Journal #16

Speed. IMPACT. Change.

Edited by Greg Russell & Constance C. Lai

Contents:

William J. Mitchell
Introduction

Mitchell Schwarzer
Ghost Wards: The Flight of Capital from History

Rob Clocker
The Urban Exploratory Circus: Infrastructure for corporeality, connectedness and virtuosity

Megan Yakeley
Computers in Architecture: Tools to Think With in the Process of Design

Derek Fisher
Ground Zero; Conception and production of the Architectural Artifact

Aron Vinegar
Contingency and Flexibility in the Pontiac Building

Wolfgang Ungerer
A Systems Approach to Conceptual Design: A Very Tall Building in Hong Kong

Mark Bain
Transient Architecture: On the Making of the Live Room

Sung-Ho Kim
Perdix RCA Center: Competition for Nagoya Design Fair in Japan

Kevin Fellingham
Reproduction in the Age of the Mechanical Work of Art

Lawrence Shapiro
Architecture, History and the Embodiment of Speed

Greg Russell
Afterword (with a homage to Leo Marx)

NOTE: this journal is out of print.

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