Places Journal

How can we remake our discipline so that Black Landscapes Matter? It is time to tell different stories about landscape architecture.

On Monday 26 October at 4pm CT, architect, academic and author Lesley Lokko will present "Look Back in Anger," the next Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design + Places Journal lecture on equity in the built environment. Free and open to all. Register here: https://uark.zoom.us//4816014122/WN_hvjknBTUTJ20Rd9O2egi-g

For the past two years, photographer David Taylor has been documenting stories from the transnational zone between the United States and Mexico.

Join us and Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design on Monday 19 October at 4pm Central for a lecture by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi. Free and open to all. Register here: https://uark.zoom.us//4816014122/WN_hvjknBTUTJ20Rd9O2egi-g

Decades ago a high security prison for women deployed banal architectural elements to intensify a new regime of carceral terror that became known as the supermax unit. Adapted from Columbia GSAPP Books on Architecture and the City's new volume, Paths to Prison.

For designers, J.C. Chandor's elegiac film, "All Is Lost," is a persuasive parable about our collective struggle with the end of modernity, as the pseudo-stabilities of resilience and sustainability are giving way.

ONE WEEK LEFT! Places Journal and Princeton University School of Architecture are seeking proposals for the Places | Princeton Urban Imagination Prize for ambitious public scholarship on the theme of mobility justice. Apply by Monday 19 October.

Join us on Monday 12 October at 4pm Central for a lecture by SCI-Arc's Mira Henry on disruption and making design personal, presented by Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design and Places Journal. Free and open to all. Register here: https://uark.zoom.us//4816014122/WN_hvjknBTUTJ20Rd9O2egi-g

Abelardo Morell's enchanting and disorienting Camera Obscura images overlay the spectacle of public life upon the realm of private experience.

Join us and Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design for the first virtual public lecture this semester, presented by Sara Jensen Carr, on Monday 5 October at 4pm Central. Register to attend: https://uark.zoom.us//4816014122/WN_hvjknBTUTJ20Rd9O2egi-g

We're delighted to collaborate with Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design to present the Fall 2020 Virtual Lecture series on equity in the built environment! Join us on Mondays at 4pm Central throughout October and November. Free to attend, register now at: https://uark.zoom.us//4816014122/WN_hvjknBTUTJ20Rd9O2egi-g

As design scholars and students concerned with racial and social justice ferociously debate the content of syllabi, two reissued classics of New Deal literature, Black Metropolis and Modern Housing, deserve new attention.

Unlike a discriminatory law or a withheld opportunity, a race wall is solid, simple, right there at the end of the street.