10 / Conflict
Summer 2011

Conflicts are an inevitable part of our society. Their origins can be political, economic or social; their outcomes physically and emotionally impact cities and countries, economies and societies; we can’t avoid them. It’s the moment to discuss the consequences and how design can be a useful tool to address them.

Contributors to this issue include Jonathan Andrew, Christopher Baker, Vladimir Belogolovsky, David Garcia Studio, dpr-barcelona, Peter Eisenman, Thomas Hillier, Alex Lehnerer, Nora Niasari, OMNIBUS, Mika Savela, Simon Scheithauer, Cameron Sinclair and Urban-Think Tank.

1. Introduction
   EMBRACE YOUR CONFLICT. Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
   
2. Under the Bridge
   Film and Essay by Nora Niasari
   
3. Build Simply: South of the Border
   Essay by Architects Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, from the Interdisciplinary Design Practice Urban-Think Tank with Research Assistant Daniel Schwartz from ETH
   
4. Under Conflict, Can We Still Give a Damn?
   Ethel Baraona Pohl and César Reyes from dpr-Barcelona Interview Cameron Sinclair, Chief Eternal Optimist and Co-Founder of Architecture for Humanity
   
5. The Emperor’s Castle
   Project and Text by Thomas Hillier
   
6. Prostitution, Migration and Urban Territory
   Essay and Diagrams by Omnibus (Charlotte Malterre Barthes with Valentina Genini)
   
7. Towards Open Architecture
   Essay by Simon Scheithauer
   
8. The Great Mosques of Lake Geneva
   Essay by Architect Mika Savela
   
9. Water Shore Habitat
   Project by David Garcia Studio Awarded First Prize in the International UNESCO Delta City of the Future Competition
   
10. Downtown’s Will to Form
    Essay by Architect and Urban Designer Alex Lehnerer
    
11. WW2 Bunkers
    Photographs by Jonathan Andrew
    
12. Changes are Coming
    Vladimir Belogolovsky, Architect and Founder of the Intercontinental Curational Project, Interviews Architect and Educator Peter Eisenman
    
13. Image Conflict
    Letter by Javier Arbona