Summary: Radically Public Architecture by Dana Cuff Reading this excerpt from Architectures of Spatial Justice shows that producing radical public architecture can manifest in a multitude of ways, but almost every way highlights a gap in societal, government, or...
Radically Public Architecture The 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the northeast regions of Japan leading to the loss of thousands of lives and displacement of many more people now without home nor community. The replanning of these destroyed towns was one of...
Lara, Fernando Luiz, and Felipe Hernández, eds. 2021. “Indigenous Modernities: The Tocapu and Other American Grids.” In Spatial Concepts for Decolonizing the Americas, 22–47. Cambridge Scholars Publishing Grid is convenient device used for millennia Grid is also an...
“Indigenous Modernities: The Tocapu and Other American Grids.” In this reading, the authors explain the history of grids, tracing them to indigenous spaces, the importance of grids to indigenous people’s architecture, and how grids have been historically used to...
Reading Summaries “Indigenous Modernities: The Tocapu and Other American Grids” by Ana Maria Leon and Andrew Herscher In this reading, we see examples of both indigenous and colonial grids in the Americas. We also see some recurring differences between...
