Issue 13
Ownership
Issue 13
The concept of ownership, the exclusive rights and control over a property of any kind, has existed for centuries and in all cultures. Whether state, collective or personal, ownership is probably one of the most determining factors not only in defining our built environment but in the way we have shaped our society. But what if the way we live has changed? Can we redefine ownership to adapt it to the needs of the society? Can that redefinition provide new opportunities for our built environment? This issue will be dedicated to examining ownership in our current culture, ancient traditions, legal system and physical environment.
Moving Beyond Buyer and Seller
Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
Essay by Denise Scott Brown, architect, planner, urban designer: principal of Venturi Scott Brown and Associates, and theorist, writer and educator
Text and images by photographer Martin Adolfsson
Iker Gil interviews Kirby Ferguson, writer, director, editor and author of the Everything is a Remix series
Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
Essay by Benjamin Brichta, the Network Architecture Lab, an experimental unit at the Columbia University GSAPP directed by Kazys Varnelis
Essay by architect Eleanor Chapman
On the Question of #whOWNSpace
Essay by Quilian Riano on behalf of the #whOWNSpace collaborative project
Cape Town: The City Without and Within the White Lines
Essay by Killian Doherty, architect and lecturer in Rwanda
Essay and photographs by architect Pedro Hernández
Iker Gil interviews Jeanne Gang
Projects by Santiago Cirugeda, architect and director of Recetas Urbanas
Urban interventions by street artist and designer XAM
Bridging the Tracks: Air Rights Development and the Urban Fabric
Essay by William F. Baker and Richard F. Tomlinson II
Text and illustrations by Kate Bingaman Burt