Telesis 2019

Abstract

Front Matter: Telesis editor Emily Hays offers thanks to supporters, as well as an introduction to the issue. This section also includes the table of contents.

Editorial: The Telesis editorial team offers their thoughts "On Design Against," related to pushing, pulling and re-defining boundaries.

Interview: Telesis editor Emily Hays interviews consultant Rex Miller about mapping possibilities and adapting to future contexts.

Pendulum: Ben Decuyper asks "How do we combat our trend of thinking in a pendulum-driven manner?" and suggests that architecture students view the discipline as one of constant change, rather than a series of pendulum swings.

Timeless: Jose Nava encourages a sense of timelessness in the design process.

Use It: Zach Hicks encourages students to acknowledge their own sense of agency in the process of architectural education.

More: Errin McKnight describes how it feels to explore architecture journals in the library and not see Black women represented to a meaningful degree.

Re-Animating: Angela Person asks how built environments might be designed if we understand them as living organisms that co-exist with humans.

Ochpquebradas: Award-winning architecture firm ELEMENTAL describes a design proposal for a weekend home in Chile entitled the Ochoquebradas House.

Equal: Studio Asynchrome describes the important of questioning how global influence is constructed, whether physically or digitally.

Language: Evan Sack argues that, while drawings are representations of an architecture, writings can be used to generate an infinite architecture.

Imprint: Emily Homan argues in favor of designing buildings with a permeability between the indoors and outdoors and the ability for humans to leave an imprint.

See: Magdalena Schaffernicht contrasts an idealized version of the United States against an understanding of its complex shortcomings.

Ephemeral: Tanaka Kawondera illustrates and describes a nurturing act of architecture that instills a sense of place in dialog with the environment.

Surface: Yetti Obasade tells a story about Diamond, a woman who lives underground in order to survive on an otherwise uninhabitable Earth. For her, it's not a dystopia, but life as usual.

Growing: Haley Powell offers an illustrated poem that encourages designers to think beyond a human-centered perspective and to integrate design with the needs of native species.

Scooters: Daniel Giles Helm examines his response to the emergence of pay-by-the-ride scooters and asks how he can incorporate these feelings into his practice.