Building Assemblages - e-flux

Editors Nick Axel, Erin Besler, Nikolaus Hirsch, Julia van den Hout

Contributors Chandra Laborde, DK Osseo-Asare, Luuk Smits, Ann Lui, Jesse LeCavalier, Erin Besler

If buildings are contingent and relational, perhaps we should be more interested in how they’re held together (or how they come apart), and what’s revealed in the process. Assemblages confront what ideas of totality usually eclipse: not just the forest but the trees.

Building Assemblages is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and Art Omi within the context of its exhibition “Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts.”

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7 essays

Participation Points

Erin Besler

Barn raising has long served as a cultural shorthand invoked to extol virtues of mutual aid and premodern communitarianism, a symbolic reference for an event where neighbors come together to build together.

Towards Amoral Non-Fungibility

Jesse LeCavalier

While the global construction industry rapidly pursues total interchangeability, being open to the less pure aspects of this reality can make space for other trajectories.

Promises, Promises

Ann Lui

If this guy and I found ourselves sitting next to each other on the train, we would assume that we were complete strangers. There would be no way to know that we were, in fact, bound by paper through multiple agreements.

Fleeting Frames of Labor

Luuk Smits

As younger generations equipped with smartphones enter the construction industry, social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok are becoming informal stages for workers to document their craft.

Storehouses for Life

DK Osseo-Asare

Barns bring people together. They also bring people closer to nature.

Building Ecofeminist Values: The Octagonal Goat Barn at T’ai Farm

Chandra Laborde

After driving for more than three hours north on the CA-128 from San Francisco, a winding highway through old-growth redwood groves and densely foggy mountain ranges, the scenery opens to the striking blueness of the Pacific Ocean, picturesque cliffs, and sculptural rock formations.

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Erin Besler, Julia van den Hout, and e-flux Architecture

Building Assemblages is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and Art Omi within the context of its exhibition “Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts.”

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Architecture, Collaboration, Community, Social Change

Building Assemblages is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and Art Omi within the context of its exhibition “Staging Area: A Barn Raising in Two Parts.”

Contributors

Erin Besler Participation Points
Jesse LeCavalier Towards Amoral Non-Fungibility
Ann Lui Promises, Promises
Luuk Smits Fleeting Frames of Labor
DK Osseo-Asare Storehouses for Life
Chandra Laborde Building Ecofeminist Values: The Octagonal Goat Barn at T’ai Farm
Erin Besler, Julia van den Hout and e-flux Architecture Editorial

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