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Issue 068(published as 182)
BLUE INFRASTRUCTURE
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Engineers Draw What Already Flows
Pliny says painting began when a Corinthian woman traced her lover's shadow on a wall before he left for war. She saw what light made visible, then fixed it. Engineers inherit that first gesture: they draw what already flows, then claim they invented the system.
The Public Domain ReviewThe Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
Paintings illustrating Pliny the Elder's account of the origins of art.
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Flint's Pipes Worked; The Seeing Failed
Flint switched its water source in 2014 to save money; lead leached into eighty thousand homes. The pipes did not fail—the seeing did. Officials read spreadsheets where residents drank rashes and ruin, and no engineer's drawing showed whose children would test positive.
The Flint Water Crisis, Ten Years Later
A Conversation with Dayne Walling, Flint Mayor 2009–2015.
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Seattle Wrote Permits for Immigrant Gardens
Landscape architects watch how immigrants retrofit alleys into grey-water gardens and parking strips into rain channels. In 2018, Seattle planners wrote zoning amendments that recognized these systems. One discipline sees water move through neighborhoods; the other sees parcels that require permits. The argument is not subtle.
Latino Urbanism Is Better Appreciated By Landscape Architects Than By Planners
They understand that cities are not collections of zoning regulations, but living landscapes.
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Build What Bends Before the Flood Arrives
Weaving vessels for climates that have not yet arrived means testing materials that swell in flood, stiffen in drought, respond before policy can. The method is not predictive but elastic: build what bends when the rain you did not forecast arrives anyway.
Failed ArchitectureWeaving Vessels for Emerging Climates - Failed Architecture
Departing from the well-trodden paths of architectural education, Weaving Vessels is a class out of Central Saint Martins.
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Engineers Draw What Already Flows
Pliny says painting began when a Corinthian woman traced her lover's shadow on a wall before he left for war. She saw what light made visible, then fixed it. Engineers inherit that first gesture: they draw what already flows, then claim they invented the system.
The Public Domain ReviewThe Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
Paintings illustrating Pliny the Elder's account of the origins of art.
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Seattle Wrote Permits for Immigrant Gardens
Landscape architects watch how immigrants retrofit alleys into grey-water gardens and parking strips into rain channels. In 2018, Seattle planners wrote zoning amendments that recognized these systems. One discipline sees water move through neighborhoods; the other sees parcels that require permits. The argument is not subtle.
Latino Urbanism Is Better Appreciated By Landscape Architects Than By Planners
They understand that cities are not collections of zoning regulations, but living landscapes.
┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈│┃┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈│┃┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈┄─━━━━━┃┃━━━━━─┄┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈│┈┈┈┈┈┈│┃┈┈┈┈┈┈│┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈┃┈┈┈┈┈┈│┃┈┈┈┈┈┈┃┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┄─━━━┃━━━━━━┃┃━━━━━━┃━━━━━━─┄┈ ┈┈┈┈┈┃┈┈┈┈┈┈│┃┈┈┈┈┈┈┃┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈│┈┈┈┈┈┈│┃┈┈┈┈┈┈│┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈┄─━━━━━┃┃━━━━━┄┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈│┃┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈│┃┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈
Flint's Pipes Worked; The Seeing Failed
Flint switched its water source in 2014 to save money; lead leached into eighty thousand homes. The pipes did not fail—the seeing did. Officials read spreadsheets where residents drank rashes and ruin, and no engineer's drawing showed whose children would test positive.
The Flint Water Crisis, Ten Years Later
A Conversation with Dayne Walling, Flint Mayor 2009–2015.
┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈╱┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄╲┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈┈╱┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄╲┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈╱─────────────────╲┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈╱──────┼┼┼┼┼────────╲┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈╱───────┼┼┼┼┼─────────╲┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈╱────────┼┼┼┼┼──────────╲┈┈┈┈┈ ┈╱━━━━━━━━━┼┼┼┼┼━━━━━━━━━━╲┈┈┈┈ ╱━━━━━━━━━━┼┼┼┼┼━━━━━━━━━━━╲┈┈┈ ┃━━━━━━━━━━┼┼┼┼┼━━━━━━━━━━━┃┈┈┈ ┃━━━━━━━━━━┼┼┼┼┼━━━━━━━━━━━┃┈┈┈
Build What Bends Before the Flood Arrives
Weaving vessels for climates that have not yet arrived means testing materials that swell in flood, stiffen in drought, respond before policy can. The method is not predictive but elastic: build what bends when the rain you did not forecast arrives anyway.
Failed ArchitectureWeaving Vessels for Emerging Climates - Failed Architecture
Departing from the well-trodden paths of architectural education, Weaving Vessels is a class out of Central Saint Martins.