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Silicon Gallery by Aric Chen As artists embrace digital media, curators and architects debate how best to display virtual art in the physical world. ¡Viva la Renovación! by Jonathan Lerner Armed with foreign money and a socialist agenda, Havana forges a new approach to historic preservation--one that benefits residents as well as tourists. Game Boys by Jonathan Ringen Life after the dot-coms. A new game-development studio looks to carve out a niche in a fluid but competitive business. Automotive Overdrive by Adele Weder John Körmeling deconstructs car culture--and our anxiety over it--with fantastical inventions that celebrate mobility. I Spy by Lyle Rexer Photographer Jason Oddy's haunting images of the sanatorium-spas of the former Soviet Union capture communism's ambivalent embrace of modernism.
Dialogue Readers' letters and corrections. The Metropolis Observed Nigeria's design for democracy; bringing the Rural Studio to Manhattan; farewell Detritus Institute; don't fence Droog in; L.A. needs parks-- Portland doesn't; remembering Sarah Tomerlin Lee; disposable cell phones; the Wexner Center deconstructs; private parks in public places. Scan The way of the paperboy. Perspective by Akiko Busch The mysterious act of dowsing reveals some truths about the creative process. Enterprise by Ken Shulman The interior design industry gets a new tool to display samples--an interactive Web site. In Production Lorenzo Damiani's Flex system. Far Corner by Philip Nobel Some new ways of thinking about pragmatism in architecture. Productsphere Hi-Tech Textiles. In ReviewAlexandra Lange reviews On the Job at the National Building Museum and Workspheres at MoMA; Ken Coupland with our monthly list of Web sites. Up & Coming Upcoming events and conferences. Reference Page Links to people and places in this issue. Ben Katchor Maharajah Tower. |
