While infrastructure is a prerequisite for any modern notion of "civilization," we rarely notice how much we depend on it. Perhaps the fact that we only interact with its interfaces makes it go unnoticed, to the point that we only remember its existence when it fails or when, at the end of the month, we have to pay the bill.
This invisibility makes it difficult to address from an architectural perspective. Perhaps as a way to "architecturalize" it, Keller Easterling refers to it as "matrix space"; this highlights that, even when intangible, infrastructure is indeed located in space and, as a matrix, always operates in interconnection with others. In that space between unquestioned use and management lies a space for critique that can be occupied by architecture. The projects, essays, and research in this issue of ARQ are situated there, and from that position, their contribution consists of expanding that space.
- Photographic Portfolio: The photography of Jack Ceitelis / Carla Francheschini
- Editorial: Calculatedly Late / Francisco Díaz
- Readings, works, and projects
- On Infrastructure / Reinhold Martin, interviewed by José Lemaitre and Pedro Correa
- Bío-Bío Regional Theater / Smiljan Radic, Eduardo Castillo, Gabriela Medrano
- A Kind of Strange Circus / David Caralt
- Infrastructure for Selective Porosities / Maite Borjabad
- Threshold Infrastructure / Pelin Tan
- Reef Metropolises / Amaia Sánchez, Jorge Valiente, Gonzalo Valiente
- Kaukari Park on the Copiapó River / Teodoro Fernández Arquitectos
- Contain, Restore, Connect / Osvaldo Moreno
- From Infrastructure to Landscape / Fulvio Rossetti
- The Second Track / Nicolás Verdejo
- Two Transmission Substations / UMWELT
- C&T Building / José Rosas, Philippe Blanc
- The Building's Infrastructure / Renato D’Alencon, Claudio Vásquez, Pedro Pablo De la Barra
- Arturo Merino Benítez Airport / STANTEC + Amunátegui Barreau Arquitectos
- Debate / Pablo Allard, Camila Cociña
