![Occupy Wall Street, Day 60, November 15, 2011, after the police evicted protestors and cleaned the park. [Photo by David Shankbone]](http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/ci/ciolh18taz89mjaa.jpg "Occupy Wall Street, Day 60, November 15, 2011, after the police evicted protestors and cleaned the park. [Photo by David Shankbone]")
For if there is one abiding historical certainty it is that, eventually, things change. And they can be made to change. There is no such thing, however, as a revolutionary architecture. Nor does history ever simply start from scratch. Instead, post-revolutionary questions can be posed in advance to infrastructures that already exist.... to reinvent what used to be called housing, schools, hospitals, factories, and farms in a way that asks: What else must change for these changes to be possible? — Places Journal
Reinhold Martin argues that architects must plan for post-revolutionary conditions. A follow-up to his earlier essay for Places, "Occupy: What Architecture Can Do." View full entry »
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