Issue 27
Debate
Issue 27
Welcome to our Debate issue. This issue explores the role of debates, ones that have taken place as well as ones that should take place. How are these debates constructive exchanges of opposing positions? What are the topics of those impassioned discussions? What are the issues at stake? What are the venues, physical or virtual, historic or current, in which these debates take place? What conditions favor the generation of these debates? Who participates in these debates, who is the audience, and who should be the audience? And ultimately, what are the outcomes of these debates? We hope you take part of the debate.
Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
Identifying the Designer as Worker
Essay by Peggy Deamer, Quilian Riano, and Manuel Shvartzberg on behalf of The Architecture Lobby
Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture
Essay by Denise Scott Brown
Essay by Justine Clark
Essay by Adrian Shaughnessy
Zoë Ryan interviews Paola Antonelli
Project by Mimi Zeiger and Neil Donnelly
It’s Not What You Say, It’s What You Do
Iker Gil and Ann Lui interview Stanley Tigerman
Illustrations by Jason Pickleman
Jessica Barrett Sattell interviews Dgenerator
A Heroic Debate by Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo, and Mark Pasnik
The Personal Debate of Juan O’Gorman
Essay by Fabrizio Gallanti
Political Props: Territorial Performance and the Chamizal Dispute
Essay by Nathan Friedman
Circulating Borders: The BMW Guggenheim Lab
Essay by Marina Otero Verzier
Dialogue Concerning a House’s World System (After Galileo)
Text by Dennis Maher
In Plain Sight, An Architectural Hit List
Essay by Max Kuo with illustrations by Max Kuo, Olivia Heung, Annie Schneider, and LeeAnn Suen
Project by Christina Shivers
Expressing Opposing Opinions Through Buttons
Button selection by Busy Beaver Buttons Co.
Text by Craig Shparago