Plan JournalPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.02.11
Nicole Lambrou
{"title":"Rewilding the LA River: Water, Legislation, and Precarious Futures","authors":"Nicole Lambrou","doi":"10.15274/tpj.2020.05.02.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15274/tpj.2020.05.02.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36739,"journal":{"name":"Plan Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67132536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plan JournalPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.02.2
Craig S. Griffen
{"title":"(sub)URBAN Hybrid Housing: Rethinking the City with Healthy, Sustainable Housing","authors":"Craig S. Griffen","doi":"10.15274/tpj.2020.05.02.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15274/tpj.2020.05.02.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36739,"journal":{"name":"Plan Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67132589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plan JournalPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.15274/TPJ.2020.05.01.2
Marko Pogacnik, Sara Marini
{"title":"Giancarlo De Carlo. A Symposium","authors":"Marko Pogacnik, Sara Marini","doi":"10.15274/TPJ.2020.05.01.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15274/TPJ.2020.05.01.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36739,"journal":{"name":"Plan Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67131949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plan JournalPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.7
Danika Cooper
{"title":"Waving the Magic Wand: An Argument for Reorganizing the Aridlands around Watersheds","authors":"Danika Cooper","doi":"10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.7","url":null,"abstract":"Irrigation remains the primary means of sustaining urbanization and stabilizing agricultural productivity in arid America. In the contest for the West, water is both wealth and power. Today’s struggle to overturn water scarcity is traceable through a long history of legislation overseeing land regulation, property speculation, societal development, and cultural attitudes, real and perceived, inscribed within the America’s aridlands. In reality, there is no magic wand no miraculous technology that alone will fulfill the needs of all who have been promised abundance in the aridlands. This paper proposes that revisiting John Wesley Powell’s 1893 proposal for aridland development in the context of today’s ecological conditions catalyzes an alternative response to today’s predictions of changing climates, and can provide the basis of an approach to the aridlands which builds from the enmeshed relationship between social and environmental systems.","PeriodicalId":36739,"journal":{"name":"Plan Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67132112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plan JournalPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.6
P. Croset, A. Canclini
{"title":"On the CIAM 7 Grid: From an Ideological to a Critical Tool","authors":"P. Croset, A. Canclini","doi":"10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.6","url":null,"abstract":"Much historiographical research has been produced on the post-war CIAMs, demonstrating the importance of the CIAM Grid, proposed as a “thinking tool” for representing the town planning projects at the CIAM 7 in Bergamo (1949). This essay proposes a new critical and epistemological examination of the CIAM Grid based on new archival documents and on a rereading of the exact words used by Le Corbusier, who proposed to consider the Grid as an “interlocutor.” Seventy years later, we propose to go beyond the failure of CIAM 7 and to elaborate a “new Grid,” with the name of “Second Life Grid,” as a critical tool for discussing exclusively projects related to the new paradigm of recycling and reusing buildings and urban spaces. Beginning with the question of the critical legacy of the CIAM Grid, our intention was to think of a Grid conceived no longer as an instrument of dogmatic and normative thought, but as an instrument of dialogical criticism which has been tested through an open call for projects and an international conference held in Bergamo in October, 2019.","PeriodicalId":36739,"journal":{"name":"Plan Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67132099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plan JournalPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.5
F. Lara
{"title":"American Mirror: the Occupation of the ‘New World’ and the Rise of Architecture as We Know It","authors":"F. Lara","doi":"10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.5","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that the rise of architecture as a unique discipline and the conquest of the American continent are not just chronological coincidences but interdependent variables of the same process of modernization. Traditional scholarship in architecture has not entertained those parallel developments at all. The field of architectural history and theory still treats the spatial occupation of the Americas as a consequence of the Renaissance and European modernization, despite a few decades of scholarly literature in related disciplines questioning such assumptions. (Fanon 1961; Said 1978; Dussel 1980; Bhabha 1987; Escobar 1994). Such scholarship demonstrates that the encounter of 1492 and the territorial occupation that followed played a central role in the development of Western culture in general, allowing the extrapolation of the same logic to the architectural discipline in particular.","PeriodicalId":36739,"journal":{"name":"Plan Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67132059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plan JournalPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.11
Andreea S. Mihalache
{"title":"Musings on Boredom, Midcentury Architecture, and Public Spaces","authors":"Andreea S. Mihalache","doi":"10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15274/tpj.2020.05.01.11","url":null,"abstract":"The rejection of “boredom” fueled the midcentury reaction against modernism, but little is known about the complicated presence of this mood in the architectural discourse. Far from being a mere rhetorical tool, the quip “Less is a bore” is part of Robert Venturi’s larger interest in boredom and was influenced by his reading of a book referenced repeatedly in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966): August Heckscher’s The Public Happiness (1962). A liberal writer and political activist, Heckscher situated boredom at the core of modern humanity’s alienation. While the concern with boredom was explicitly addressed in the humanities, I suggest that it was taking shape in midcentury architectural polemics under the influence of writings from other disciplines, as well as the emerging artistic practices that were deliberately embracing the “aesthetics of boredom.” Specifically, I will examine Venturi’s reading of Heckscher through two of his (unbuilt) civic projects that directly engage the issue of boredom: Three Buildings for a Town in Ohio (1965) and the entry for the Copley Square Competition (1966).","PeriodicalId":36739,"journal":{"name":"Plan Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67132341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}