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Call for Submissions: The Possibility of Architecture in the Age of Trump
United States Architecture News - Nov 24, 2016 - 14:16 13276 views
Anyone Corporation has called for submissions for its new issue Log 39, investigating new architectural era under the Presidency of Donald Trump. On January 20, 2017, Donald J. Trump will take the oath of office as the 45th president of the United States. In the wake of a vitriolic, often disturbing campaign, Trump’s first appeal for unity took the form of a reiterated pledge to revitalize America’s infrastructure.
''We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none. And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it,'' said Donald Trump.
Whether committed policy proposal or rhetorical bargaining chip, this invocation of building forces the discipline of architecture into a newly politicized light. Regardless of their political persuasions, architects and critics must define not only their own positions and practices in relation to this new political reality but also the very possibility of architecture in the age of Trump.
Log invites submissions of up to 500 words on the future of architecture, infrastructure, and criticism to be published in Log 39 (Winter 2017).
Deadline: Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Log 39 will be released in late February 2017.
Please submit texts to [email protected] after reviewing Log's submission guidelines.
Anyone Corporation is a New York-based nonprofit architecture think tank established in December 1990. Its purpose is to advance the knowledge and understanding of architecture and its relationships to the general culture through international conferences, public seminars, exhibitions, and publications that erode boundaries between disciplines and cultures.
Anyone Corporation is the publisher of ANY (Architecture New York) magazine (1993–2000), ANY books (1991–2000), and Log (2003–Present) and produces the Writing Architecture series (1995–present) with MIT Press.
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