The Avery Review
Control Systems
The question of architecture’s (un)easy relationships with power and control has long been a bastion of critical engagement within the practice. Institutions, states, benefactors, and clients are both life force and antagonist to architects and those occupying the murky realm of spatial practice. For every wall that provides shelter is one that confines. Behind every aspiring techno-utopia is the tyranny of surveillance. And every liberatory way of being must overcome the strictures of norms and expectations. Each of the essays presented here takes a focused look at the architectures of control, questioning the uneven balance of power embedded in our environments and examining how systems become materialized in the world.
Innervisions, in the Avery Review 42 (October 2019).