While mathematics in architecture has historically referenced notions of order, proportion, and ideal form, the discipline of mathematics itself has shifted to encompass uncertainty, incompleteness, relativity, and chaos towards a situation in which truth itself is elusive. This move stems in part from an engagement with real phenomena, in which natural systems were shown to behave non-linearly and unpredictably. In architecture, while computational developments enabling dynamic and variable modeling have been subsumed into our culture of design and production, a new kind of idealism has emerged.  Formally prolific and inherently multiplicitous, this book proposes algorithmic truth and statistical outcomes over predetermined objectives; it signifies a retreat away from reality and back towards abstraction and simulation in the smooth space of possibility. Meanwhile, the consequences of uncertainty have pervaded our culture to its core. Recovering from the initial high of fractal and random geometrical proficiency, architecture is just beginning to re-embrace the underlying issues embedded within this contemporary mathematics: uncertainty, unpredict-ability, chance, recursion, wildness, and informality. Contributors: Cecil Balmond, Mario Carpo, Lily Chi + Adrian Lewis, Dana Cupkova + Kevin Pratt, Tom Fecht, Francois Roche, Jenny Sabin, Anthony Vidler and others.

Mathematics: From the Ideal to the Uncertain (The Cornell Journal of Architecture, No. 9)

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In distilling, the small amount of alcohol evaporated during the aging process is known as the angels’ share. at is, while lost to us, the alcohol does not cease to exist, but instead is given to ― or taken by ― the angels. Architecture’s own angels’ share―the notion of an absent and intangible other―has too been personi ed. From Genius Loci to Zeitgeist, the gure of the spirit is perhaps the most fundamental component of architecture, even before walls or columns. Whether phenomenal or conceptual, without this ickering spirit, one might say, there is no architecture. As technology enables the virtual realm to be inhabited in more everyday ways, the notion of another kind of spirit becomes more present yet more blurred. e digital, as architecture’s alternate and now ickering specter, skirmishes with architecture’s existing ghosts.

Cornell Journal of Architecture 10: Spirits (The Cornell Journal of Architecture)

This Is Not A Wall is conceived as an epic of one architectural entity’s lifespan, depicted through a unique collection of illustrated short stories. The entity in question is the temporary pavilion Party Wall, designed by CODA as the winning entry of the 2013 Young Architects Program organized by MoMA PS1. This Is Not A Wall recounts Party Wall’s complete 9-month lifespan, from its initial nomination in November 2012, through its design-build process, to its dismantling at summer’s end in September 2013. The central intention of the collection is to chronicle Party Wall’s unique contextual environment, and elucidate upon its role as a mediator of complex relationships amid the individuals, institutions, and companies to which it owes its existence. The experimental nature of this publication ― outside what is often practiced in the architectural monograph ― is to intertwine critical texts with personal accounts from a range of perspectives: in short, to consider a work of architecture as a performative endeavor built upon a full chorus of disparate voices. This Is Not A Wall’s aim is to craft a bookwork in the same spirit as the original act – by emphasizing various modes of language to tell a collective story, showcasing episodes with a range of durations, formalities, and orientations. In this way, the book accompanies a reader from Party Wall’s set to its strike, in both sickness and health, witnessing the changes of tack, pleasant surprises, unforeseen setbacks, and logistical successes that comprise any complex process of collaborative labor. This Is Not A Wall also works to frame Party Wall in a larger contemporary discourse. Concerns include: architecture and its correlation to installation; experientiality and public performance; and a reconsideration of the sign in architecture as it pertains to legibility and meaning. Longer, essay-style stories by architectural journalist Cynthia Davidson, art historian Lisa Pincus, CODA principle Caroline O’Donnell, among others, will punctuate additional story pieces MoMA curator Pedro Gadanho, MAXXI director Pippo Ciorra, architect Peter Eisenman, previous YAP winner Matthias Hollwich, alongside project participants and other observers – from PS1 janitors, to local skateboarders, to construction volunteers. By stressing Party Wall’s creative process as a distinct product of its context, spatial-temporal constraints, and collected voices, the book is equal parts an analytical handbook of the competition &amp; design process, an account of its evolving construction, and a poignant description of its lived experience. Through acts of reportage, recollection and remix, This Is Not A Wall assembles a total of 75 individual contributors in the form of 75 unique stories. Its length is 40,000 words. It is accompanied by approximately 150 images (halftone b/w, with selected color plates) – including inserts of process documentation, design drawings, and on-site photography. Stories can be read as individual stand-alone pieces; collectively, the stories form a larger documentary testament to one architectural and herculean effort. This Is Not A Wall opposes the notion of architecture as made by one master and appreciated by one audience. Through these many voices, one story will be told; a story that brings to light the various makers and thinkers that make any architectural work come into being and meaning.

This Is Not A Wall: Collected Short Stories on the MoMA PS1 Party Wall

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Anthropologists tell us that fear is an innate trait among most primate species, a principal aspect of learning-to-survive. At the same time, most of us primates seem equally adept at learning new fears, fears that are perhaps irrational and non-productive, and frequently enflamed by manipulative parties among our own species. Oddly, despite our theme, this may prove to be the most optimistic Cornell Journal of all. An awareness of fear has been known to inspire invention, imagination, and substantial change. Is the opposite of fearful--fearlessness perhaps?--a form of belligerence or ignorance, or is it found in determination or courage?--or is it perhaps a type of calm?--or of knowledge? Herein are some attempts at dispelling some of these fears.

