Issue 26-25
Legacy
Issue 26-25
Welcome to our Legacy issue. This issue focuses on the buildings, places, books, ideas, and proposals that have left or will leave a strong mark on our urban environment. Which are the buildings and proposals that have influenced our understanding and approach to architecture? What can we learn from those that are no longer standing? How are these legacies carried forward, from the formats that are used to the validity that those legacies may have across generations? We will showcase those small and groundbreaking aspects that have left a lasting legacy in our lives. And we are not just looking at the past. We look forward, speculating about the future legacies that today’s world will generate.
Building and Demolishing Legacies
Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
Essay by Geoff Goldberg
In Support of the Speculative Project: A Chicago Legacy
Essay by Alexander Eisenschmidt
Project by Stanley Tigerman
Project by Urbanlab
Project by PORT Urbanism
All History is Contemporary History
Iker Gil interviews Adrian Shaughnessy
Diagrams by Jacob Chartoff
Essay by Aisling O’Carroll
The Potential of Absence: Informal Green Space and its Unexpected Legacies
Text and photographs by Christoph Rupprecht
Essay by Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
Journey with Maps: A Cultural Emergency Project in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Essay by Killian Doherty
An Unlikely Legacy: 1933 Shanghai
Essay by Rachna Kothari
Text and photographs by Jason Reblando
Figural Monuments: Six Ways to Commemorate Celebrity Mishaps
Project by TALL
Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof
Project by Ted Brown
Essay by Andrea Dietz
Lessons Learned: Quandaries posed by Learning from Las Vegas and Delirious New York
Essay by James Khamsi
Essay by Fabrizio Gallanti
The Short Life and Long History of The Pagoda
Essay by Carlos Copertone and Patxi Eguiluz
Never-Loved Buildings Rarely Stand a Chance: Josep Lluís Sert in Cambridge
Essay by Alexandra Lange with photographs by Lee Dykxhoorn
Essay by Paola Aguirre and Michelle Ha Tucker with photographs by David Schalliol