Volume 28, Issue 8
Boundary crossings: architectural confrontations with infrastructures of power
Deljana Iossifova & Doreen Bernath
Borders, boundaries, thresholds: those are key notions in an architect's conceptual toolbox. Architects are trained to think about the placement of borders, the definition of boundaries, and the formulation of thresholds. In fact, some may argue, in bordering lies the essence of architectural practice. The project of architecture is about drawing the lines between what is to remain on the inside and what is to be kept on the outside; it determines what is to be enclosed and intimate, and what is open and shared. The impulse to border and establish thresholds responds to the purpose of working with or against nature to ensure those on the inside are protected from the outside, the menace of the wild exterior. But our messy needs for entanglement with different spaces, times, and conditions of being have complicated and obscured, for better or for worse that is to be debated, the clarity of borders, boundaries, and thresholds in architecture. Not only our endeavours to connect with pasts, presents, and envisaged futures but also with multiple places, infrastructures, and technologies have propelled complex responses to projects of boundaries and boundary crossings. CONTINUE READING
Plan and elevation of the military outpost at Port Cockburn, Melville Island, in the extreme north of New South Wales, from a drawing by Captain Bunn, c.1829, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales, DG SV3.8/1
Jasper Ludewig
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Amarí Peliowski & Alicia Olivari
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Chrystala Psathiti & Kerstin Sailer
Tech Flats neighbourhood before construction of Techwood Homes, courtesy of Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Charles F. Palmer Papers, box 168, folder 3
Christina E. Crawford & Alessandro Porotto
​Renaissance centralised plan church, The Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter, 1481–1482, by Pietro Perugino, Wikimedia Commons, in the public domain
Pablo Martínez Capdevila
Auditorium of the Labour University of Cheste: (a) aerial view; compiled based on Bing Maps, 2019, and further elaborated by the authors, 2021
Carlos Lerma, Júlia G. Borràs, Jose Vercher, Ángeles Mas & Enrique Gil
