Exploring architecture as a form of concealment and obfuscation in engendering new ways of understanding, conceptualizing, and reshaping the world. Architecture is the perfect form of camouflage. As buildings recede into the background of everyday life, the myriad forces that shape our natural, social, and political landscapes hide in plain sight. Embedded within the spatial and material organizations of the built environment are ideas of value, hierarchy, and control that tilt the ground and influence perception in the name of endless competing interests.
Operating across multiple scales and mediums, architectural camouflage gives familiar form to obscure objectives. Design transforms and encodes our shared environments, from domestic domains to digital territories, through its material practices, aesthetics, and discourses. Immanent in the periphery, architecture's images are internalized as forms for understanding and reshaping the world. Camouflage, in turn, dwells in the architecture of our collective subconscious.
Latent within architecture's deceptions is a profound capacity to reflect the elusive intentions and surreal ambiguities of our ecological entanglements. In masking hierarchies and shifting sensitivities to what escapes perception, architecture can engender vital questions around the agency and significance of its world-making practices. Mediating with and within the background, architecture can awaken new modes of attention to material and social layers previously unimagined or hidden and engage directly with the mirrored frameworks that define reality.
This issue of
Perspecta considers the complexities and potentialities of architectural concealment, obfuscation, and mimicry; of the power inherent in architecture's expanding capacity as media. In the veiled extents of our physical and digital worlds, what is still not found?
Contributors APRDELESP and Xavier Nueno Guitart, Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann, Esther M. Choi, feminist architecture collaborative, Marianela D'Aprile and Douglas Spencer, Theo Deutinger and Christopher Clarkson, DESIGN EARTH, David Freeland and Brennan Buck, Linda Gordon, Noah Kalina, Dana Karwas, Andrew Economos Miller, M.C. Overholt and Alex Whee Kim, Trevor Paglen, Lukas Pauer, Nina Rappaport, David Sadighian, Matthew Soules, Jerome Tryon, Michael Young
探索建築作為隱藏與模糊化的一種形式，以孕育理解、概念化和重塑世界的新方式。
建築是完美的偽裝形式。隨著建築物逐漸融入日常生活的背景，塑造我們自然、社會和政治景觀的無數力量卻隱藏在明處。嵌入於建成環境的空間和物質組織中的是價值、階層和控制的觀念，這些觀念傾斜了基礎並影響了感知，以無盡的競爭利益之名。
在多種尺度和媒介中運作，建築偽裝賦予模糊目標以熟悉的形式。設計通過其物質實踐、美學和話語，轉化並編碼我們共享的環境，從家庭領域到數位領域。建築的影像在邊緣中內化為理解和重塑世界的形式。偽裝反過來又存在於我們集體潛意識的建築中。
建築的欺騙中潛藏著深刻的能力，能夠反映我們生態糾纏中難以捉摸的意圖和超現實的模糊性。在掩蓋階層和轉變對逃避感知的敏感度時，建築能夠引發關於其世界創造實踐的能動性和意義的重要問題。在背景中進行調解，建築能夠喚醒對先前未曾想像或隱藏的物質和社會層次的新注意模式，並直接與定義現實的鏡像框架互動。
本期的《Perspecta》考慮了建築隱藏、模糊化和模仿的複雜性和潛力；以及建築作為媒介的擴展能力中固有的力量。在我們物理和數位世界的隱蔽範疇中，還有什麼是尚未被發現的？
貢獻者
APRDELESP 和 Xavier Nueno Guitart、Ashley Bigham 和 Erik Herrmann、Esther M. Choi、女性主義建築合作組、Marianela D'Aprile 和 Douglas Spencer、Theo Deutinger 和 Christopher Clarkson、DESIGN EARTH、David Freeland 和 Brennan Buck、Linda Gordon、Noah Kalina、Dana Karwas、Andrew Economos Miller、M.C. Overholt 和 Alex Whee Kim、Trevor Paglen、Lukas Pauer、Nina Rappaport、David Sadighian、Matthew Soules、Jerome Tryon、Michael Young
Guillermo Acosta Navarrete is an architect based in New York and Mexico City and a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture.
Gabriel Gutierrez Huerta is an architect and educator based in New York and a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture.
Mari Kroin is an architecturally oriented creator and a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture.
