on site 14: architecture and land

Building directly involved with land and landforms, and the interaction forced by one on the other.

Looking at this issue now, from 2024 as I re-platform the flip books, this little issue had 26 articles, most of them really prescient about the issues of architecture and land, history, memory. The discusions could be had today. For example:

Tonkao Panin wrote about re-building after a tsunami in Bang-Ngo and Krabi, Thailand.

Florian Jungen wrote about l’oeuf’s Benny Farm in Montreal, a revolutionary use of land and density, production and self-sufficiency on an urban site.

or, Rainer Markku Peltonen writing about Berlin’s newly completed Holocaust Memorial by Peter Eisenman; and Cynthia Hammond visiting and writing about the World Trade Centre site just a few years after 2001, where hoardings and construction fences had become people’s memorials.

Armando Hashimoto wrote about informal housing interventions in Mexico City and Rafael Gomez-Moriana wrote about point blocks in Benidorm, Spain as a new narrow urban housing typology.

Three different projects from the far north.

and it goes on and on, page after page.

Still worth reading after twenty years !