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Technology sometimes falls short
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What you can do with the city
Let us assure you
Forces of Friction
Acts of Looking
Keep Safe
Figuring Territory
Of Migration
A Social Reset
With and Within
Will Happiness Find Us?
What about the provinces?
A history of references
Into the material world
Take care
Nature reorganized
Ideas of living
The Other Architect
Origins of the digital
The rest of your senses
Journeys and translation
What the future looked like
The planet is the client
Technology sometimes falls short

This issue is a collection of stories about new technologies, about optimism, and about limits. A technological advantage that allows humans to travel to space, to build higher, longer, faster, or to bridge one condition or another may not always have the outcome that we really hoped for. And some technologies reshape our ways of thinking and living to such an extent that they themselves become platforms for new speculation.

In the Event of Moon Disaster
Alessandro Poli. <i>Zeno incontra Aldrin a Riparbella</i> (Zeno and Aldrin meet in Riparbella). 2008.
Zeno and Aldrin Meet in Riparbella in the Summer of 2008
Talking About Devious Design
We Are All Already Astronauts…
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The Aesthetics of Engineering
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Charles-François Viel’s Critique of Innovation
The Architecture of Photography in an Age of Obsolescence
Letter from Gordon Matta Clark to Dick Brown. 20 November 1977.
What Goes Up...
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Almost Nothing
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Starting From… The Bubble
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The Information Hive
What Is the City-as-Bruce-Lee?
Short Reckonings Make False Friends
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Polymorphic Computing: Isn’t This a Lot of Fun?
How to Access Digital Files from the Nineties
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Speed Reading
Expertise in the Comfort Zone
Internets Past
Article 8 of 18

What Goes Up...

A letter from Gordon Matta-Clark

Letter from Gordon Matta Clark to Dick Brown. 20 November 1977.

Letter from Gordon Matta Clark to Dick Brown, 20 November 1977. PHCON2002:0016:004:125, Gordon Matta-Clark collection, Canadian Centre for Architecture, by gift of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark. © Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark

This letter is part of a set of correspondence where Gordon Matta-Clark consults a variety of ballooning professionals and enthusiasts on how to loft loads of 1500 pounds for short periods of time. Unfortunately, this project never did make it off the ground. But this letter was displayed in our hall cases under the title Starting From… The Bubble. You can find out more about the Gordon Matta-Clark collection here.

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