In addition, a special section guest edited by Francesco Marullo is devoted to Notes on the Desert. The section, which raises issues of climate change and the extraction economy, includes essays by architect Nathan Friedman on the US-Mexico border, artist Kim Stringfellow on jackrabbit homesteads, feminist scholar Traci Brynne Voyles on the 49ers, and architect Lydia Xynogala speaking for a desert toad; photo essays by the Center for Land Use Interpretation on nuclear tombs and by photographer Susan Lipper on desert utopia; as well as an interview with photographer Richard Misrach on his Cantos series.

Contents

Matthew Allen, “Undoing the Data Divide”
Tim Altenhof, “Function Follows Facade”
Simone Brott, “Architecture Capital Unchained”
Cynthia Davidson, “A “House” Grows in Brooklyn”
Thomas de Monchaux, “Time Pieces: On the Paintings of Anthony Ames”
Ana María Durán Calisto & Sanford Kwinter, “Learning from Amazonia”
Victor J. Jones, “On Civic Nature”
Kwang-Yu King, “Project Taipei”
Karel Klein, “Machines à Rechercher”
Marija Marić, “Bricks, Blocks, and (Block)Chains”
Peter Olshavsky, “Michael’s Mouth”
Christophe Van Gerrewey, “The Depot Effect”
Jan Vranosky, “A Nakagin Postmortem”

Notes on the Desert

Center for Land Use Interpretation, “Perpetual Architecture”
Ludovico Centis, “Observations on Desert Experiments”
Nathan Friedman, “On Unstable Ground”
Susan Lipper, “A Promised Utopia”
Francesco Marullo, “To Desert”
Richard Misrach, “Desert Stories”
Kim Stringfellow, “Jackrabbit Homesteading”
Traci Brynne Voyles, “Connective Tissue”
Lydia Xynogala, “Desert Toads, Springs, and Other Stories”