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.
Issue 25-26 Introduction
Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS ContextHeritage is Ineffable
Essay by Geoff GoldbergIn Support of the Speculative Project
A Chicago Legacy
Essay by Alexander EisenschmidtUrban Matrix
Project by Stanley TigermanFilter Island
Project by UrbanLabThe Big Shift
Project by PORT UrbanismAll History is Contemporary History
Iker Gil interviews Adrian ShaughnessyBuilding Legacies
Diagrams by Jacob ChartoffThe Parkway: A Curated Legacy
Essay by Aisling O'CarrollThe Potential of Absence
Informal Green Space and its Unexpected Legacies
Text and photographs by Christoph RupprechtThe Future of Neglect
Essay by Srdjan Jovanovic WeissJourney with Maps
A Cultural Emergency Project in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Essay by Killian DohertyAn Unlikely Legacy: 1933 Shanghai
Essay by Rachna KothariNew Deal Utopias
Text and photographs by Jason ReblandoFigural Monuments
Six Ways to Commemorate Celebrity Mishaps
Project by TALLArchitecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof
Project by Ted BrownWallpaper
Essay by Andrea DietzLessons Learned
Quandaries posed by Learning from Las Vegas and Delirious New York
Essay by James KhamsiThe Lehman Invisible Monument
Essay by Fabrizio GallantiThe Short Life and Long History of The Pagoda
Essay by Carlos Copertone and Patxi EguiluzNever-Loved Buildings Rarely Stand a Chance
Josep Lluís Sert in Cambridge
Essay by Alexandra Lange with photographs by Lee Dykxhoorn.When the Future Was Here
Essay by Paola Aguirre and Michelle Ha Tucker. Photographs by David Schalliol.