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TRACE Issues II and III are now in stock. Order here.



TRACE ISSUE III

$23




This issue spotlights the creative endeavors of 30 CED students featuring pieces from architecture studios, landscape architecture studios, architecture seminar, urban studies classes, and other personal projects by CED students. This issue dives into the heart of creation and process — exploring how designs come together, the decisions made, and what innovative processes and methods are being employed. How can we rethink or challenge our current practices? Join us in this critical discourse of architectural thought and practice.  


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TRACE Issue II: Utopia

$10
This issue showcases the creative visions of 8 CED students: three B.A. Architecture students, two B.A. Urban Studies students, one B.A. Land Arch student, and two M.Arch students.

This issue also includes six interviews with CED faculty: Neyran Turan @nyrntrn, Robert Christopher Glass, Zachary Lamb, Andy Shanken, Ryan Keerns @ryan.keerns, and Thomas Oommen.

It seems almost blasphemous for today’s architects to propose a “new utopian vision.” The failures of past utopian experiments seem self-evident, failures which us students of CED have criticized relentlessly. All utopian visions have a tendency to devolve into dystopian sufferings since the emergent behaviors of cities involve a near-infinite amount of complex subsystems that one single person cannot comprehend and predict. The complexity of humanity’s multifaceted existence means one single person cannot envision all possible needs.

Architects and designers often fall victim to this impossibility. Our projects are fallible due to unavoidable ignorance, and avoidance can be an easy escape that pulls on a subconscious desire to start from a tabula rasa, to erase all contexts. But what utopian vision is truly context-less? We criticize dystopias because we experience dystopias. The dystopian contexts which surround us give us new concerns and new urges to express, pushing us to imagine a better future.

Issue Two is everyone’s utopia.


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