11 / Speed
Fall 2011
The urban conditions around us are constantly changing. With a faster or slower SPEED, the built environment is transformed as it does the way we experience and engage with it. In this issue we will be looking at the pace in which physical and social changes happen and the consequences and opportunities available.
Contributors to this issue include Andrew Bush, Brendan Crain, Candy Chang, Michael Chrisman, Andrew Clark, André Corrêa, Design With Company, Ensamble Studio, José María Ezquiaga, Iker Gil, Juan Herreros, Stephen Killion, Camilla Nielsson, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Troy Conrad Therrien, and Josef Schulz who is our guest cover designer.
Issue 11 Introduction
Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
Notes from the Velodrome
Essay by Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Professor of Romance Langiages & Literatures at Harvard and faculty at the GSD
Mumbai Disconnected
Iker Gil interviews Camilla Nielsson, co-director with Frederik Jacobi of the documentary Mumbai Disconnected
More than a Museum
Research and diagrams by Iker Gil
Farmland World
Project by Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer from Design With Company with Katharine Bayer and Hugh Swiatek
A Strategic Vision for the Center of Dense Cities
Madrid as a Case Study
Essay by José María Ezquiaga and Juan Herreros, architects and directors of PROYECTO MADRID CENTRO
Talk to Your City
Project by Candy Chang, co-founder of Civic Center, a civic design studio in New Orleans
1000 Hour Exposures
Andrew Clark interviews photographer Michael Chrisman
The Truffle
Project by Antón García-Abril, principal of Ensamble Studio
Race to Build
Diagrams by Iker Gil and André Corrêa
On the Quickening of History
Essay by Brendan Crain, founder of the Where blog and Communications Manager at Project for Public Spaces
Looking for a Theory of Real-Time Knowledge
Essay by Troy Conrad Therrien, founding partner in the creative curational agency TH-EY, and chief architect, cloud communication at Columbia University’s GSAPP
Speedway, Indiana
Research and diagrams by Stephen Killion
Vector Portraits
Photographs by Andrew Bush