From the category archives:

Infrastructure

Manifesto for an Infrastructure Against Atrophy

by Tommy Manuel

The fol­low­ing man­i­festo is a work­ing draft and may be edited in the future to account for new infor­ma­tion and devel­op­ments.
This a man­i­festo for an infra­struc­ture against atro­phy, a net­work of mul­ti­func­tional sys­tems con­ceived on the premise to sup­port human fit­ness and envi­ron­men­tal resiliency. This is the under­ly­ing form before form, the antecedent to future […]

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Manhattan Studio News: Underground Space

by Andrew MacNair

Farm­ing in Aban­doned Sub­way Sta­tions: Week 2, Ses­sion 3  —  Tues­day, June 16, 2009
Con­sid­er­ing how much we think we know about city, it often takes an out­sider to come and show us some­thing about it that is new to us. Sean Taber, an archi­tect who recently moved to New York from Los Angles showed his ongo­ing under­ground study […]

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Steven M. Johnson for National Infrastructure Jester

by Tommy Manuel

I came across Alli­son Arieff’s NY Times piece, Search­ing for Value in Ludi­crous Ideas this morn­ing. Need­less to say I was excited about the focus of the arti­cle and how it relates to the premise for the Pam­phlet Archi­tec­ture sub­mis­sion I’m work­ing on. Arieff’s arti­cle explores the value in ludi­crous ideas through the work of Steven […]

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Pamphlet Architecture Competition: working abstract

by Tommy Manuel

What if our infra­struc­ture, designed to pro­vide us with con­ve­nient, effi­cient, and faster ser­vices and goods, was actu­ally mak­ing us awk­ward, unpro­duc­tive, and slow?  The United State’s infra­struc­ture has gar­nered much polit­i­cal, eco­nom­i­cal, plan­ning, and design atten­tion of late. This elab­o­rate sys­tem  –  4 mil­lion miles of roads, 600,000 bridges, 26,000 miles of com­mer­cially nav­i­ga­ble water­ways, 11,000 […]

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