13 / Ownership
Spring 2012
The concept of ownership, the exclusive rights and control over a property of any kind, has existed for centuries and in all cultures. Whether state, collective or personal, ownership is probably one of the most determining factors not only in defining our built environment but in the way we have shaped our society. But what if the way we live has changed? Can we redefine ownership to adapt it to the needs of the society? Can that redefinition provide new opportunities for our built environment? This issue will be dedicated to examining ownership in our current culture, ancient traditions, legal system and physical environment.
Contributions by Martin Adolfsson, William F. Baker, Kate Bingaman Burt, Eleanor Chapman, Santiago Cirugeda, Killian Doherty, Kirby Ferguson, Pedro Hernández, Jeanne Gang, Iker Gil, Network Architecture Lab, Quilian Riano, Denise Scott Brown, Richard F. Tomlinson II, XAM, and KLAUS who is the cover designer.
Issue 13 Introduction
Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
Invention and Tradition
Essay by Denise Scott Brown, architect, planner, urban designer: principal of Venturi Scott Brown and Associates, and theorist, writer and educator
Suburbia Gone Wild
Essay by Denise Scott Brown, architect, planner, urban designer: principal of Venturi Scott Brown and Associates, and theorist, writer and educator
Everything is a Remix
Iker Gil interviews Kirby Ferguson, writer, director, editor and author of the Everything is a Remix series
Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
Essay by Benjamin Brichta, the Network Architecture Lab, an experimental unit at the Columbia University GSAPP directed by Kazys Varnelis
Ownership is Dead
Essay by architect Eleanor Chapman
On the Question of #whOWNSpace
Essay by Quilian Riano on behalf of the #whOWNSpace collaborative project
Cape Town: The City Without and Within the White Lines
Essay by Killian Doherty, architect and lecturer in Rwanda
The Party is Over
Essay and photographs by architect Pedro Hernández
Cooperative Dream
Iker Gil interviews Jeanne Gang, founder and principal of Studio Gang Architects and 2011 MacArthur Fellow
Negotiating Legality
Projects by Santiago Cirugeda, architect and director of Recetas Urbanas
Birdhouses/Feeders
Urban interventions by street artist and designer XAM
Bridging the Tracks:
Air Rights Development and the Urban FabricEssay by William F. Baker and Richard F. Tomlinson II
Obsessive Consumption
Text and illustrations by Kate Bingaman Burt
