Adrian Lopez Medina
In collaboration with Shohei Shigematsu of OMA, artist Taryn Simon has created An Occupation of Loss , a spatial performance that continues her exploration on the notions of abstraction. Unveiled at New York’s Park Avenue Armory, the installation and series of happenings meditate on “the anatomy of grief and the intricate systems that we devise to…
As the global circulation of people, information and goods transforms, the world is becoming a small er place, and as a result, notions of belonging have become destabilized. Home was once the place for one’s roots, a symbolic source of familiarity and the collective accumulation of memories. However, since pushing mobility to the extreme, our understanding…
“This century is seeing the emergence of a new type of human settlement — the megalopolis.” — Consta ntinos Doxiadis, “The Emerging Great Lakes Megalopolis,” 1968 Much of our inherited urban landscape continues to be understood via early modernist notions of the city. These sweeping urban manifestos present visions of a static city with forms and…