This past year numerous dramas have competed for our attention: sub-prime mortgages, banking meltdown, bailout, stimulus, pandemic, bankruptcy. The all-consuming effort to follow these events seldom leaves a moment to contemplate the explanations themselves. Volume 20 presents the storylines of current events and architecture to show that while the truth is important, so is the ability of fiction to elevate fact. Perhaps the best way to understand our era is through narratives that distort, pervert and animate reality?
Writers:
Jeffrey Inaba, C-Lab, Denari Neil, Joseph Tainter, Janette Kim and Erik Carver, Simpson Deane, McCarthy Tom, McMorrough John, McLeman Robert, Smiljan Radic (Arch) and Gonzalo Puga (Photo), Manaugh Geoff, Thompson Nato, Oswald Andrew, Dean Roger, Hardwicke Catherine, McKean Dave, Scott Christopher A., Stein Stephanie von, Jun Jiang, Ingels Bjarke, Allais Lucia, Lemann Nicholas, Rosen Jay, Lapham Lewis H.
