This issue is about space and place, and various attempts to engage or overcome them. Our networks today, far from evenly distributed, are by turns empowering, exploitative, galvanizing for activism, surveillant, and emotionally exhausting, as we project joy, empathy, or moral outrage to ever more places from afar. What are the infrastructures on which we rely, and who are their architects, figuratives and literal? As a magazine based in the South with a global reach, ART PAPERS has long asked these kinds of questions. And the logics of design and architecture can venture answers, making these structures visible or building them anew. TABLE OF CONTENTS:MultipleDavid Reinfurt (O-R-G)What does it mean to make an artist's multiple now? A software commission. Logistics Makes the WorldJesse LeCavalierSynchronizing the world of commerce means attempting to overcome time and space. A study of logistics with a photo essay on UPS. Losing InterestShumon BasarA letter in response to a request to write about architecture. TV University, ca. 1964John HarwoodSol Cornberg, a forgotten architect of media, harnessed telepresence— first in the name of commerce, then in the name of the Enlightenment. Typographic FictionsErik BrandtBrandt's Minneapolis garage has become a global platform for experimental graphic design. Open Architecture in Berlin-KreuzbergEsra AkcanA public housing exhibition in 1980s Berlin stands out not just for its famous architectural cast, but for inviting future residents into the design process. On Vernacular ComputingJacob GabouryA manifesto confronts the ways we actually use technology. Total ResetKaren KubeyIdeas for affordable housing from the Institute for Public Architecture. Strange ShapesMTWTFOne person one vote—sort of. A design commission considers the geometry of gerrymandering. The Knoll TranscriptsMargot WellerPreviously unpublished interviews with Knoll designers revise the story of midcentury modernism. Concept ModelsAllied Works ArchitectureBeyond site or program, these models focus the minds of designers and communicate viscerally with clients. Reviews: Books Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Spaceby Keller EasterlingCarson Chan Bauhaus Weaving Theory:From Feminine Craft to Mode of Designby T'ai SmithRachel Silveri Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Centuryby Claire Zimmerman Esther Choi Reviews: Exhibitions Amie Siegel: Provenanceat The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkRattanamol Singh Johal Fin de Siècleat the Swiss Institute, New York Gregor Quack Beyond the Supersquareat the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York Elis Mendoza The Space Betweenat One Athens, Athens, GreeceStephanie Bailey Design and Violence and Disobedient Objectsat MoMA and the V&A, New York and London Emily King Glossary: CurateBarry BergdollA re-definition releases some hot air from the cult of the curator.
