Liquid Cities

William O. Gardner

In Japanese architecture and science fiction from the 1960s through the 1990s, we can trace an enduring question: “how to make substantial architecture when substantial things are losing their meaning.” From the socio-technical visions realized by Metabolists at the Osaka Expo to cyberpunk classics like Neuromancer and Venus City, we confront the dematerialization of architecture.

In Japanese architecture and science fiction from the 1960s through the 1990s, we can trace an enduring question: “how to make substantial architecture when substantial things are losing their meaning.”

Read

  • Parks and Houses for the People

    Johan Pries, Erik Jönsson & Don Mitchell

  • Urban Auscultation

    Shannon Mattern

  • Field Notes on Pandemic Teaching: 6

    Kadambari Baxi, Matias del Campo, Fadi Masoud, Renée Cheng, Elizabeth Donovan, Carl Smith, Dana Tomlin, Aaron Cayer, Delia Mellis, Huda Tayob, G. Pelin Sarıoğlu Erdoğdu, Nicholas Pevzner, Robin Tremblay-McGaw, Billy Fleming

  • Field Notes on Pandemic Teaching: 5

    Orla Murphy & Emmett Scanlon, Liska Chan, Derek Hoeferlin, Peggy Deamer, Yuko Uchikawa, Hugh Raffles, Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió, Sarah Rottenberg, Germane Barnes, Jesse LeCavalier, Susannah Drake, Annmarie Adams, Carolina Dayer

Galleries

Columnists

  • Naomi Stead
  • Barbara Penner
  • Keith Eggener

Naomi Stead

Naomi Stead is a columnist for Places. She is an architecture critic and Head of Architecture at Monash University.

Recent Articles

Shannon Mattern

Shannon Mattern is a columnist for Places. She is a professor of anthropology at The New School in New York City.

Recent Articles

Barbara Penner

Barbara Penner is a columnist for Places. She is Professor of Architectural Humanities at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

Recent Articles

Keith Eggener

Keith Eggener is a columnist for Places. He is Marion Dean Ross Professor of Architectural History at the University of Oregon.

Recent Articles

Series

History of the Present

Cities in Transition

History of the Present focuses on cities facing profound social, political, and environmental challenges.

 Read