Editorial: Parainfrastructures
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Aware of our scarce resources, it is time to re-program the rigid models of the past, from the margins, designing flexible infrastructures free from rhetoric.
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John May: Infrastructuralism: The pathology of negative externalities
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Particularly acute today among urbanists and bureaucrats—for whom efficiency is an almost erotic obsession—infrastructuralism is a modern pathology in which the rhetoric and imagery of managerial discourse serve to erase any differentiation between primary and reflexive modernization.
Coke Bartrina: Girona-Costa Brava Airport
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Photos by Coke Bartrina
Guest #263. David Gissen: Infrastructure Preservation
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It may be the curators, preservationists, and historians—and not the engineers—that begin to recuperate…infrastructure both as a thing and an idea. This in turn, transforms what we understand both infrastructure and history to be.
Reactions #262. Mammoth: Appeal
The appeal of parainfrastructures (both as a class of architectural objects and as an alternative format for infrastructures) is not only aesthetic; it is also organizational, in that parainfrastructures operate primarily as organizational architectures.
Reactions #262. Rafael Gómez-Moriana: Parainfrastructures: A Gut Reaction
Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme #262 is provocatively titled “Parainfrastructures”, an invented word that is rich with ambiguity.
Reactions #262. Anna Tweeddale: Rethinking Excess
Might we imagine antiinfrastructure then as that which exceeds, rather than mimics or tames, the excessiveness of nature? Territory as a stage for artful seduction?
