DICHOTOMY 21: ODDS

ODDS means finding critical links in places one has not looked before. To step outside of the ordinary, to defy the status quo, often provides the greatest reward if one is willing to take the risk. Indeed, choosing to give ODDS a home in Dichotomy proved to be a challenge. In the following pages, ODDS is a punk teenager, a super-object, a tickled image, digital intimacy. ODDS manifests itself in the seasons of urban development, in the charting of those movements, and even in the fluid geometry of a building.

Contributors

Perry Kulper: SPACE ODDITIES

Paul Pettigrew: MAKING STUFF

Erika Lindsay: SPOMENIK IN FLUX

Chelsea Alexander & Krysia Bussiere: PLAIN ANOMALIES

Nathaniel Hammitt: GRAND ADJUSTMENTS

ABF-lab: SHARED ARCHITECTURE

Corrie Baldauf: DIGITAL INTIMACY

Christopher Romano: RE-FORMING MODELS OF COLLABORATION BETWEEN ACADEMIA AND MANUFACTURING

Oliver Uberti: LONDON: THE INFORMATION CAPITAL

Jadzia Gajczyk: THE TEMPORARY PHENOMENON

Mandy Roos: INVASION OF THE FOOT CARRIER

Michael Den Hartog: WELCOME TO HONEYWELL!

David Parker: WHERE IS HERE?

Irina Voda: FLUID ARCHITECTURE

Elizabeth Grabowski: EVOLUTIONARY FUNCTIONALISM

The question becomes not “what is the piece of the whole?”, but “how is this a piece of the whole?”. Recognizing that everything is connected - even dissimilar things are connected by those same sinuous fibers of difference - ODDS posed many questions to us, and some of those we choose to present to you as well. If author Paul Pettigrew is right, that we truly learn through making, then approaching this journal as a puzzle to be put together is an apt challenge. If you can’t beat the odds, you might as well join them together.

Team

Editors: Julia Kowalski, Christopher Perkins

Business Manager: Bradley Kaminski

Staff: Chelsea Alexander, Evan Broske, Martyna Falloni, Michael Pfaff, Molly Redigan, Matt Rybak, Julia Schlau

Faculty Advisors: Tadd Heidgerken, Noah Resnick