ARQ 119 | American Territories / Territorios Americanos (April 2025)
Libre acceso / Open AccessStephannie Fell (Ed.), several authors
Softcover
20.6 x 27 cm | 160 pp.
Español / English
This issue opens ARQ’s 2025 editorial cycle: This is America, a trilogy that seeks to think the continent from a transnational perspective. American Territories proposes to understand territory not merely as a geographic delimitation, but as a hinge between human communities, more-than-human environments, and global power networks. In the face of climate crisis and territorial inequality, architecture—along with landscape and urban design—is posed here as a critical tool. The projects gathered in this issue explore new ways of dwelling, producing, and caring, from the Amazon to the Atacama Desert, from floating cultural centers to displacement cartographies. Through them, ARQ 119 poses a pressing question: how can we intervene in territory without replicating the extractive logics that have already compromised it?
Contents
Editorial: American Territories — Stephannie Fell
Essays and Projects
California Dreamin’: Roberto Burle Marx and the Tremaine Garden — Pablo Alfaro
Bio-factory — GRU.A
Babaçu Gatherers Reference Center — Estúdio Flume
Seasonal Forestry Archetype (Diploma Project) — Maryhoni Quispe Castillo
Building a Continent: MoMA’s Latin American Architecture Since 1945 Exhibition — Patricio del Real
Floating Habitats: La Balsanera and Santay Observatory — Natura Futura
Atlas of Displacement — Paulo Tavares and Laura Pappalardo
An Iconic Order: The Columns of Oscar Niemeyer — Ciro Miguel
Atacama Regional Museum — Max Núñez Arquitectos
Deposit in Caseros — moarqs
Opinion
The Climate of Education — Sebastián Cillóniz Isola
Collective Ownership Against Deforestation [in Spanish only] — Ana María Durán Calisto
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Softcover
20.6 x 27 cm | 160 pp.
Español / English
ISSN: 0716-0852 (print) / 0717-6996 (online)
This issue opens ARQ’s 2025 editorial cycle: This is America, a trilogy that seeks to think the continent from a transnational perspective. American Territories proposes to understand territory not merely as a geographic delimitation, but as a hinge between human communities, more-than-human environments, and global power networks. In the face of climate crisis and territorial inequality, architecture—along with landscape and urban design—is posed here as a critical tool. The projects gathered in this issue explore new ways of dwelling, producing, and caring, from the Amazon to the Atacama Desert, from floating cultural centers to displacement cartographies. Through them, ARQ 119 poses a pressing question: how can we intervene in territory without replicating the extractive logics that have already compromised it?
Contents
Editorial: American Territories — Stephannie Fell
Essays and Projects
California Dreamin’: Roberto Burle Marx and the Tremaine Garden — Pablo Alfaro
Bio-factory — GRU.A
Babaçu Gatherers Reference Center — Estúdio Flume
Seasonal Forestry Archetype (Diploma Project) — Maryhoni Quispe Castillo
Building a Continent: MoMA’s Latin American Architecture Since 1945 Exhibition — Patricio del Real
Floating Habitats: La Balsanera and Santay Observatory — Natura Futura
Atlas of Displacement — Paulo Tavares and Laura Pappalardo
An Iconic Order: The Columns of Oscar Niemeyer — Ciro Miguel
Atacama Regional Museum — Max Núñez Arquitectos
Deposit in Caseros — moarqs
Opinion
The Climate of Education — Sebastián Cillóniz Isola
Collective Ownership Against Deforestation [in Spanish only] — Ana María Durán Calisto