Praxis: Journal of Writing and Building, Issue 1

Arts & Photography

Reeser, Amanda

Architecture

Praxis, Inc.

The largest and fastest growing city on the American continent is the focus of the first of the Praxis issues dedicated to a case study of a particular city. Mexico City presents a unique opportunity to investigate issues facing all American cities including sprawl, infrastructure, transportation, and housing. A number of firms whose work is little known outside their own country are responding to these urban issues with innovative solutions, inextricably linked to the larger project of the city. 
Mexico City: Projects from the Megacity, features the written and built work of architects whose projects and ideas impact the cultural, climactic, and political landscape of Mexico City. These projects examine the role of design at multiple scales, measuring the complex relationship between architecture and the urban condition at the beginning of the 21st century. Included are projects from Alberto Kalach, Mauricio Rocha Iturbide, Enrique Norten, Javier Sanchez, Luis 
Vicente Flores, and Isaac Broid along with essays by Jose Castillo, Richard Plunz and Inaki Echevveria, Luis Carranza and Alejandro Hernandez Galvez.

Praxis : Journal of Writing and Building, Issue 2, Mexico City: Projects from the Megacity

Ashley Schafer

Amanda Reeser

Praxis 6, New Technologies://New Architectures focuses on the relationship between architecture and contemporary technologies of production. The issue highlights projects that use recent developments in building systems, performance standards and fabrication methods to rethink conventional approaches to material and structure. Projects include innovative approaches to recycled or sustainable materials; building operation and conditioning; off-site assembly and fabrication; rapid prototyping; and cnc milling. Essays and projects by Sanford Kwinter, Greg Lynn, Bill Massie, deCoi, Shop Architects, Peter Testa, OMA, Morphosis, Atelier Ten, Kieran and Timberlake, Sheila Kennedy, Anthony Townsend, Hilary Sample and Antoin Picon.

Praxis: Journal of Writing and Building, Issue 6: New Technologies://New Architectures

Schafer, Ashley

Praxis 7, "Untitled Number Seven" features recent projects that reconceptualize the space and discourse of the museum. The journal posits an expanded definition of curation as not only an organizational device for choosing and arranging works of art, but more broadly as a device for structuring a relationship between building and the works of art it houses. This issue focuses on projects that challenge the very definition of the museum as a static determinant structure, and instead situate the contemporary museum more broadly as a cultural institution.

Praxis: Journal of Writing and Building, Issue 7: Untitled Number Seven

Praxis: Journal of Writing and Building, Issue 8: Re:Programming

Ashley Schafer and Amanda Reeser Lawrence

PRAXIS, 10, Urban Matters The double meaning of the title "Urban Matters" refers to the relevance of urbanism for architecture and to the effect of the materials that comprise the contemporary urban condition on the city. This issue considers different means for architecture to forge an alternative to modernist and post-modernist urban paradigms through ecological, technological, topological and political design approaches.

PRAXIS: Journal of Writing and Building, Issue 10: Urban Matters

Amanda Reeser Lawrence

PRAXIS: Journal of Writing and Building, Issue 11+12: 11 Architects, 12 Conversations

Praxis 14, "True Stories", considers the ways in which architects tell stories. Films, fictions, sitcoms, comics, and fairytales are among the types of architectural narratives featured in the issue. These acts of architectural storytelling are considered for their capacity as both critical and projective disciplinary tools. FEATURED ARCHITECTS AND AUTHORS: Barry Bergdoll, Reinhold Martin, Jimenez Lai, MOS, Julia and John McMorrough, Keith Krumwiede, Carlos Teixeira, Keith Mitnick, Christina Goberna and Urtzi Grau, Klaus Roons, Kazys Varnelis and Robert Sumrell, and Wes Jones.

Praxis: Journal of Writing + Building, Issue 14: True Stories

Ana Miljački

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