Reactions #262. Ethel Baraona Pohl: Parainfrastructures
“¿Have you ever wondered where those lines come from… and where they go?”
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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?
Reactions #262. Rania Ghosn: Para-infrastructures
Quaderns Parainfrastructures contributes to the debate on architecture’s agency in relation to infrastructure, not least by exploring how the prefix –para differently qualifies the category “infrastructure,” and by extension the role architecture plays in defining or countering that.
