ARQ 121 | América utópica / Utopian America
(diciembre 2025)
Diamond Open Access Stephannie Fell (ed.), several authors
Softcover
20.6 x 27 cm | 132 pp.
English + Spanish
This is the third issue in ARQ’s 2025 editorial cycle, titled This Is America.
From the moment of its so-called “discovery,” América has been imagined as a place of possibility. The New World. A moniker built from afar and without: a land of promise, risk, abundance, and myth. These visions of untapped potential—entangled with conquest, displacement, and extractivism—cast the continent as a site where utopias might be realised, often at the cost of erasing its original inhabitants and ecologies. Utopian America explores this double condition: the persistence of the ideal and its erosion; its critical force and its historical burden. Amid modern ruins, tourist paradises, ecological prototypes, welfare infrastructures, and gestures of resistance, the issue proposes reading utopia not as a destination, but as a method in constant revision—a way of imagining and inhabiting the continent.
Contents
Essays, Works & Projects
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Softcover
20.6 x 27 cm | 132 pp.
English + Spanish
ISSN: 0716-0852 (print) / 0717-6996 (online)
Barcode: 7-808700-700793
Barcode: 7-808700-700793
This is the third issue in ARQ’s 2025 editorial cycle, titled This Is America.
From the moment of its so-called “discovery,” América has been imagined as a place of possibility. The New World. A moniker built from afar and without: a land of promise, risk, abundance, and myth. These visions of untapped potential—entangled with conquest, displacement, and extractivism—cast the continent as a site where utopias might be realised, often at the cost of erasing its original inhabitants and ecologies. Utopian America explores this double condition: the persistence of the ideal and its erosion; its critical force and its historical burden. Amid modern ruins, tourist paradises, ecological prototypes, welfare infrastructures, and gestures of resistance, the issue proposes reading utopia not as a destination, but as a method in constant revision—a way of imagining and inhabiting the continent.
Contents
- Editorial: Utopian America — Stephannie Fell
Essays, Works & Projects
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New Concepts of Space: Itinerary, Maps, and the Cartesian World — Fernando Luiz Lara
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Vegetal Machine: Tropical-Capitalist Utopias, Amazonian Extractivism, and Colonial Ecologies in the Factory-Territory of Fordlândia-Belterra (1927-1945) — Gonzalo Carrasco Purull
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Deserta Ecofolie. 2025 Venice, Italy. Prototype of a Minimal Dwelling in the Atacama Desert and Beyond — Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Pamela Prado
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Modernist Utopia Reclaimed: The CRUSP Residential Complex — Artur de Souza Duarte, Renato Cymbalista
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SESC Galería. 2025 São Paulo, Brasil — Ben-Avid, MMBB Arquitectos
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SESC Franca. 2012-24 São Paulo, Brasil — Anderson Fabiano Freitas, Bruno Valdetaro Salvatori, Cesar Shundi Iwamizu
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Shadows of Belaúnde’s Utopia: A Critical Analysis of La conquista del Perú por los peruanos — Solange de la Cerna, Camila Dextre, José Pastor
- A Dwelling of Resistance — Rayna Razmilic