Issue 6 — Work

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Edited by Marianela D'Aprile and Cooper Rogers

For the sixth issue of Room One Thousand, we asked authors to explore the many forms of labor present in architecture and to question how architecture, its Workers, and its processes are valued. Who and what determines the value of architectural Work? What sets private rates and public opinion? What are the products of architectural Work?

In response to this prompt, Kevin Block demystifies inspiration; Jennifer Bonner locates Work outside of the Working; Thomas Murdoch talks to Peggy Deamer about Lobbying for Work; Greg Castillo finds hippies Working after all; Nicholas Harvey-Cheetham shows what happens when Work doesn't conform to norms; Jessica Colangelo delves deep into the process of two well-known architectural Workers; Phillip G. Bernstein imagines a future of simulated Work; Keefer Dunn argues against Working to be employable; UXO shows us how their practice refuses Work; David Ramis does a bunch of Work and for what?; Roxanne Smith tells a story of Working for a folly; David Jaehning unpacks the Work of parametricism; f-architecture takes us through a trip through their many fields and many Works; and we present Work, A Competition, with Matt Turlock and Sam Gebb.

Issue Five — Timeless

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Edited by Alex Spatzier and Adam Miller. 

We are pleased to announce the release of our 5th issue, Timeless. 

In this issue Peter Eisenman and Christopher Alexander get back together again on this 35th anniversary of their first debate; Eric Peterson reconsiders the rhetoric of Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language and its relationship to the architectural manifesto; Robert Crabtree designed a house from the origin and wrote a variety of other abstract thoughts; Andrew Shanken’s Memory Seminar wrote a manifesto to remember; We interview Andrew Holder on the Picturesque, Timeless, and his recent installation “The Kid Gets Out of The Picture”; John Stoughton shows us the timeless future of John Hejduk; Emma Lubbers tells a Timeness story in four parts; Aaron Weller analyses UNESCO’s values for preservation, and discovers the “mystified shed”; Peter Korn confronts fachadismo while reporting from Porto, Portugal; Timothy Wai gathers a hundred architecture sheep in taupe; John Parman interviews Thomas Gordon Smith about The Classical Imagination; Matthew Kernan fragments nostalgia in an economy housing proposal for Aarhus, Denmark; Paul Humphries illuminates the paradox of style; Sigve Knutson translates from drawings to objects; Michelle Rada presents Modernism’s tense as provoked by Sigmund Freud’s understanding of timelessness; Neyran Turan asks “Can Images Implode?” using historical examples and recent work by her rm NEMESTUDIO; Aaron Goldstein plays ball with architectural history and opens up the Eton Fives Court; Andrew Kovacs specifies 20 steps for making beautiful floor plans; Kyle Miller makes new architecture from canonical single-family homes; Adam Nathaniel Furman comes to town and we interview him about his recent work and color (or was it colour?); Bairballiet, Kelly Bair and Kristy Balliet, reveal architecture’s Timeless use of three ploys; Ji Shi and Ivy Feng discuss Apple Inc’s use of copy-paste across scales from keyboards, to screens and even to buildings; Marco Gola, Andrea Brambrilla, Stefano Capolongo and the Open Building Research Group of Alta Scuola Politecnica discuss timelessness as resilience versus resistance and describe their work to design a more flexible hospital based on an open source modular patient room; Filip Tejchman motivates the need for a better rock and a better understanding of entropy.... We present a Foam Parti by Cooper Rogers and Cora Lautze, we interview them too; Whitney Moon convinces us that Cedric Price was Timeless; Levon Fox makes a post-virtual death mask; Common Accounts, Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler, propose to bring death back to the city and play it back forever; Lucas Almássy interviews the faculty, staff and students of the College of Environmental Design and reveals varying notions of Timeless;

Issue Four — Architectural Expertise

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Edited by Kevin Block.

Contents: Introduction: President-Architect: On Recent Politics and Architectural Expertise, Kevin Block. Center for the Built Environment: tools & technologies for performance, Gail Brager & Edward Arens. Modeling architecture in the world of expertise, Harry Collins, Robert Evans, Sergio Pineda & Martin Weinel. Father, Child, & Ban - Nine Square Novel, Sean Nakamura Dolan. The Art of Mud Building in Djenné, Mali, Trevor H.J. Marchand. Saturated FAT: replete image in architecture, Adam Miller. First Kill All the Experts, John Parman. Spaces of Complexity. On Not-Kowing, Un-Learning and ‘Panoramas of Possibilities’, Tatjana Schneider. Apparent Folly No. 1, Alex Spatzier. Debating “Democracy”: The International Union of Architects and the Cold War Politics of Expertise, Katherine Zubovich. A Career at the Hinge: Paul Groth and Cultural Landscape Studies, Paul Groth with Sarah Lopez. Researching Architectural Research, Avigail Sachs with Jennifer Gaugler. Peggy Deamer’s: The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics and Design., a book review by Sharóne L. Tomer. Housing the Dead a lens through local densification patterns, Matthew Au. City of the Captive Audience 195 Aether House, Neal Barber & Nick Harvey Cheetham. Aether House, Foster Turcott. Who What When Where How Why, Jessica Chen & Mia Narell. Dynamic Ceramic, Phirak Suon. Overlap / Succesion / Sedimentation, Keenan Gravier & Isabella Warren.

Issue Three: Urban Pilgrimage — A Global Urban Humanities Special Issue

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Edited by Lawrence Yang and Padma Maitland

Table of Contents: Urban Pilgrimage, An Introduction Lawrence Yang and Padma Maitland

Routes: Losing My Religion in Oaxaca, Andrew Shanken; Water’s Pilgrimage in Rome, Katherine Rinne with illustrations by Rebecca Sunter; De Vieux-Montréal à Kahnawa:ké, Sara Terreault & Matthew Anderson; From the Fields to the City Gates, Martin Locker; GeoGuessr’s Digital Pilgrimages, Marta Figlerowicz; City of One Thousand Temples, Emma Natalya Stein; Diary of a Failed Pilgrim June 2014, Beverly Crawford.

Temporary Urbanism: Temporary Flows & Ephemeral Cities, Felipe Vera & Rahul Mehrotra; A Fistful of Barley, John Soriano; Sites of Representation, Kimberly Richards; Urban Place Making/Performing Rural Memories, Annie Malcolm with illustrations by Lauren Matthews; Kingship, Buddhism and the Forging of a Region, Jason Hawkes; Blacksmith Caravans on the Move, Sachin Bandukwala and Melissa Smith; Concrete’s Many Fair-Faces, Sarah Briggs Ramsey.

The Traveled Voice: In Demonstration, Lyn Hejinian; The Rhetoric of Return, Ragini Srinivasan; Journey to Juazeiro, Candace Slater; Art, Cinema, and Life Outside the Imperial Ring, Megan Hoetger; Nearing Nanjing, 1938, Evelyn Shih; Ziyaretler, Angela Andersen; Review of Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Tiffany Hong; Dense Ecologies / City and Bay, Nicholas de Monchaux et al.