25-26 / Legacy Spring-Summer 15
Welcome to our Legacy issue. This issue focuses on the buildings, places, books, ideas, and proposals that have left or will leave a strong mark on our urban environment. Which are the buildings and proposals that have influenced our understanding and approach to architecture? What can we learn from those that are no longer standing? How are these legacies carried forward, from the formats that are used to the validity that those legacies may have across generations? We will showcase those small and groundbreaking aspects that have left a lasting legacy in our lives. And we are not just looking at the past. We look forward, speculating about the future legacies that today’s world will generate.
Contributions by Paola Aguirre, Ted Brown, Jacob Chartoff, Carlos Copertone, Andrea Dietz, Killian Doherty, Lee Dykxhoorn, Patxi Eguiluz, Alexander Eisenschmidt, Fabrizio Gallanti, Iker Gil, Geoff Goldberg, Michelle Ha Tucker, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, James Khamsi, Rachna Kothari, Alexandra Lange, Aisling O’Carroll, PORT|Urbanism, Jason Reblando, Christoph Rupprecht, David Schalliol, Adrian Shaughnessy, TALL, Stanley Tigerman, and UrbanLab. Cover by Tom Harris / Hedrich Blessing.
Introduction
Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
Heritage is Ineffable
Essay by Geoff Goldberg
In Support of the Speculative Project
A Chicago LegacyEssay by Alexander Eisenschmidt
Urban Matrix
Project by Stanley Tigerman
Filter Island
Project by UrbanLab
The Big Shift
Project by PORT|Urbanism
All History is Contemporary History
Iker Gil interviews Adrian Shaughnessy
Building Legacies
Diagrams by Jacob Chartoff
The Parkway
A Curated LegacyEssay by Aisling O'Carroll
The Potential of Absence
Informal Green Space and its Unexpected LegaciesText and photographs by Christoph Rupprecht
The Future of Neglect
Essay by Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
Journey with Maps
A Cultural Emergency Project in Freetown, Sierra LeoneEssay by Killian Doherty
An Unlikely Legacy
1933 ShanghaiEssay by Rachna Kothari
New Deal Utopias
Text and photographs by Jason Reblando
Figural Monuments
Six Ways to Commemorate Celebrity MishapsProject by TALL
Architecture and the City
Berlin, TempelhofProject by Ted Brown
Wallpaper
Essay by Andrea Dietz
Lessons Learned
Quandaries posed by Learning from Las Vegas and Delirious New YorkEssay by James Khamsi
The Lehman Invisible Monument
Essay by Fabrizio Gallanti
The Short Life and Long History of The Pagoda
Essay by Carlos Copertone and Patxi Eguiluz
Never-Loved Buildings Rarely Stand a Chance
Josep Lluís Sert in CambridgeEssay by Alexandra Lange. Photographs by Lee Dykxhoorn.
When the Future Was Here
Essay by Paola Aguirre and Michelle Ha Tucker. Photographs by David Schalliol.
