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32 fall 2014 weak systems
legacies and definitions Stephanie White Elisa Cattaneo Cameron Hu Yann Ricordel-Healy Ania Molenda building case studies Felix Wing Lam Suen Tom Martin
Weak systems, the death of heroics Weakcity. A text, a word, a topic Life and death in the open system
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The idea of a de-materialised dwelling in 1960s and ‘70s USA ‘Weak will open, strong is closed’ The legacy of Oskar Hansen
Indeterminate frames and open territories Surprises and good fortune. Small post-tensioned concrete bridges Weak systems and fluctuating contingencies, Venice as theatre There’s nothing to see here, Lead Pencil Studio
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Karianne Halse Lyndsay Leblanc
land and landscape Neeraj Bhatia Ruth Oldham Tim Cresswell
Deceptively weak: Arcadia invaded The Beckton Alp, towards a typology of the unused and unrecognised Desire lines
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found systems Joshua Craze Michael J Leeb Jennifer Davis Eduardo Aquino
Saving the bad new things Residual structures, inevitable ends Weight and weakness, Formlessfinder The soft surface of the city
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fragile urbanisms Rodrigo Barros Virginia Fernandez Rincon Will Craig
Sunset at the end of the urban age. Valparaiso’s struggle for place Underpinning informal urbanisms, the barrio and the rancho Urban policy, by stealth, Madrid
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Queer diaspora, making places in transition Paris for everyone, Enfants du Canal et PEROU Doppelgänger in the open, a Canal Street case study
Thomas Strickland Natalia Scoczylas Can Vu Bui
walking Dennis Keen
Walking Almaty I, access ramps Walking Almaty II, antennas, addresses Why? Why Not?
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Barbara Solomon
who we are
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