Infrastructure

Networks of infrastructure, long a symbol of progress and technological innovation, have become as invisible as they are ubiquitous. Rediscovering infrastructure, recent projects have focused not on singular, monumental pieces of architecture, but on the creation of networks that incubate systemic change within. Aided by new urban theory and advancing technologies–and facing issues of funding, utility, politics, and public opinion–designers have been drawn to infrastructure by a desire to contribute architecture that performs.

A re-evaluation of the timeworn modes of practice and design, this issue will examine designers reclaiming infrastructure as an act of placemaking.

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