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Guest edited by Melodie Yashar and William Richards
The next frontier of architecture may not be on Earth. As lunar and Moon-to-Mars development moves from speculation toward reality, architects are increasingly asked to design where humans will live beyond our planet—habitats that must contend with radiation, extreme conditions, and closed-loop systems of air, water, and waste. Yet survival alone does not make a habitat: the more fundamental question is what kinds of human worlds these systems will produce. Space is a terrain of contradiction, a site of scientific discovery and cooperation as well as geopolitical competition and commercial speculation, and off-world architecture risks carrying forward terrestrial patterns of inequality and extraction if treated as mere engineering. The fourth in a lineage of future-facing A—D issues, this volume asks how the pressurized cylinder might become a genuine habitat—one that enables privacy, belonging, and care—and turns the discipline's critical gaze upon itself. It examines not only how and what we might build off-world, but the political, ecological, and social terms on which—and for whom—those futures are built.
CONTRIBUTORS
Olga Bannova, Tibor Balint, Kate Balug, Marie-Pier Boucher, Marc Cohen, Nicholas de Monchaux, Xavier de Kestellier, Lydia Kallipoliti, Neil Leach, Monika Lipinska, Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger, Jeffrey Nesbit, David Nixon, Barbara Imhof, Lynn J. Rothschild, Fred Scharmen, Brent Sherwood, Madhu Thangavelu, Justin Walsh
Guest edited by Melodie Yashar and William Richards
The next frontier of architecture may not be on Earth. As lunar and Moon-to-Mars development moves from speculation toward reality, architects are increasingly asked to design where humans will live beyond our planet—habitats that must contend with radiation, extreme conditions, and closed-loop systems of air, water, and waste. Yet survival alone does not make a habitat: the more fundamental question is what kinds of human worlds these systems will produce. Space is a terrain of contradiction, a site of scientific discovery and cooperation as well as geopolitical competition and commercial speculation, and off-world architecture risks carrying forward terrestrial patterns of inequality and extraction if treated as mere engineering. The fourth in a lineage of future-facing A—D issues, this volume asks how the pressurized cylinder might become a genuine habitat—one that enables privacy, belonging, and care—and turns the discipline's critical gaze upon itself. It examines not only how and what we might build off-world, but the political, ecological, and social terms on which—and for whom—those futures are built.
CONTRIBUTORS
Olga Bannova, Tibor Balint, Kate Balug, Marie-Pier Boucher, Marc Cohen, Nicholas de Monchaux, Xavier de Kestellier, Lydia Kallipoliti, Neil Leach, Monika Lipinska, Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger, Jeffrey Nesbit, David Nixon, Barbara Imhof, Lynn J. Rothschild, Fred Scharmen, Brent Sherwood, Madhu Thangavelu, Justin Walsh
