2024-11-21T16:17:36-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/30231103/occupy-the-day-after Places Journal 2011-12-08T16:02:26-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ci/ciolh18taz89mjaa.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>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?</p></em><br /><br /><p> Reinhold Martin argues that architects must plan for post-revolutionary conditions. A follow-up to his earlier essay for Places, "<a href="http://places.designobserver.com/feature/occupy-what-architecture-can-do/31128/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Occupy: What Architecture Can Do</a>."</p>