akpinar
Block by Block
Block by Block reimagines urban spaces with a community-centered approach by repurposing schoolyards into microfarms, vacant lots into kitchens, and underutilized streets into food markets, creating a sustainable food ecosystem….
Permanently Temporary
Architecture’s defiance of personal adaptation exposes a fundamental flaw of the discipline. Permanent spaces and infrastructures struggle to remain socially, culturally, and physically relevant when presented with the changing and…
audio-spatial device diagrams [Recovered] 2
The Right to Make Noise
Sound has the capacity to heal, move, gather, and grow that which it touches. It can serve as a rallying cry or as an opportunity for self expression. If loud…
Pinup Collage [Recovered]
On Monument: Permanence and Change
To what extent is a monument representative of a city and its identity? On Monument interrogates the traditional forms of monumentality and the failure of permanence to capture the ongoing…
salazar
Liminal: Toward a Space of Phenomenal Inclusion
Mixed use developments claim to promote urban growth; inclusiveness through walkable and open areas; social health; and a sense of community. These developments, however, often lead to gentrification, exclusion, and…
7th Street Line
The encroachment of development from Downtown Los Angeles is creating an urgent crisis in the neighboring community of Boyle Heights. The neighborhood has already suffered from the process of gentrification…
schindler
Play-Ground
Play is undoubtedly a serious and critical element of culture, and a generative force for humanity. At present, however, districts of ‘leisure’ or ‘recreation’ either refuse urbanism, like parks, or…
Game Board Axons [Converted]
Anchors + Attachments: A Collaborative Toolkit for a Lateral Design Process
Spaces cannot be truly public when they are created through vertical design processes that are exclusionary and hierarchical. Both top-down and bottom-up design methods marginalize certain groups, creating power dynamics…
Perceptual Interjections
Our navigations through our cities possess the power to generate distinct emotions and intricate neural patterns. These emotional responses vary based on an individual’s perception, interaction, and frequency of moving…
gibo
Superbia: Cities in the Sky
Superbia is not a mere alternative but a revolutionary manifesto for the future of the American urban fabric. It goes beyond the failures of suburbia to embrace a vision of…
quiroz
Dig It!: Missing Middle Housing in Los Angeles
There is no middle ground for working class Angelenos. As the city gentrifies and the cost of living increases, working families are affected hardest by the affordable housing crisis. At…
jeong
Re(De)-Visit: Rewriting a Collective Memory for Korea’s Mended Future
Korea’s Demilitarized Zone is a dichotomic political and ideological divide that marks the division and separation between two polar extremes. The paradox of the border condition is that through its…