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This past year numerous dramas have competed for our attention: sub-prime mortgages, banking meltdown, bailout, stimulus, pandemic, bankruptcy. The all-consuming effort to follow these events seldom leaves a moment to contemplate the explanations themselves. What is the stated dilemma, context or motive for any one of these problems? And most importantly, how does a problem’s formulation determine its proposed solution? Volume 20 is dedicated to the art of storytelling. It presents the storylines of current events and architecture to show that while the truth is important, so is the ability of fiction to elevate fact. Perhaps the best way to understand our era is through narratives that distort, pervert and animate reality?


Posted by Edwin Gardner on 29-07-2009
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2Editorial

Jeffrey Inaba
4Make Believe

C-Lab
8 Sleeping Beauty: The Rewrite

C-Lab
12 Character Development

C-Lab
14 All's Fair in Love and War

C-Lab
18 Hush Little Baby, Don't You Cry

C-Lab
21 Volume Asks PS 123 What They Read This Summer

C-Lab
22Tokyo Asleep

Denari, Neil
26Crises of Complexity

Joseph Tainter
29Crisis in Crisis: Biosphere 2's Contested Ecologies

Janette Kim and Erik Carver
34The Endless Vacation

Simpson, Deane
38Symbolic Remainder

McCarthy, Tom
40Design for the Apocalypse

McMorrough, John
43There's No Place to Roam

C-Lab
54The Promised Land

McLeman, Robert
56Imaginario Constructivo

Smiljan Radic (Arch) and Gonzalo Puga (Photo)
58Foreclosed Homes

Manaugh, Geoff
65Warren County Leaflet

81Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Thompson, Nato
82If You Go There Will Be Trouble, An' If You Stay There Will Be Double

Oswald, Andrew
85Yes Stories

Dean, Roger
92Age of Reason

Hardwicke, Catherine
95Facing the Crisis

C-Lab
96Staremaster

McKean, Dave
100 The Technology Narrative

C-Lab
110Liquid Pro Quo

Scott, Christopher A.
112Waterkeepers

Stein, Stephanie von
114China's Sustainability: Asynchronous Revolutions

Jun, Jiang
118Wish Upon a Star

C-Lab
120Welfairy Tales

Ingels, Bjarke
125Waves of Mermaid Mutilation

C-Lab
126International Style Heritage

Allais, Lucia
133Alibi: Isle de San Cristobal de Grout

C-Lab
145News Report

Lemann, Nicholas
148Fact and Friction

Rosen, Jay
150Letters From the Editor

Lapham, Lewis H.

2 Responses to “Volume #20”

  1. monster Says:

    is Imagining Recovery comp included in this issue?

  2. Edwin Gardner Says:

    no, alas it’s not in here - at first the theme was more oriented on ‘Crisis’ itself, but this changed in the process. If you’re wondering were (and if) the Imagining Recovery result will be published, contact C-Lab

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