Cornell Journal of Architecture 11: Fear (The Cornell Journal of Architecture)

ASSOCIATION/11 is a student-designed and edited publication that gathers work from students, faculty, staff, and alumni across Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning [AAP] in a single volume. An anthology of projects from artists, architects, and planners, ASSOCIATION/11 strives to highlight cross-disciplinary connections and reveal new relationships between the works produced by the three departments of AAP that we represent. Through the careful curation and presentation of yearly submissions since 2005, each volume serves as a record of the work produced by the current AAP community, as well as a source of inspiration for years to come.Years. Projects. Volumes. Since 2005, we the students of Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art, & Planning have brought to you ASSOCIATION -- the culmination of the voice of the student body. Once again, with the release of this publication, we invite you to view the work of the multi-talented, individual, and endlessly brilliant students, faculty, and alumni of this college. In 11, we observe the idea of parallel. We are all familiar with parallel lines: two or more lines in a plane that do not intersect or touch each other at any point. Parallel subjects can also be equidistant, similar, analogous, or also interdependent in tendency or development. For us at ASSOCIATION, parallel is meant to represent the three parallel pillars of Cornell AAP -- Architecture, Art, and Planning -- in equally important and considered ways. Not only does organizing projects in this way allow each project to be understood individually on its own, but it also allows one to draw parallels between the work, or as we like to call them, associations. Each project has been carefully categorized and interwoven, allowing you, the reader, to find projects by subject, by color, and of course, by association.

ASSOCIATION/11

Organized around a timeline that demonstrates the range of "presents" and "afters" we find ourselves contemplating, this volume of the Cornell Journal of Architecture considers our terrestrial occupations from a variety of real and imagined perspectives, from the prehistoric to the future-imperfect. It seems that―with increased urgency―we are more frequently finding ourselves grasping for an "after," especially as we face futures with apprehension. "After" exists at different scales of time and context: there’s after an instant, after a day, after an era. And each after contains both a conclusion and a beginning. This volume of the Cornell Journal of Architecture looks at a vast range of the "afters" we architects find ourselves confronting, and offers not just warnings, but solutions; not just reminders, but projections. Because, while we humans are obliged to stand squarely within the present, as architects we’re equally obliged to cast our work into a hereafter that can be only loosely understood. And then we can hope that, in the aftermath, our intentions bear some resemblance to their consequences. With Contributions of a vast selection of architects, artists, designers, historians, and geoscientists, including Peter van Assche, James Biber, Olalekan Jeyifous, Michael Murphy with Jha D Williams, Felix Heisel, Jacques Ferrier, Common Accounts, Meredith Miller and T+E+A+M, and many others, representing an extensive diversity of approaches for identifying techniques of transcending pasts and presents.

Cornell Journal of Architecture 12: After (The Cornell Journal of Architecture)

Sink Or Swim

Gregory Keeffe

Eduardo Cilleruelo Terán

Noor Abdulkhaleq

Klytaimnistra Avgetidou

Sijia Chi

Hyun Jun Cho

Jin Cho

Daria Yang Du

Xinyue Geng

Valentina Haro

Lulin He

Chiehsheng (Jason) Huang

Shhrruti Jain

Mingfeng Jiang

Ohjin Jo

Minjae Koo

So Min Lee

Tongbi Li

Haotian Ma

Thakan Navapakpilai

Eric Peters

Phasit Rattanachaisit

Sampriti Sheth

Aubrey Sterling

Weijia Sun

Haoyuan Wang

Xingyao Wang

Yunqin Wang

Ziqi Wang

Chuyi Wu

Fanghong Xu

Connor Yocum

Xiaobai Zhao

ASSOCIATION is a student designed and edited publication that gathers work from students, faculty, staff, and alumni across Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning in a single semi-annual volume. An anthology of projects from artists, architects, and planners, ASSOCIATION strives to highlight cross-disciplinary connections and reveal new relationships between the works produced by the three departments we represent. Through the careful curation and presentation of yearly submissions since 2005, each volume serves as a record of the work produced by the current AAP community, as well as a source of inspiration for years to come. 2020 has brought a wave of new changes to society and subsequently the field of architecture, art, and planning. Rises in social justice awareness, and new adaptations as a result of COVID-19 forced designers to figure out how to continue relentless creative efforts while dealing with social distancing, remote learning, and more transparent injustices in society. ASSOCIATION Volume 12 serves as a timepiece to record the work the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University has produced. How have the current social, political, and public health statuses altered the way designers think of and produce their work? A carefully curated collection of work across various design disciplines will seek to find answers to this question from the authors of the works as well as spark a internal discussion of the same matter from the reader. With Contributions of Samuel Price, Juan Lopez, Garnet Bernier, Marina Bernardi, Monet Shibata, Gabriella Melton, Landon Hale, Lara Carolan

ASSOCIATION/12

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