The Avery Review stands with all those fighting, organizing, teaching, and writing for abolition—and, in architecture, with all those working against the white supremacy, settler colonialism, ableism, racial capitalism, and heteropatriarchy upheld in and by our field.
The essays in Issue 56 test the limits of the review as a genre: looking at and through places, methods, and books to envision and approach other ideas differently. Jay Cephas reads through Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s Race for Profit to deepen conceptions of racial capitalism; Marianela D’Aprile and Douglas Spencer reframe Manfredo Tafuri to envigorate unionization among architectural workers; Stefanie Hessler reviews the art and literature of an erotic ocean, riding in, on, and through its waves; Daniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting evaluate the possibilities and pitfalls of three legal instruments of forest sovereignty; and Dima Srouji excavates histories, and present-day realities, of settler colonial archaeology in Palestine.
Art after Liberalism
by Nicholas Gamso
Preservation, Sustainability, and Equity
edited by Erica Avrami
Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound
edited by Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, and Niloufar Tajeri
Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality
edited by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt
Proxemics and the Architecture of Social Interaction
by Larry D. Busbea
Superpowers of Scale
by Andrés Jaque
Preservation and Social Inclusion
edited by Erica Avrami
Ways of Knowing Cities
edited by Laura Kurgan and Dare Brawley
Projects currently underway include:
Deserts Are Not Empty
edited by Samia Henni
Aeropolis
by Nerea Calvillo