herron traces the intersecting lives of architect Albert Kahn, artist Diego Rivera and industrialist Edsel Ford — and how they all shaped the visioin of Detroit as industrial powerhouse.
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03.21.12: Hadley Arnold & Peter Arnold
Drylands: Water and the WestOn Places, an essay and slideshow by Peter Arnold and Hadley Arnold of the Arid Lands Institute, on what they call "the largest and least understood environmental challenge of the 21st century."
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03.12.12: Stan Allen
The Future That Is NowOn Places, Stan Allen assesses architecture education in North America during the past two decades of rapid and profound technological and social change.
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07.11.11: Mark Klett & Aaron Rothman
Views Across TimeOn Places, an interview with photographer Mark Klett and a slideshow from his ongoing rephotography project, with views across time of the American West.
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06.09.10: Mitchell Schwarzer
A Sense of Place, A World of Augmented Reality: Part 2On Places, in the second installment of his two-part essay, architectural historian Mitchell Schwarzer argues that augmented reality, combined with social networking, is bringing about "nothing less than a new epoch of social relations."
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06.08.10: Mitchell Schwarzer
A Sense of Place, A World of Augmented Reality: Part 1On Places, in the first of two-part essay, architectural historian Mitchell Schwarzer argues that digital technology, especially the real-time, mediating imageries of augmented reality, are revolutionizing how we perceive and inhabit place.
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