Archinect
Marcy Monroe

Marcy Monroe

New York, NY, US

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TOURETTE JOURNAL #0 - WIDE OPEN

Tourette journal offered winning applicants the opportunity to curate one issue of the journal and contribute to the all-too-contemporary quest for relevancy within architectural discourse. At a time of collective and disciplinary crisis, in which architecture is looking outside of itself in order to redefine its boundaries, WIDEOPEN looked for intriguing questions rather than easy answers, challenging doubts rather than soothing certainties. WIDEOPEN challenges issues of authoriality within the discipline by soliciting a collective effort and foregrounding participation. The first issue of the journal, gathering the collection of accepted calls, will read as a crowd sourced manifesto of contemporary architecture. The whole structure of the journal will revolve around this first issue, expanding it and implementing its scope.

 
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Status: Competition Entry
Additional Credits: Co-authored with Lee Dykxhoorn, AIA