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.
Issue 10 Introduction
Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
Under the Bridge
Film and essay by Nora Niasari
Build Simply: South of the Border
Essay by architects Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner from Urban-Think Tank with research assistant Daniel Schwartz from ETH
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
The Emperor’s Castle
Project and text by Thomas Hillier
Prostitution, Migration and Urban Territory
Essay and diagrams by OMNIBUS (Charlotte Malterre Barthes with Valentina Genini)
Towards Open Architecture
Essay by Simon Scheithauer
The Great Mosques of Lake Geneva
Essay by architect Mika Savela
Water Shore Habitat
Project by David Garcia Studio awarded First Prize in the International Unesco Delta City of the Future competition
Downtown’s Will to Form
Essay by architect and urban designer Alex Lehnerer
WW2 Bunkers
Photographs by Jonathan Andrew
Changes are Coming
Vladimir Belogolovsky, architect and founder of the Intercontinental Curational Project, interviews architect and educator Peter Eisenman
Image Conflict
Letter by Javier Arbona