CONTENTS
The Editors Climatic Imaginaries 9
Earths
Dipesh Chakrabarty 21
in conversation with James Graham
The Universals and Particulars of Climate
Deborah R. Coen 34
Seeing Planetary Change,
Down to the Smallest Wildflower
Jacob Boswell 41
Notes from the Wasteland: Competing Climatic Imaginaries in the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape
Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy Gala Global Circus: A Climate Tragicomedy 52
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson 62
The Magical Ecology of Laudato Si'
Meredith Miller 68
Views from the Plastisphere:
A Preface to Post-Rock Architecture
Jeanne Gang
with Claire Cahan and Sarah Kramer Deep Mapping 80
Felicity D. Scott 90
Securing Adjustable Climate
Political Ecologies
Adrian Lahoud 111
Scale as Problem, Architecture as Trap
Neyran Turan 120
Measure for the Anthropocene
Emily Eliza Scott
Archives of the Present-Future: On Climate 130
Change and Representational Breakdown
Zeynep S. Akinci and Pelin Tan
Waterdams as Dispossession: 142
Ecology, Security, Colonization
Marion Weiss and Michael A. Manfredi
Evolutionary Infrastructures 150
Jesse M. Keenan
The Resilience Problem: Part 1 159
Kate Orff and Adam Sobel in conversation
Next-Century Collaboration between 163
Design and Climate Science
Saskia Sassen
A Third Space: Neither Fully Urban nor 172
Fully of the Biosphere
Ross Exo Adams
An Ecology of Bodies 181
Carson Chan
Cloud Formations: Climate Change 192
and the Figuration of Community
Corporealities
Heather Davis
Molecular Intimacy 205
Philippe Rahm
Conduction 212
Shantel Blakely
You Are the Weather: 217
Philippe Rahm's A Sentimental Meteorology
Dehlia Hannah and Cynthia Selin
Unseasonal Fashion: A Manifesto 222
Eva Horn
Air Conditioning: Taming the Climate as a 233
Dream of Civilization
Jorge Otero-Pailos
The Atmosphere as a Cultural Object 243
Phu Hoang
Can You Believe the Weather We're Having? 252
The Politics of the Weather Report
Encounters with Climate: 261
A Dossier of Architectural Precedents
with contributions by Stan Allen, Andreas Angelidakis, Diana Balmori, Deborah Berke, 11a Berman, Tatiana Bilbao, D. Graham Burnett, Felipe Correa, Keller Easterling, Edward Eigen, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski, Walter Hood, Li Hu, Bjarke Ingels, Ziad (amaleddine, Andres |aque, Lydia Kallipoliti, Janette Kim, Chip Lord, Aya Maceda, Felipe Mesa, Umberto Napolitano, Caroline O'Donnell, Chris Reed, Francois Roche, David Schafer and Im Schafer, Lola Sheppard and Mason White, and Paulo Tavares.
Enclosures
Amale Andraos
What Does Climate Change? (For Architecture) 297
Daniel A. Barber 303
The Form and Climate Research Group, or Scales of Architectural History
Pep Aviles 319
On Membranes, Masks, and Siegfried Ebeling's Environmental Raumkubus
Carolina Gonzalez Vives Dehydrated Architecture 329
May Ee Wong
The Crystal: Architecture Calibrating Climate Change for the Urban Future 339
Reinhold Martin 349
Risk: Excerpts from the
Environmental Division of Labor
Gokge Gunel 361
Inhabiting the Spaceship:
The Connected Isolation of Masdar City
David Gissen 372
The Appearances of the Letters of
the Hollywood Sign in Increasing Amounts
of Smog and at a Distance