DICHOTOMY 15: GROUND

This issue of Dichotomy explores the relationship between building and ground in both the most basic architectural sense I.e. the exchange between a building and its site and the broader cultural sense of the relationship of buildings and cities to their context. This is a particularly fascinating topic in a city such as Detroit because the demolition of thousands of buildings has created a unique tableau that suggests the creation of a new settlement pattern and a dramatic change in the relationship of architecture to the landscape. 

Contributors

Stephen Vogel: Intro

Jolie Kaytes: GEOTROPES

Martin Hogue: LANDING STRIP: EXPLORING THE GROUND LINE AS SITE

Ursula Emery McClure & Michael McClure: HETEROLOGOUS ASSEMBLAGE: A GUMBO PRACTICE

Doug Garofalo: NOTES OF WORK

Dan Pitera: MUTANT GEOGRAPHIES: SPECULATIONS ON THE URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS OF DETROIT

Julie Ju-Youn Kim: [INVESTIGATIONS IN] ELECTRORGANICLANDSCAPES

Merrill Elam, Hsin Ming Fung, Laura Hartman, Sheila Kennedy & Billie Tsien: ANTICIPATION + MEMORY: GENDER SPACE IDEOLOGIES

Karen Bausman, AIA, FAAR: INTERVIEW

The authors and interviewees were asked to respond to questions of the relationship between the edge of architecture and the edge of the landscape such as ‘what are the opportunities to re-script how we conventionally understand ground and building?”, or “as developments continue to blur the edges between city and suburb, where exactly is a middle landscape?” This critical dialogue has yielded fascinating results – no more evident that in the GeoTropes of Jolie Kaytes that knit together the articles and interviews. These poems speak to how people experience the ground and occupy the landscape.  

Team

Editors: Allison Bingham, Graig Donnelly 

Editorial Staff: Andrea Baird, Fred Klein, Matthew Prouty, Jason Wah, Jonathan Whri 

Faculty Advisors: Associate Professor Julis Ju-Youn Kim, Associate Professor Dan Pitera 

Graphic Designer: Graig Donnelly