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Editor's Picks #231 Nam Henderson2011-10-02T20:55:50-04:00>2011-11-17T15:46:03-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/9r/9r9fwk74m7tzq19t.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Suzanne Labarre of Fast Company uses the term "Lady Parts" in a review of the self-designed Shanghai studio by/for Taranta Creations. Liebchen correctly points out "When its vaginal, its a "design crime." But Philip Johnson gets to hold his little Johnson/model of the AT&T building on the cover of time magazine and everyone's fine with it? <a href="http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1979/1101790108_400.jpg" target="_blank">http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1979/1101790108_400.jpg</a>"</p></em><br /><br /><p>
In the <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/21819085/contours-urban-justice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">third part of the</a> CONTOURS: feature <a href="http://archinect.com/people/cover/20580749/sherin-wing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sherin Wing</a>, talks about urban justice. Specifically the needs of those impoverished, living in our own urban centers often in what Sherin describes as "<strong>Segregated urban centers</strong>". Drawing on the work of <a href="http://www.spa.ucla.edu/dept.cfm?d=up&s=faculty&f=faculty1.cfm&id=251" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edward Soja, Distinguished Professor at UCLA’s Department of Urban Planning at the School of Public Affairs</a>, she goes on to argue that rather than "<em>limiting oneself to architecture-based volunteer organizations...real involvement could change the trajectory of our urban [in]justice. That requires working with community activists and leaders who are directly effected by what Dr. Soja insists must be recognized as discriminatory: location in space. Architects can work with community activists and leaders, as well as politicians, to re-vision and reshape our urban centers, precisely to offer the access and services Dr. Soja identifies.</em>" <strong>toasteroven</strong> suggest however that the real problem isn't a lack of architects interested in such work instea...</p>