Mindful of our mission to promote new territories of knowledge, in this issue of ARQ, we have focused on presenting architectural explorations of new grounds—whether through projects, essays, or research—publishing a range of readings and critical inquiries into a subject that, despite its age, is far from exhausted.
From discussions on the value of land (by Martin, Moore, and Schindler, as well as Montealegre) to conceptualizations of it (by Celedón and Torrent); from territorial disputes (in Weizman and Jaque) to design interventions on the territory (by González and Design Earth); from strategies to expand public land (by Carreño and Sartori) to the possibility of publicizing different grounds (by Herzog & de Meuron); from the subsoil as a territory of geopolitical disputes (in Bélanger) to the subsoil as a repository of ancestral wisdom (in Jorquera and Soto); from modified ground as a new program (by Mayoral and Murray) to modified ground as a new typology (by OMA). All these approaches open up a world of possibilities that expand the classical understanding of ground as the support for architecture, whether structural, existential, or symbolic.
- Photographic Portfolio: Architecturized Grounds. Naturalized Grounds / Philippe Blanc
- Editorial: Looking at the Ground / Francisco Díaz
- Readings, Works and Projects
- The Ground as Forensic Evidence / Eyal Weizman. Interviewed by Alfredo Thiermann
- Plasencia Clergy House / Andrés Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation
- Defining Inequality / Reinhold Martin, Jacob Moore, Susanne Schindler
- Shenzhen Stock Exchange / OMA
- The State as an Agent of Urban Land Expansion / Pía Montealegre
- Institutional Building for the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism, O’Higgins Region / Mario Carreño, Piera Sartori
- Traces / Alejandra Celedón
- One to One / Form and Representation Workshop I
- The Ground in the Dispute for Urban Reconstruction. Chillán, 1939 / Horacio Torrent
- Georama of Trash / Design Earth
- The Subsoil of the San Francisco Church / Natalia Jorquera, Catalina Soto
- The Ground as a Program / José Mayoral, Kevin Murray
- Extraction / Pierre Bélanger
- Food Network / Agustina González Cid
- Expo Milano 2015 / Herzog & de Meuron
- Debate / Marcial Echeñique, Elke Schlak, María Castillo, Sebastián Gray
- News
