5 / Energy
Spring 2010

ENERGY. It’s what gets us from here to there. Out of bed, to the moon, across town, to the core of the issue. It hurries the pace of civilization, and it’s positing the planet with problems of a shape and scope never before seen. Or dealt with. It takes energy to deal. And here’s the real deal: energy is power.

Contributions by Andrew Clark, Iker Gil, Sean Lally, Chris Martin, Elizabeth Redmond, Cesar Russ, Julia Sedlock, Marcel Wilson and Mitch Epstein who is also the cover designer. Case studies by WORK AC, Ecosistema Urbano, Martínez Lapeña-Torres and realities:united.

1. Introduction
   ENTERING THE SECOND YEAR WITH MORE ENERGY. Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
   
2. (As) American (As) Power
   Iker Gil and Andrew Clark Interview Photographer Mitch Epstein, Author of American Power
   
3. Farming the Air
   MAS Studio Collects Facts About Wind Power
   
4. Material Energies
   Julia Sedlock Interviews Weathers Founder Sean Lally
   
5. Staged Energy
   Photographers Chris Martin and Cesar Russ Capture the Exuberance of Being on Stage
   
6. Power Move
   Iker Gil Interviews Elizabeth Redmond, Founder and President of POWERleap
   
7. Lanai Networks
   Landscape Architect Marcel Wilson Explains the History, Challenges and Opportunities That Lanai Island in Hawaii is Facing
   
8. Prelinger Archives
   Films From the Prelinger Archives Showing the Type of Energy and Ideals That the United States Had During the 1930s, 40s And 50s
   
9. Case Study #1 Ecoboulevard Vallecas
   A Project by Ecosistema Urbano
   
10. Case Study #2 Public Farm 1
    A Project by Work Architecture Company
    
11. Case Study #3 Photovoltaic Canopy
    A Project by Martinez Lapeña-Torres Arquitectos
    
12. Case Study #4 Powerplant
    A Project by Realities:United