The Avery Review
Territories and Ecologies
Architecture is both product and productive of territories. Whether through cartographic histories that defined and codified the land or through ever-evolving infrastructures of separation, containment, and connection, the discipline of architecture at its core maintains inside from outside. Yet building is also an act that structures relationships between sites that seem temporally and geographically distant—Far Rockaway and the Ninth Ward, Palo Alto and outer space, a sovereign oil platform and an illegal internet server, to name just a few. The essays collected here expose these territories and limn the ecologies of power, finance, climate, and consumption that the field participates within and works to shape. Together they examine near and far-flung territories and entangled ecologies of architectural practice and critique.
Degenerate Ark, in the Avery Review 39 (April 2019).