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We publish peer-reviewed work, gathered under the thematic umbrellas Matter, Discipline, Plots, and Systems. (You can read more about what we publish here.) We also post announcements about events and publications in our field by request.
We announce the publication of new work via our email list (sign up here) and on our Twitter feed. We invite proposals for projects that would benefit from collaborative editing and transparent peer review, and look forward to comments and questions.
Plots
Work in the PLOTS umbrella considers the relationships between architecture, economy, and territory. As instruments and products of capital, buildings and architectural practices have the capacity to reinforce, interrupt, and reconfigure economic systems. Through drawing, mapping, writing and other forms of analysis, PLOTS aims to develop new methods, theories and histories of this capacity. We collect and cultivate research at the intersections of capitalism studies, architectural studies and geography, seeking new openings in conversations about property, public and private space, subjectivity, debt, real estate, and political economy.
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Meredith TenHoor
Jonathan Massey
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Resource Histories
Jonathan Massey, Meredith TenHoor
What new questions and methods emerge when architectural history engages resources such as energy, capital, information, and expertise? Resource Histories explores how an architectural participation in systems, infrastructures, and practices shape governmentality and biop...
Resource Histories Symposium
Jonathan Massey, Meredith TenHoor
Just-So Stories in Real Estate History, or, How the Apartment Tower Got Its Glass Skin
(Peer-reviewed)Sara Stevens
Black Lives Matter
Meredith TenHoor, Jonathan Massey
Inspired by the scholars, activists, and everyday citizens who spoke out, marched, and protested against police killings of African-Americans, we present this collection of short essays that put Black lives at the center of our thinking about architecture and its history.
Introduction: Black Lives Matter
Jonathan Massey, Meredith TenHoor, Sben Korsh
Is “Justice Architecture” Just?
Raphael Sperry
Schools and Prisons
Amber Wiley
Fair Policing for the Fair City?
Caitlin Cahill, Brett G. Stoudt, María Elena Torre, Jose Lopez, Researchers for Fair Policing
Defensible Space and the Open Society
Joy Knoblauch
Designing the Great Migration
James D. Graham, Michael Abrahamson
The Invisible Brother with a Brick
Brian Goldstein
Race, Planning, and the American City
Joseph Heathcott
The Rights to the Suburb
Dianne Harris
Air and the Politics of Resistance
Derek R. Ford
Black Spaces Matter
Charles L. Davis II
Toward a Black Formalism
Darell W. Fields
Farming the Revolution
Mike Carriere, Antoine Carter, Fidel Verdin
Valuing Black Lives Means Changing Curricula
Héctor Tarrido-Picart
Black Lives Matter Call for Work
Meredith TenHoor, Jonathan Massey
Indigenous Knowledge and the Decolonization of Architectural Pasts and Futures
Andrew Herscher, Ana María León, Ayala Levin, Meredith TenHoor
How can architectural historians responsibly engage Indigenous knowledge in their research and pedagogy?
On Collaborations: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Rachel Lee
"On Collaborations: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration" is the third installment of a multisited collection of articles and essays that takes migration as the central concept and historical event behind a set of feminist histories. Excerpts from each contributi...
On Collaborations: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration
(Peer-reviewed)Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Rachel Lee
Working Women and Architectural Work: Hong Kong 1945–1985
(Peer-reviewed)Eunice Seng
Spatial Practices of Dissidence: Identity, Fragmentary Archives, and the Austrian Resistance in Exile, 1938–1945
(Peer-reviewed)S. E. Eisterer
The Nail-House of the Sent-Down Girl: Exile and Migration in China’s Modern City
(Peer-reviewed)Juan Du
Birthing, Borders, and Bodies: American Crossings
(Peer-reviewed)Lori A. Brown
Enclosed Bodies: Locating Cerdá’s Urbanización within Federici’s History of Capitalism
(Peer-reviewed)Ross Exo Adams
Margins, Diffractions, Collaborations: Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration
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Risk Design
(Peer-reviewed)Jonathan Massey
Risk Design Analytic Drawing
Jonathan Massey, Andrew Weigand
30 St. Mary Axe Slideshow
Jonathan Massey
The Labor of Albert Kahn
Claire Zimmerman
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