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Infrastructure

Revising and Re-sizing History: New Work Shows Ohio Site to Be Ancient Water Works, Not a Fort

by Tommy Manuel

Source: Date: Carey Hoff­man, Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati News
Dis­cov­er­ies made by Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati researchers this sum­mer at a hill­top site west of Cincin­nati turn a long-accepted his­tor­i­cal inter­pre­ta­tion of how the site served the Shawnee peo­ple upside down.
The site known as Miami Fort is no fort at all, and it is also much larger than pre­vi­ously believed  –  so […]

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unForm + unSpace: Architecture of the unSeen

by Tommy Manuel

There is a genus of form and space that goes unseen. Every­one knows were they lie, but few ven­ture into their pres­ence. They pulse beneath our feet and writhe under the hum of traf­fic, rest­less and hun­gry for some­one to con­sume. Cav­i­ties and cages echo with the sound of painful empti­ness.
These are the undead, drift­ing between the shad­ows of the living […]

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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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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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